How to make portals or holes in anime studio pro - MOHO Pro 

+Stridgamer i seen a lot of fire tutorials on RU-vid some particles, other point animation, look around

+Stridgamer Hey Stridgamer, I made a tutorial on making a flame thrower a long time ago and some other fire stuff but it needs to be updated as well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YIGQHio41jc.html There are so many different ways to create fire so I think later on I'll make a compilation of different fire effects!

+ShoNuff93 That was a nice tutorial, so how about this one draw hand and making it turn like you did with batman character with rigging if that is possible to do?!

BTW- I just bought Anime Studio Pro 11 a few weeks ago. is there any advantage to the newest version 12 compared to 11? I didn't see any when i read all the documentation. I bought Version 11 because it was cheaper- I only paid around $80.00 off of Amazon.com. Amazon wanted around 300 for Version 12- their newest version. I really am enjoying learning this software. I had an old version- version 5- i think- back in 2009 and I really didn't like it. I was so used to using Flash. But now I really like Anime Studio a whole lot more! I still am not crazy about not being able to draw simple lines like used to do in Flash, but there are so many features and effects that you can do with the vector drawings that you can't do with Flash. I don't have Animate CC so I don't know if the drawing features are any better or not. In Flash CS 6 that I still have you can't do any blur effects or soften anything in a vector or layer and you definitely can't apply image texture to objects- a feature which I LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah and the adding 3D objects into the program is really nice!!!!!!!!!!!!! I make 3D objects in Maya and transport them into Anime Studio! It really adds to the realism to a scene. I am working on a space battle scene and I like that I can move the 3d model ships in all kinds of angles. I know there are ways to use smart bones make objects revolve or rotate from one side to the other but my ships are so detailed it would take forever to make them. i would rather just take the models that I built and rotate the layer they are in in 3D space a create the scene that way. Thanks for the tutorials! Great Job!

Hi Angel Michael, I just used a circle and a little bit of particle magic to make the portals. If you'd like to see the file for it just write me a message at facebook.com/poptoogi and I'll send you the .anime file. AS 11 is great and if you're strapped for cash I would not upgrade to MOHO 12. It's great but really not necessary. It does, however, include my base character model and a ton of other artists resources and characters that aren't in 11.

Thanks I really appreciate the reply!

it's not really that hard

+xXGoodStuffXx Hey GS, The portals are just circles with an orange or blue stoke with a blend mode of "add" selected and a soft edge around them. Then they were placed into a particle layer with these settings. Particle count: 12 Preview particles: 12 Source width: .0250 Velocity: 0.01 Direction: 90 Spread: 1.5502 and free floating and randomize playback are unchecked. The rest of the settings are checked or set to zero. If you try to make the the rings on top of a dark color otherwise the color will wash out. Thats why they are on top of black circles!

I'm not sure what you mean Harish. You can send me your file as an attachment on facebook at facebook.com/poptoogi and I can take a look at it.

Yeah there should be JE Woo. I haven't worked a lot with textures though so you might want to check with someone like Bill Cass ru-vid.com who works a lot with textures in Anime Studio!

Thanks for the quick response. I will try asking him, but my question was more about masks then textures but I guess that is probably the most common use for masking a layer with layers inbetween you don't want affected by the masked layer.. If you could tell me how to see gradients and layer blending modes I would appreciate it, I have been searching for it all day and can't find anything on it.. I can only see them when I render.

Yes and no Rafael. It really sucks but you can't mask within a mask in the same group or layer. You can, however, do so between groups like in this video. My characters face has masking applied to it and I'm also masking the entire character through the portals but as you can see in the preview work area ( 2:54) the program doesn't quite display it correctly. Only when you render out can you see if it's working. Just do a quick Command+R to render a single frame(like at 3:04) to see if your masks are actually working right.

Hmmm.... I'm not sure Hardik! I'll have to check and see. If it doesn't work you can adjust on frame one since it will be exactly like frame zero but I don't know if that is what you mean. If you can show me an example, maybe I can help! :)

+ShoNuff93 i prefer this way. i always do everything on other frame then 0. I never touch anything on 0

+ShoNuff93 anyway You tried your best. And I got it.

I'm not too professional, but what I would do is just put a layer over the hand, which is the pocket, that would make it slide under that layer and make it look as if it were pockets.

francis kamau send me your file Francis at www.poptoogl@gmail.com and I'll take a look.

Are you just trying to make your characters cheeks turn red or the whole face Hady?

ShoNuff93 the whole face..

When you are in the timeline where you want the color to change, hit Q on your keyboard and then select the face. You'll then have to click on the fill color in the window on the right to create a keyframe for the color change. It should appear on in the time line when you do this. Then move the cursor on the timeline down a little bit to where you want to have the color actually change and do the same thing but this time choose a different, redder color in the fill. This will animate the color but be careful, anime studio is pretty weird when it comes to animating colors. If you don't have a starting keyframe your color will start to change from the beginning and it's hard to correct because sometimes the color keyframes don't show up. I might make a video about this because it can be a pain. The other easier solution is to make a circle and make the fill transparent and then do the same thing as above but just make it animate to a solid color by turning up the opacity. It's easier because it won't mess with your characters color.

ShoNuff93 thank you