Kilian's Animation Forays

I’ve captured 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= About Shadywoods: A slacker dad struggles to raise his activist teenage daughter in the magical mayhem of a bewitched forest. https://shadywoods.net Due to the pilot episode being produced mostly as a one-man operation, production pace is slow. Check out the “Sneaky Peak” production blog to see how the next episode is coming along https://kilianmuster.com/shadywoods Connect with me online: ======================= Shadywoods Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shadywoods Twitter: https://twitter.com/entershadywoods Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entershadywoods Social YouTube: https://youtube.com/@KilianMuster Twitter: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Instagram: https://instagram.com/kilianmuster

Talk about hyperbole. Anyway this is my new way of doing head turns in Moho Pro. It's saving me a lot of time and headaches. Connect with me online: ======================= Shadywoods Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shadywoods Twitter: https://twitter.com/entershadywoods Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entershadywoods Kilian Muster Production Blogs: https://kilianmuster.com/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@kilianmuster Twitter: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Instagram: https://instagram.com/kilianmuster

Just finished a fairly complex scene and thought I'd share some of my struggles. Because, why should I suffer alone? 00:00 - Start 01:10 - How I lay out a ‘radio play’ before animating 03:05 - Anatomy of a scene in Moho 06:37 - The odd things one ends up rigging as well… 07:06 - Placing the characters (now it gets hairy) 08:36 - Holding, placing interacting with objects 09:28 - That’s just the eye rig… 09:45 - Walk cycle retiming tip 10:31 - Table cloth (a real b*tch) 13:22 - Animating other objects in the scene (cereal bowl) 14:09 - Dropping items 14:39 - Ain’t nobody got no time to do frame-by-frame (auto tweening rules 👑) 15:28 - Tentacle animation… 17:39 - The old (abandoned) version of the fight 19:24 - The new version of the fight 19:52 - Animation of Frank getting a beating 22:52 - The complexities of climbing on a table from a chair 23:41 - The trouble with instance in Moho (rant) 24:55 - Instances, Layer reordering and body turns (rant 2) 28:01 - Interacting with other rigged objects 29:28 - Interaction between rigged objects (target bones are problematic) 30:41 - Masking objects (and fake switchin masks off) 32:09 - The actual final scene -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- About Shadywoods: A slacker dad struggles to raise his activist teenage daughter in the magical mayhem of a bewitched forest. https://shadywoods.net Due to the pilot episode being produced mostly as a one-man operation, production pace is slow. Check out the “Sneaky Peak” production blog to see how the next episode is coming along https://kilianmuster.com/shadywoods Connect with us online: ======================= Shadywoods Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shadywoods Twitter: https://twitter.com/entershadywoods Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entershadywoods Pixelblast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pixelblast Twitter: https://twitter.com/PIXELBLASTanim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixelblast Series Creator Kilian Muster YouTube: https://youtube.com/@kilianmuster Twitter: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Instagram: https://instagram.com/kilianmuster #animation #indieanimation #2danimation #madewithmoho #mohoanimation #cartoon #rigging #editing #finalcutpro

Here's a quick list of gotchas that I've been running into using Moho Pro. Hope it's of some help for you. 00:00 - Start 00:41 - Gotcha #1: Bone Parenting 03:05 - Gotcha #2: Bone Strength 03:51 - Gotcha #3: Smart Bone Angles 04:53 - Gotcha #4: Layer Binding 08:08 - Gotcha #5: Flexi Binding & Bone Strength Connect with me online: ======================= Shadywoods Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shadywoods Twitter: https://twitter.com/entershadywoods Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/entershadywoods Kilian Muster Production Blogs: https://kilianmuster.com/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@kilianmuster Twitter: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Instagram: https://instagram.com/kilianmuster

In this episode I'm talking about my workflow to create an episode of Phungus & Mowld from the idea to the final video. Kanban software I tried and liked: ============================ Leantime (open source, self-hosted) https://leantime.io Quire (my favourite) https://quire.io Ora (what I'm using for now) https://ora.pm Notion (more than just kanban, I use it to organise scripts, specs, everything) https://notion.so Free tool to embed subtitles in MP4 movies: ==================================== Subler https://subler.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- About the Series Phungus & Mowld: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hired gun and loudmouth Mowld repeatedly drags Phungus, an anxious little alien, from his cushy life as bartender into countless outlandish adventures. https://phungusandmowld.com/ Full Episodes: ============== Amazon Prime (US, UK, JP, DE): https://www.amazon.com/v/pixelblast Vimeo On Demand: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/phungusandmowld/ Gumroad: https://app.gumroad.com/pixelblast Pixelblast Shop: https://pixelblast.net/pm/#about Due to the series being produced entirely as a one-man operation, production pace is slow. Check out the “Sneaky Peak” production blog to see how the next episode is coming along https://kilianmuster.com/pm Connect with us online: ======================= Phungus & Mowld Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pixelblastcreative Twitter: https://twitter.com/phungusandmowld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phungusandmowld Pixelblast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdveR8vFl1--H_m5HmRsf1Q Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixelblastanim Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixelblast Kilian Muster YouTube: https://youtube.com/kilianmuster Twitter: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Instagram: https://instagram.com/kilianmuster

