How to create arm and leg rigs using pin bones.

This is a tutorial on using pin bones while rigging arms and legs that are able to move with a bit of force perspective.
This tutorial was inspired by the work of the KZbin user MoeU33.
CHECK OUT HER PAGE AND SUBSCRIBE!
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Also, Check out Production Crate here: productioncrate.grsm.io/jcqpf...
It's a great resource for special effects that you can use in MOHO as well as a big collection of audio tracks and sound effects that you can use in your projects.
Most of her earlier tutorials are not in English but she's starting to do some of them in English now but even so, check out all of her tutorials as they are great to follow along!!
This technique I created is a direct result of watching one of her arm tutorials and although I could not figure out all of the amazing things she was doing, I was able to come up with a simplified version of it that I think is going to work extremely well!
So this rig shows you how to use pin bones instead of bone rotation to crate arm and leg poses the BIGGEST PART THOUGH is that you can move them and create force perspective, meaning they can be foreshortened without having to change the artwork.
This is a big deal because it opens up the possibility to create so many more poses and will make it much easier to make my characters sit or face forward with very little work.
It will also make it easier to do body-turn poses.
Anyway, check it out and let me know what you guys think.
Sorry for being away for so long. Been a really funky couple of years but I'm trying to get back in the groove of things!
Hope you all are doing well!
I'm going to make a simple base character with this type of rig setup and place it my gumroad store soon as well.
gum.co/UdYHG

[@cYrusplays6]

Finally he remembered that he has a channel

[@abundantslife]

i really miss Poptoogi himself.. the human💙. long time and another great tutorial

[@geoi88i]

yea is he ok? where is he, do you know?

[@mikesbruv]

me too, kinda wish we could message him

[@mcandler_the_unscottish]

This is a phenomenal breakthrough. The limbs have been a pain for turns and just perspective. Now I can do fore shortening. Thanks bruv.

[@joelmayerprods]

Awesome technique! Thanks so much!

[@CartoonConnect]

This is dope!!!

[@midiotsavant]

Great tutorial. Clear and well paced. Thank you.

[@kepparedha9449]

I knew you will be back ♥️♥️ great tutorial

[@KarlToonUK]

Brilliant stuff! Keep 'em coming.

[@bentheafrican]

Welcome back Poptoogi and nice tutorial. Waiting for more

[@CookieMangler]

This was great! Thanks for making this video.

[@WeeklyComedian]

Thank you for this, I had just been watching the original tutorial and was in way over my head!

[@rickevertsz]

It's a shame that you had to stop making these tutorial videos. This is SO clearly explained. I now understand the mechanism that makes this technique work. Thanks!

[@mikesbruv]

this is an awesome tutorial, thanks heaps for this @Poptoogi your channel has been great for my learning, appreciated

[@FemiKolawole]

your explanation is just so good, God bless you

[@rezakeykha4882]

Please post more videos about this version of Moho

[@erosbigglesworth9835]

Your videos are, as usual, the easiest to follow which is great BUT they are so informative!! In the past few years I have learned 90% of Moho via a Subscribe to your Channel! This Pin Bone/TGT Bone technique is a @$#%! game-changer!! Please keep them coming!!

[@Nofembre]

This is next level for me, nice dude

[@punkrockcartoons6955]

This is a fantastic tutorial, it has transformed the way I rig my musician characters, especially the drummers, whose arms need to be at a lot of different angles.

[@KilianMuster]

I'll have to re-rig all my main characters. This is awesome. Will start implementing this maybe even mid production in ep. 3 of Phungus & Mowld, it's just such a game changer!

[@PupiToonic]

This is very helpful! Thank you

[@newoutletanimation]

Dude..... MoeU33 is a wizard

[@yitzharos]

Thank you!! sooo super helpful

[@jojomagwaling9200]

thanks for this video, hope to see your another video regarding how to fix those sleeve

[@vunguyenvan5457]

my online teacher, welcome back

[@rocky53204]

Fantastic! (as usual!)😊

[@cayzdog]

Thank you very much, you helped me a lot!

[@AkersTimothy]

Welcome back!

[@abdulkadirsaninafysson2918]

I am speechless. I just saw your comment after MoeU33 arm rig tutorials and replied you with an appeal to kindly let us know when you released your version of the topic. Voila! I thought i will not do you justice if i can imagine you spending 2 months without releasing anything in that respect. I was right! here we are with your life changing tutorial. I cant thank you enough.

