DominiqueBray opened this issue on Jul 08, 2006 · 3 posts
DominiqueBray posted Sat, 08 July 2006 at 7:12 PM
Hello
I am about to buy Moho but I just saw a light version of the famous Toon Boom at the same price. So now I hesitate.
Here is how I work :
I create background landscapes mixing numerical painting and a little 3D. I make all the animation of important characters by hand, on paper, then scan and colorize. Then I add some vectorial additional animations to get the video looking less static, and 3D animations (particles, fire,...). For some certain scenes, I put some 2D plans in a 3D world, in order to get the camera doing moves a pure 2D can't do.
I also start a little silly series, just for laughing, with very simple cutout graphics.
So, people who know these two softwares, which one do you think I should choose ? What are good things in one that is not in the other ?
Here is what I think of the several animation softwares I met. Toonz and US Animation are far too expensive. Creatoon and The Tab are cool but only for cutouts. Toon Boom has a good reputation but, first the videos I saw are disappointing, and I do not know if the Express version is not only a toy. DigiCel FlipBook looks great, but I am not sure it meets my needs. Moho looks the best for me but I am suspicious because other people do not seem to think it is a serious software.
I am open to any advice and comment.
Dynamo posted Tue, 11 July 2006 at 9:40 AM
Toon Boom has a rotating wheel (much like traditional Animators used for drawing) this makes it easier to draw in than flash. I don't know about express but the regular toon boom has something akin to lipsyncing to make the animation of speech easier.
Can't say about Moho I've never seen anyone using it to ask.
dueyftw posted Sat, 05 August 2006 at 12:38 AM
I have gotten side tracked over the last few weeks and have been playing with the demos versions of both. If your going to do just 2d I think you should try and then buy both. Moho is 99 dollars. Toon Boom studio is 299. Moho has bone rigging the allows you to animate charters fast. Toon Boom has a 3d space and pegs to move things about in that space. If you export charters in a png file format with alpha channel, then import into Toon Boom with backgrounds and fore ground objects. You now have a very powerful 2d animation setup for only 400 dollars.
Don’t bother with express. It has a memory leak in the program and will crash all the time. The studio has fixed the bug.
Dale