It really boils down to this: OpenToonz is free in addition to being professional & powerful however it is not designed in a user-friendly way at all and you’ll have to find your footing yourself.
Moho pro software software#
Or you can get yourself a free professional animation software with every tool in the book, but with a less intuitive and easy user experience and that you would be willing to put time and effort and many YouTube videos worth of time to learn and master. And where you can also find ‘beginner mode’ to ease you in the process.
If you are a beginner animator, you have two options either spend around 60 dollars on a software that has all the tools except for some options that are limited, where you can explore and work a software that is extremely user friendly and intuitive.
Wrong! There are no winners here, but rather you would have to decide for yourself depending on what you need, what you could afford and other factors. Okay this is the part where we tell you who wins, right? OpenToonz, on the other hand, has many tutorials that can help you, Moho too but not as abundantly as OpenToonz, as you know how people gravitate to using cost free software more than ever. This gives Moho the crown, as Moho is paid software, the UI and UX has been well thought out and had the user in mind first and foremost. It’s because perhaps the mindset of making it was towards animators who were already familiar with the software and just needed more tools that were custom made for them, not with user interface and user experience in mind. Since OpenToonz was custom made, it is easy for it to fall into the trap of “ wow this tool is amazing but why was it hard to find and buried deep within the software?”.
Moho pro software update#
OpenToonz isn’t completely drowned by this as it had an update that made it look a lot more traditional. However, Moho wins over OpenToonz in terms of interface, as right of the bat, Moho is set in a traditional layout. Image Source: įor any software, there is a learning curve one way or the other, whether we like it or not, but a new beast always requires attention and time to learn. If you think about the fact that this software is custom-made and used by Ghibli for one of the most legendary animation movies, well, the deal is pretty sweet. The general consensus is that this software has every tool you’ll need, and even tools you would be paying thousands for, but it’s all free and the catch is you’ll need tutorials to be able to figure everything out and find your footing. In addition to effect nodes, interpolation, and FX schematics, OpenToonz has an endless sea of animation tools, pretty much anything you would need as an animator, and then some. This can be super helpful in speeding up your animation process. This applies to OpenToonz brushes you can use, for example when you pick a certain brush for your drawings on a vector level and then want to switch to the raster level, you would have to use the other brushes made for raster.Īnother option in OpenToonz is the key frame tool, which allows for a quick creation of several frames. OpenToonz works in an interesting way: it separates your raster and vector options in what it calls “levels” you will not be able to draw with vector and then immediately draw in raster, you would have to change to the raster level.
The software has a variety of brushes in raster a lot of which resemble Krita and Photoshop’s, a good old trusty text tool, color selector, vector or raster options, shape, and line editors, onion skin, rigging tools. The default project is ‘sandbox’ and it’s basically used for you to try things out and experiment. When you first open the software, one peculiar thing about it is that it works with ‘projects’ so that if you are working on multiple animations they will be saved under separate ‘project’ labels.
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