On one end you have something like Harmony Premium which you can pay for by subscription or get a perpetual license $2,000, then you have Moho at $400, Spine Pro at $299 and then OpenToonz which is open source and free. Those moves made me scratch my head.ĢD animation software isn't cheap and there aren't a lot of options. They (Smith Micro) got rid of the original programmer, Mike Clifton, and also got rid of others on the team like Victor Paredes, who is one of the greatest practitioners of the program. Yeah, really stripped down and no import or export of SVG, can't really recommend the Debut version.Īs I said, the program and the company is at a bit of a crossroads. R C-R, i just found the option in Moho Pro 12.3 that lets me restart the program as 12.3 Debut, I guess they did this to make it easier produce tutorials and use both programs. I do not think even with tool improvements the Debut version is worth its $70 retail price. The current Debut versions still lack vector import/export & many other functions.

As of version 9, the editing tools were still horrible, & I think they may not have been improved much until the switch back to the MOHO name at version 12(?).

I eventually took advantage of another upgrade sale offer to get Anime Studio Pro version 9.2 (for under $200 if memory serves), but when Smith Micro wanted even more money to upgrade that to version 9.5, I decided they had enough of my money. But when I got an offer to upgrade to the Pro 6 version for about $70 I did that, mostly because the Debut versions lack any kind of vector import, as well as many other features of the Pro versions. The editing tools were terrible - for example, the move tool equivalent could not select anything you had to use a different tool for that & then switch to one of the other tools to move points or do anything else that required a selection. I first bought MOHO as Anime Studio Debut version 6 when I found it on sale somewhere for about $20.

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