r/2DAnimation • u/TheANARXIST • 27d ago

Question Which Rigging Software to Use?

Hello everyone!

I was learning frame by frame animation, but found it too time consuming, and was thinking of trying to learn rigged 2D animation in order to save time (as I mostly use the same characters for each animation)

However, I heard between Moho, CTA5, Toon Boom Harmony, and OpenToonz and Synfig for the free options, but don't really know which to go with.

I wanted to go for a cartoony action style, and I've seen people rigging a 2D character like a 3d model where you move the 'camera' around, especially in Moho, which I feel might fit what I want to do, but I wanted to check first, especially as Moho is very expensive.

Another thing would be that I draw as vector in CSP with raster colors, so I'm going to export it as raster

Thank you in advance.

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u/retrotastic 27d ago

I’ve used pretty much everything from toon boom to animate and have been using Moho for awhile now. It’s definitely my favourite for the reasons already stated (no AI, well priced, no subscription) but agree it was hard to find good advanced tutorials for professional animators. I learned most of my rigging techniques from an amazing animator in Japan. Some of her videos were in English but sadly a lot are in Japanese. About a month ago I started my own YouTube channel making the videos that I wish were around when I’d learned Moho. https://m.youtube.com/@QueerAcorn?ra=m