[@The7thAdam]

Welcome back OG!!!

[@twoodakateresachallender3518]

Thank you for this!

[@ayatahmed1960]

welcome back

[@official_Chesterlo]

Really interesting. I'm just coming from after effects to Moho. Been using after effects for 8 years and have alot of characters rigged. But I decided to try Moho because after effects take a lot of memory and lags a lot. And now i noticed there is more you can do with Moho interms of bones.

[@m.hassan2518]

Thank you, the video was very useful

[@sheriffawzi764]

Thank you so much!

[@davestofka4811]

This is an amazing technique. Thank you for the tutorial! Have you happened to figure out a way to foreshorten the sleeve as the pin bones are moved closer together?

[@tchagolago]

So amazing!!! I'm used to toomboom but I was thinking about doing some testing with Moho and this is the kind of thing I was after and still haven't found any way to do it in a good way. Thank you so much for sharing this technique!

[@erosbigglesworth9835]

Been using Toon Boom also and it is great in what it does (frame by frame). I love Moho for the ease of use lol Harmony is so "professional" aka difficult learning curve

[@tiredofliars]

@Poptoogi, if you Hide Controlled Bones, you do not have to bother selecting them. @23:20

[@raol635]

Thank you.

[@Raven5790]

Holy Cow.. the shit I'm been waiting 4 so long!! Really Thanks!! Amazing tutorial!!

[@hojjatshafiei3892]

ohhh Poptoogi is here😍😍😍

[@passilvanioferreira823]

poptoogi this video help me much, thank you.

[@FemiKolawole]

Awesome 🤩

[@user-qd5ik1fx4u]

Thanks Brooo!

[@freirecomicbookartist5030]

Thanks guy.

[@rocky53204]

Fantastic! Donated to Poptoogi Patreon.😁

[@TheGeordieNerd]

Miss your videos dude, moho king

[@tiredofliars]

I am becoming to appreciate what can be done with pin bones. I just strung seven of them together, made them independent, and then added bones with dynamics to those pin bones, then I bound hair groups to the attached bones, then did the same for the other side of the head. Now my character has hanging hair that drops on the side her head is dropping and rises on the opposite side. I also limited the rotation of the higher pin bones, which keeps the hair from falling across the face, as if it had depth, but left the bottom ones unrestricted, which gives a great hair bounce and the effect of length.

[@The7thAdam]

This sounds really complicated 😂 please make a video

[@mcandler_the_unscottish]

This sounds exciting. Yes please post a video.

[@tiredofliars]

@@mcandler_the_unscottish ok, I did kzbin.info/www/bejne/paDYk2VqZ9qmeNk

[@sunmoon559]

I hope you will give me more instructions on how to flexibly move my hand forward or back while animating, for example, when animating a character's dance, thank you.

[@eldarreshitov6109]

please write how you can increase the size of the bones?, because they are very small

[@habeshacartoon]

big fan. can we edit pervious work

[@sunmoon559]

perfect

[@animesvideo]

muito top amigo

[@tuananhdo5470]

I really like your way of making bones. but I'm still wondering about using this method for the legs, because I can't attach a target to it. If you know, can you share?

[@eldarreshitov6109]

thanks for the lesson!, you can make a video where, when the bone moved, the face looked at the bone?

[@KilianMuster]

@Poptoogi So I've been trying this with one of my characters and it's awesome, but there seems to be no way to lock the hands in place for cases where they e.g. lean both palms on a desk, or grab on to something. If you reparent the wrist pin bones in the timeline they seem to change angle and twist everything up in a weird way. If you simply don't barent the wrist bone to the arm rotation bone, wrists will always stay in place, but then you can't rotate the whole arm only the upper part, and lose the nice circular motion capability. Have you found a solution to that problem?

[@mamitianarandria6887]

And you can make a rig with on /off on parenting the arm pin bones parented to the rotation bone in order to simulate IK/FK siwtch controller..by using smart bones, with the legs too I guess. I will test if what I have in mind will work.

[@KLOAKUS-FREEKUS]

Good 👍

[@esportlegendstv118]

What panel did you have under your tools? I'm curious

[@amandah2995]

Nice video , Please make tutorial on hoops character coach

[@Saso2333]

Can u make a video on rotoscoping in moho for like dance moves or more realistic character movement

[@gamixccc5117]

Can I download this carachter? If you have a pay system for that or somthing tell me, thanks for youre work!

