Moho vs. Animate CC (Which One Should You Use?)

If you’re looking into producing turned-on content, there’s a wide variety of software and techniques to explore. Two popular 2D volatility programs - Moho and Adobe Vivificate CC, have a lot in common, but differ in some key ways.

In this post we'll squint at the differences so you can determine which largest suits your goals or way of working.

In other words:  Moho vs. Vivificate CC. Which one should you use?

Contents:

• Use Cases
• Learning Curve
• Art Tools
• Animation Features
• Cost
• How to get started

Use Cases

Moho

The big vaccinate of Moho is it’s ease of use for creating reusable 2D rigs with a tremendous value of control. This makes it unconfined for TV shows, web series and plane for creating video game animation.

Moho goes all in on its vector rigged characters, and neglects other hand-drawn features. While it does have the option to do hand drawn animation, it’s very limited.

While it’s not an industry standard volatility software, it has been used in Oscar nominated full-length films:

Animate CC

Animate CC moreover offers the worthiness to do hand drawn frame-by-frame volatility (though Animate’s drawing tools don’t squint or finger as natural.

But Vivificate CC moreover makes it easy to do limited animation where individual pieces of the weft can be swapped, and puppet animation where a weft rig can be posed without redrawing it.

The option to use these time saving techniques in wing to frame-by-frame volatility makes it much largest suited to productions with a lower upkeep and tight schedule like TV and web series.

Animate CC, when when it was still tabbed Flash, used to be the only practical way of creating volatility for the web. Now, Animate’s ease of use and low windbreak to entry continues to make it a goto for self-sustaining animators producing content for Youtube.

YouTubers who use Adobe Vivificate (Flash):

Alan Becker (Check out his animation course)

TheOdd1sOut

Jaiden Animation

Adobe Vivificate has moreover been used to create TV volatility as well.

Great looking shows made using Adobe Vivificate (Flash):

Moho vs. Vivificate CC: Main differences

Moho:

• Reusable characters
• Content with a very tight schedule
• Powerful Weft Rigs

Animate CC:

• Narrative Animations
• Interactive Web Content
• Puppet Notation or Hand Drawn Animation.

Learning Curve

Moho

Moho prides itself for stuff intuitive, and they have made an effort to make rigging a much less daunting task, but there’s still a lot to learn to weightier implement their tools.

While the increasingly simple rigs are easy to set up, you’ll have to dig deep to use all of its smart tools for creating increasingly ramified rigs. 

Animate CC

Adobe Vivificate is often considered one of the easier volatility programs of it’s kind to learn.

There’s a lot of techniques to learn in order to weightier make use of Animate’s features, and the vector-based drawing tools will take some getting used to, but the vital interface and workflow for making volatility is generally intuitive and easy to pickup.

Art Tools

Moho

Moho focuses on vector drawing tools. While it does have bitmap drawing capabilities, you’re increasingly likely to import bitmap artwork drawn in flipside program.

Most of the tools you’ll probably use are the rigging tools, which work unconfined for both vector and bitmap art.

Animate CC

Adobe Vivificate is very much the opposite of TV paint when it comes to drawing. It has a series of vector drawing tools for creating crisp, scalable, artwork with a low file size, and relatively low memory usage.

If you’re used to drawing with a bitmap drawing program like Photoshop or Procreate, it can take some getting used to.

If you’re wrung that vector tools are too clunky for weft animation, know that tools in Adobe Vivificate work differently from those in Adobe Illustrator for example and are much largest suited for self-ruling hand drawing.

Animation Features

Frame-by-Frame Animation

If you want the worthiness to yank volatility frame-by-frame, Animate CC is definitely the way to go. Animate, at its core, is well-nigh using digital tools to create individual frames of animation.

Moho does have frame-by-frame capabilities, though it’s not its strong suit. 

Rigging Character Puppets

Moho’s biggest selling point is its rigging capabilities. It features a wide variety of wide rigging tools that allows for both an intuitive simple rigging process, and an wide ramified rigging pipeline if needed.

Its unique Smart Bone system is the easiest way to make rigged notation that finger increasingly hand drawn.  

The weft rigging features of Vivificate CC are fairly basic, but it’s easy to start working with them and build a weft you can work with fairly quickly.

Other Factors

Moho has many effects that can be unromantic to your layers and drawing elements that let you do things like add shadows and color modifications.

It can be unintuitive to icon out how to unzip the effect you’re going for since variegated effects are unromantic from variegated places in the interface. Many effects can’t be rendered live in your canvas view so you’ll need to do a lot of preview renders to see how your effects look. 

One big full-length that differentiates Vivificate CC from basically any other volatility software, is that Vivificate has the worthiness to publish content for the web. You can create HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, and SVG animations using Adobe Animate.

This includes making animations with interactivity like for ads or games. So if that’s your goal you should go with Animate.

Cost

Moho is misogynist in two versions: Moho Debut and Moho Pro.

Moho Pro is what we recommend using. The key features that makes the Pro version worth the upgrade are Smart Bones and Smart Warp. These tools are what makes Moho’s rigging so great, and are highly recommended.

There’s moreover things like size limits and 3D object support that make Pro much better suited for doing serious volatility work. 

Animate CC is only misogynist through Adobe’s Creative Cloud Subscription model. Vivificate CC can be purchased by itself, or as part of the ALL Adobe Apps package

Moho vs. Vivificate CC - How do you choose?

Who won the Moho vs. Vivificate CC fight?

Choose Moho if you’re interested in doing rigged-puppet volatility and want to be worldly-wise to unzip impressive, whilom stereotype results with a unelevated stereotype learning curve. 

Go with Vivificate CC if you want a simple way to get started with animation, or if you are looking for ways to save time and money by employing limited volatility or puppet rigged notation in wing to frame-by-frame animation.

Get started

Bloop has animation-focused courses for both programs, so you can jump in and learn all the tools you need to know to get started animating.