This time I talk about the design decisions that went into creating Phungus & Mowld, and why it looks the way it looks. Apps I mentioned: - Procreate (iPad): https://procreate.art - Affinity Designer (iPad/Mac/Win): https://affinity.serif.com/designer/ ======== About Phungus & Mowld: Animated sci-fi series about hired gun and loudmouth Mowld, who repeatedly drags Phungus, an anxious little alien, from his cushy life as bartender into countless outlandish adventures. About PIXELBLAST: Pixelblast Creative is an independent studio founded by the series creator Kilian Muster. https://pixelblast.net Full Episodes: ============== Amazon Prime (US, UK, JP, DE): https://www.amazon.com/v/pixelblast Vimeo On Demand: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/phungusandmowld/ Gumroad: https://app.gumroad.com/pixelblast Pixelblast Shop: https://pixelblast.net/shop/ Due to the series being produced entirely as a one-man operation, production pace is slow. Check out the “Sneaky Peak” production blog to see how the next episode is coming along https://kilianmuster.com/pm Connect with us online: ======================= Phungus & Mowld Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pixelblastcreative Twitter: https://twitter.com/phungusandmowld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phungusandmowld Pixelblast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdveR8vFl1--H_m5HmRsf1Q Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixelblast_hq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pixelblast Kilian Muster YouTube: https://youtube.com/kilianmuster Twitter: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Instagram: https://instagram.com/kilianmuster

How I write my scripts and what learned doing that. (Addendum: After publishing this and looking more into script writing it appears that Freytag's Pyramid really only properly applies to "Dramas", so if you write a comedy or like me an SF series it's really not that useful. I've been falling back to a three act structure, which works just as well…) PDF explaining screenplay script format https://kilianmuster.com/files/screenplaytv.pdf Final Draft https://www.finaldraft.com Everything about the Fountain Format https://fountain.io Slugline 2 https://slugline.co Untitled for Scriptwriting http://www.untitledapp.co Logline App http://loglineapp.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Official Phungus & Mowld website: https://pixelblast.net/pm Purchase Episodes here: http://phungusandmowld.com About Phungus & Mowld: Phungus & Mowld is Kilian Muster’s animated cartoon sci-fi series, created as a one-man-production in its entirety in the creator's spare time. Get more sneaky peek production updates and behind-the-scenes info at https://kilianmuster.com/pm Phungus & Mowld features the adventures of Phungus a yellow snailien from a xenophobic planet, Mowld a human, always on some shady "mission", and ALIS, their hacked imperial robot travelling in a spaceship with a Framistan Drive considered extremely unstable and unreliable. Learn More about the Characters here: https://pixelblast.net/phungus-and-mowld/#characters About Pixelblast Animation: Pixelblast is Kilian Muster's one-man-operation animation studio, where he creates the Phungus & Mowld series in his free time. If this ever takes off, there are other series in the planning… https://pixelblast.net Connect with us online: ================== Visit Pixelblast Animation WEBSITE: https://pixelblast.net Like Phungus & Mowld on FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/pixelblastanimation Follow Phungus & Mowld on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/phungusandmowld Follow Kilian Muster on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Follow Phungus & Mowld on INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/phungusandmowld/

This is the first video in a small vlog series, where I'm showing how I am producing my animated series "Phungus & Mowld" all by myself. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Created by Kilian Muster. Official Phungus & Mowld website: https://pixelblast.net/pm Purchase Episodes here: http://phungusandmowld.com About Phungus & Mowld: Phungus & Mowld is Kilian Muster’s animated cartoon sci-fi series, created as a one-man-production in its entirety in the creator's spare time. Get more sneaky peek production updates and behind-the-scenes info at https://kilianmuster.com/pm Phungus & Mowld features the adventures of Phungus a yellow snailien from a xenophobic planet, Mowld a human, always on some shady "mission", and ALIS, their hacked imperial robot travelling in a spaceship with a Framistan Drive considered extremely unstable and unreliable. Learn More about the Characters here: https://pixelblast.net/phungus-and-mowld/#characters About Pixelblast Animation: Pixelblast is Kilian Muster's one-man-operation animation studio, where he creates the Phungus & Mowld series in his free time. If this ever takes off, there are other series in the planning… https://pixelblast.net Connect with us online: ======================= Visit Pixelblast Animation WEBSITE: https://pixelblast.net Like Phungus & Mowld on FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/pixelblastanimation Follow Phungus & Mowld on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/phungusandmowld Follow Kilian Muster on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/kilianmuster Follow Pixelblast Animation on INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/pixelblast/