Rigging a character in Moho Pro 14 from tracing to smart bones, to widgets

I’ve capture how I rigged my sub-character Leopold. It was a lot of ad-hoc work, because I never even thought about what he’d look like from the side… (He's not a central character in the episode) This rig is still lacking body turns, hip turns, and I forgot to create an inner/back side of Leopold’s jacket, but I’m sharing it with you anyway. Learn from my mistakes…
00:00:00 - Start
00:03:44 - Setup Styles
00:06:22 - Mouth Switch Layer 👄
00:08:34 - Setting up mouth switch layers (interpolation)
00:10:28 - Tracing the rest of the body 🖋️
00:12:09 - Putting in the basic bone structure 🦴
00:12:45 - Bone strength adjustment 💪
00:13:07 - Adding pin bones for shoulders and wrist 📍
00:27:31 - Sleeve opening controller bones
00:34:10 - Adding target bones for feet and hands 🎯
00:39:26 - Fixing issues via point binding 👨‍🔧
00:40:35 - Fixing issues with smart bones 🩻
00:45:30 - Vitruvian Bones for feet 🦶
00:50:06 - Eye Rig 👁️
00:56:52 - Eyelid controller & blink action
00:59:52 - Eyebrow controllers (point & layer animation)
01:01:40 - Eyebrow controllers (bones)
01:02:15 - Head Turn 👤
01:07:01 - Lip synching (manually) 🗣️
01:09:10 - Hand target mode switch 👋🎯
01:13:44 - Sleeve button switch
01:16:01 - Quick Test
The character voice work was done by Nasim Benelkour @luckspath, he'll be the voice of Leopold in the upcoming pilot.
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About Shadywoods:
A slacker dad struggles to raise his activist teenage daughter in the magical mayhem of a bewitched forest.
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[@graphicdestination968]

Thank god, I found this and thank you very much for sharing

[@yelftea6920]

Fun stuff! I found it very interesting that you only showed the contours of Leopold to place down the bones. I need to try that out when I do a vector rig. The eye target bones are also genius 😮 I found it really funny that you were also showing the parts where you were struggling with the rig. I feel less crazy now 😂 Also the Timelapse music is a jam 🎷 🎷 🎷

[@KilianMuster]

I started using circles for joints and binding them to sub bones to make sure they don't deform when shortening the arm. The circles help align the joint perfectly. Another thing I picked up from the Chinese Moho animator @MoeU33Hailey ( www.youtube.com/@MoeU33Hailey )

[@yelftea6920]

Interesting! I'll check out what other tips they have. It's a genius method :O@@KilianMuster

[@maddchem0153]

@killianmuster Absolutely wonderful!!!🤩 I go to Moho Animation channel for the webinars and to you for the actual production application of the software both triumphs and troubleshooting to problem solving and work around execution. Bravo Sir!🎉😊

[@RanDyLan]

A massive amount of work!

[@cubemultimedia2651]

Amazing , thanks

[@LongerTomTV]

Awesome! Thank you very much for sharing

[@petrinaude6032]

Good to see you on the horse again!!!

[@KilianMuster]

I've been on the horse all the time, just spent a whole year developing Shadywoods, finding voice actors and getting three full episodes written. All in my spare time, of which I have little.😩

[@maddchem0153]

I know how you feel. Almost 2 years ago I completed my first episode and then my Mother died suddenly. It took a year for me to get myself together through her passing, my divorce and other things. I’m currently working on episode 2 but now my Dad is not good so I’m looking after him plus my blue collar job. I saw your most recent post and it uplifted my spirits because last night I just realized I watched your space adventure on Amazon Prime “Phungus and Mowld” Fun Fact Phungus is an actual place in India. Same exact spelling too😂

[@sabyaislive]

sir, when I use multiple target bones it doesn't work ...why? I can't understand..........

[@KilianMuster]

Always make sure that the target bones have *no* parent bones. Make sure the target bone strenghth is set to 0. And make sure they're named correctly and that the bones that target them are setup to target the right bone (I sometimes mix that up myself).

[@KilianMuster]

Also target bones often don't work properly on frame 0. Need to go to frame 1 to test them.

[@sabyaislive]

@@KilianMuster thanks a lot, dear....

[@gdejabirel4360]

nice