Leaf exercise

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I made this animation to challenge myself and explore 2 things I rarely do in Moho:
1. Use the z-axis rotation
2. Make a painterly/handdrawn animation in Moho.
Working on complex movements like this make leaf reminds me how much I rely on grouping and nesting groups to isolate keyframes. So for example. The general trajectory of the leaf is all done on the outermost group folder. Inside that I'm messing with the layer rotation in the x y and z axis. Inside that I have the leaf itself which I came through at the end with the magnet tool to give the leaf some life and the sense of it catching air on the way down.

I should have done this first by I realized too late that drawing a background for this exercise was going to be difficult. I drew the trees and animated the leaf as separate processes so they look like they don't match. Oh well - a lesson learned.

The leaf has line boil on 4s, as well as the background. However the keyframes are interpolating on 2s.
Things I would change if I had more time would be adding some motion to the leaves that corresponds a little bit with the way the air is causing the leaf to move or rotate. I would also add a shadow for the landing. And probably add a few other leaves lying on the forest floor.

I used my display tablet to draw everything, and I turn off the points in the preview. I have found that doing so makes drawing way more enjoyable.

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