Bring the contents of your imagination to life with this bundle of digital art tools, designed to help you capture the depth and spirit of hand-rendered art on your screen! Paintstorm Studio is an intuitive, simple-to-use application that aims to make digital painting as comfortable and liberating as possible, regardless of your style. Realistic Paint Studio combines the simplicity of traditional tools with the latest innovations in digital art tech to enable you to get fully absorbed in the process of creation. You’ll also get The Artist’s Roadmap to Multiple Streams of Income to help you find success in the booming marketplace of digital art. Pay what you want for this trove of creativity-empowering tools and help support No Kid Hungry!

And here’s the link to the ultimate animation bundle containing 4 items.

Looking for an efficient alternative to traditional animation? Bring your creativity to vibrant life with the powerful and intuitive Moho Pro! This bundle for professionals and digital artists features everything you need to create high-quality animation quickly and easily, including the base software (v12.5) and a trio of content packs with brushes, vector-drawn and fully rigged characters, and more to help you get started. Plus, your purchase will support No Kid Hungry!

You can always check out the most recent Humble Bundle offers here and here.

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Create the 2D fantasy RPG or sci-fi adventure you’ve been dreaming of! This massive bundle of assets features fully animated heroes, sprites for monsters and robots, tilesets for everything from towns to steampunk trains, UI elements, FX, assets ready-made for RPG Maker MV/MZ, and much more. Equip yourself with the assets you need to build your own retro legend, and help support the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research with your purchase.

You can always check out the most recent Humble Bundle offers here and here.

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Learn 3D modeling and animation with Blender and teach yourself the digital art skills you need to make games today with this set of hands-on courses from GameDev.tv! Start with the Complete Blender Creator Course to build a foundation, and hone your technique with specialized courses in sculpting characters for games, building 3D worlds, painting textures, and much more. Plus, your purchase will support SpecialEffect!

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Unleash the full creative force of your pencil, pen, and tablet with this artists’ ebook bundle! Bring the comics and manga in your head to life with The Art of Comic Book Drawing and Illustration Studio: Drawing Manga Heroines and Heroes. Teach yourself an Anime Art Class, learn to letter like a pro, and get dozens of guides to help shape your style and hone your technique—all while supporting Covenant House!

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Learn 3D modeling and animation with Blender, discover how to create characters and environments, and teach yourself the digital art skills you need to make games today with this set of hands-on courses from GameDev.tv! Get the Complete Blender Creator Course to build a foundation, and work on specialized techniques with Blender Character Creator Course and Complete Drawing Course. Plus, your purchase will support Women in Games International!

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Also, press play on audio dramas and books including The Buried Dagger, The Long Night, Fulgrim, Horus Rising, and more, by going here!

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Skeletal animation, or rigging, has been one of the great boons for animated shows and other projects. What it essentially involves is a surface representation called a mesh or skin over a hierarchical set of interconnected parts called bones that collectively form the skeleton or rig. In its simplest terms, this setup allows the animator to more easily and realistically make characters move with less effort. One of my favorite shows, Rick and Morty, makes use of these concepts, and is at the heart of Moho Animation Software Pro.

Of course, if you’re considering software at this price point, which is high, but not outrageous, you’re likely familiar with many of its concepts, including Smart and Vitruvian Bones, or at least willing to learn. Even though I’m a self-proclaimed dabbler, I do hope to use it for some professional projects now and again, as well as for fun personal experiments. So while someone like me should arguably go with Moho Debut 13.5 instead, the extra ambition and cost of this Pro software may be just the additional motivation you’ll need to make more use of it.

As is typical for modern boxed software, you get a disc in a DVD-style case. There’s no actual box like is implied on the store page. Inside of course are no instructions, just a welcome note, the serial number license code, and a discount for add-on products like additional assets. If you don’t have a disc drive in your computer, or a USB add-on drive,  you can simply download the latest version of the software from the Lost Marble website and enter the included code. In other words, the disc is superfluous.

Although not as powerful as some of my other computers, I decided to install this to my Surface Book 2 because of the touchscreen and pen support. While the software supports macOS 10.15 or higher, I of course installed the Windows 10 version on my computer, which also meets the relatively modest minimum requirements.  You’ll need just under 2GB of hard drive space for a full install.

Installation went smoothly. It required me to restart my computer to finish installation. The software icon is a stylized “m” and the software name is “Moho,” although you’ll also see it in marketing as “MoHo” and “MOHO”. Once launched, it runs in its demo mode until you enter your serial number. When entering your serial number, be sure to enter the dashes or it won’t work (capitalization doesn’t matter).

When first starting the program, you’re given the option of an INTRODUCTORY TUTORIAL (thankfully), an option to JOIN THE MOHO FORUM, an option to follow MOHO SOCIAL NETWORKS, and another option to BUY ADD-ONS. You can also choose not to show these opening options again and just start the software directly.

When you’re in the software, a sample model is pre-loaded. You’re able to manipulate the aforementioned bones and create timeline-based animations much like standard video editing software.

From there I began to tinker. Although I have yet to really make anything ready to demonstrate, it was indeed relatively easy to create and export simple animations, although the latter does take several minutes even with shorter creations and even using multiple CPU cores.

This is clearly powerful stuff for the dedicated enthusiast. Although the user interface is loaded and intimidating, it’s again nothing out of the ordinary for this level of software. I feel like it’s something I can eventually get a real handle on without issue, especially due to my background in other software like Photoshop.

Ultimately, I had a good time with the software. While I know you can read plenty of reviews from far more qualified artists and animators, as a casual user I can say it’s well worth exploring if you have an interest in animation. It may not be for the true animation pros, but those who are well into the semi-pro enthusiast level should find a lot to like.

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Learn all about animation from the professionals! We’ve teamed up with CRC Press for our newest bundle! Get ebooks like Dream Worlds: Production Design For Animation, Directing for Animation: Everything You Didn’t Learn in Art School, Animated Life: A Lifetime of tips, tricks, techniques and stories from an animation Legend, Make Toons That Sell Without Selling Out, and Writing for Animation, Comics, and Games. Plus, your purchase will support the Hero Initiative!

Pay $1 or more. Normally, the total cost for the ebooks in this bundle is as much as $1,037. Here at Humble Bundle, you choose the price and increase your contribution to upgrade your bundle! This bundle has a minimum $1 purchase.

Read them anywhere. The eBooks in this bundle are available in PDF, MOBI, and ePub formats, so they work on your computer, e-readers, iPads, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices! Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here.

Support charity. Choose where the money goes – between the publisher and the Hero Initiative via PayPal Giving Fund. If you like what we do, you can leave us a Humble Tip too!

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Here’s the link to check out the bundle and name your own price!

More awesome ebooks for you. We’ve teamed up with CRC Press for our newest bundle! Get ebooks like Graphics Shaders, 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, The Uncanny Valley in Games and Animation, and Digital Character Development: Theory and Practice. Plus, your purchase will support the Jane Goodall Institute!

Pay $1 or more. Normally, the total cost for the ebooks in this bundle is as much as $700. Here at Humble Bundle, you choose the price and increase your contribution to upgrade your bundle! This bundle has a minimum $1 purchase.

Read them anywhere. The ebooks in this bundle are available in PDF format, so they work on your computer, e-readers, iPads, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices! Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here.

Support charity. Choose where the money goes – between the publisher and Jane Goodall Institute via the PayPal Giving Fund. If you like what we do, you can leave us a Humble Tip too!

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