[@jjb5142]

Can I use pin bone in the older version please? Anime Studio 11

[@DungNguyen-FatRacoon]

can we make this work with image rigging and warp layers ?

[@DangerAware]

Would Moho take a suggestion from you? I noticed that there was a point where you wanted to align two different layers, but when you do, you also have to first align their grids. If there were a screen overlay that could be brought up with a button, that put concentric circles and squares, and a center target, that does not move with ANY layer. It would make things much easier, especially when changing a layer scale, changes the layer grid scale also.

[@Poptoogi]

That's a great idea. The MOHO community is really good at taking suggestions and it's now owned by the original creator of the program and another super passionate artist and animator so I'm sure they would take in the advice. I'll have to check and see but someone might have made a script for that as well. If I find anything out I'll post it on a video. (Gotta get back into the groove though. Been soooooo long since I've posted anything!) :)

[@juliannguyen5558]

​@@PoptoogiHi I followed your guide but I don't know why after I rigged, when I chose the manipulate bone tool, didn't do anything yet but all the bones would move a little bit together and the arms look a little bit deformed. I don't know why. Please help me 🙏

[@jackochan]

How would you increase the size of a limb in foreshortening if you wanted to?

[@jro7385]

I still don't get how to use pin bones does I ha e to be patented a certain way besides targeting, ect. My bones have a target but. Still Don't stay put. Is there a step by step process?

[@eskonsta]

Это было супер даже с машинным переводом! 👍

[@tendotoon6244]

How do you animate the arm to go in front of the body

[@tomybrek1869]

why can't my character's hand bones move when connected to the body? please answer

[@mirbeibarys1330]

wow

[@MohamedMahmoud-wg6iu]

Please we need full tutorial in moho ..If it is not a burden on you

[@spammail3914]

can anyone help. when i connect the arm to the shoulder it locks the arm follows the shoulder body. but the are is frozen.

[@spammail3914]

i was trying to use z and not t to move the pin bones

[@Nofembre]

I got the answer, if the pin bone already parent to the shoulder bone, we cannot use the manipulate bones (z) again to move it, the tool that can move it is transform bone but click it at the pin bone, thats it dude

[@kepparedha9449]

Can you make a tutorial on how to make Cape for Superman

[@sanya_studio]

how do you ad ik to that?

[@agungwidi799]

MoeU33

[@MEMEMEME-fm7ep]

I would love to hire you to re-rig some of my characters. Do you freelance?.

[@jjb5142]

It's been one year already since you've heard from you POP, make a sign please. According to me this is this best method to rig a character but the only problem with it, how to get the feet planted in the ground?

[@syaanarmist5643]

Can you please make a tutorial on how to make homelander or Superman on Moho animation...😟

[@Poptoogi]

I can try but that would be more frame by frame animation.

[@fabiomaciel1576]

Is there a way to use this method with target bones to,i tried but can't make it work 😩

[@Poptoogi]

You should be able to do the same thing with regular bones instead of pin bones if you have an older version of MOHO/Anime Studio Fabio. I'll se if I can put up an example for people to look at and use on my gumroad store when I get a chance!

[@fabiomaciel1576]

@@Poptoogi yes thank you,i will check it up, and the use of grid for arms and leg joints is really awesome already saw it in your older videos ,and they should put a lock in the grid in a moho update, so when we resize objects not resize the grid too,keep the amazing work

[@Abbas_Buamer]

لقد اشتقت لك كثييييرا.

[@getusi1663]

That's Chris d'elia man lol

[@tegoelzehery8115]

Hay dude Come back to youtube please😢

[@kongkermhm3657]

How to make magic godzilla?

[@brendankeogh4669]

Chris Delia

[@jarvotunes7540]

Doesn't work for me. The bones just behave randomly, the pin bones do sweet FA and won't move. I have followed this stage by stage and point by point. There is something missing in the tutorial that you have done before rigging the limbs.

[@basicsmoothbrain7624]

RIck and Mortiers

[@petrinaude6032]

The new handles suck!!!

[@negarharatikhoo3888]

من انگلیسی نمیفهممممم خدااااااا:)

[@mohamadrezasoleymani-do8cs]

Cool But what are you doing bro? Please practice before filming

[@ahmedal-afifi2101]

welcome back