Starting point for this tutorial.
This shows you an easy way to animate a photograph to create a cheesy talking-head effect. The quality of the result will depend a lot on the photograph you start with and how the bone system is set up.
For this tutorial, we'll start with a project file that's almost finished. It's named "Tutorial 4.3" and it's located in the "Tutorials/4 - Images" subfolder within the main Moho folder. Open this file in Moho, and you should see this:
Starting point for this tutorial.
The project contains an image layer enclosed in a bone layer. Bones have already been set up to control the mouth region, and extra bones have been set up around the border of the image to hold the rest of the head still.
Select the Manipulate Bones tool and use it to drag the bone at the lower right side of the mouth. Notice that the other mouth bones move as well - they have been set up using bone constraints to move in sync with the lower-right bone.
Moving the mouth.
Now we'll add a soundtrack to this animation. Choose the Animation->Select Soundtrack... menu command. When prompted, pick the reagan.wav file from the "Moho/Tutorials/4 - Images" folder. Note: QuickTime is required for working with audio in Moho. The audio file will now play back with the animation - try playing it back if you like.
The next step is to add some animation in sync with the soundtrack. Activate the Select Bone tool and make sure the bottom-right bone in the mouth is selected (it probably already is at this point). Set the current time to frame 1. Select the Script->Sound->Bone Audio Wiggle menu command. This is a script that uses the volume of an audio file to control the angle of a bone. In the dialog box that appears, set the maximum bone angle to 180 and click OK. Moho will prompt you for an audio file - select the same reagan.wav file you used for the soundtrack. The script will run and add keyframes to the timeline for the selected bone. Because the other bones are controlled by the selected one, the whole mouth will move.