
More recently the technology has been adapted to work on the iPhone and iPad in the form of an application called Sock Puppets. This version contained upgraded features and new mechanics to its predecessor. In December 2014, Anime Studio 10 was released. On Tuesday August 13, 2013, Smith Micro released Anime Studio Pro 9.5, an upgraded version for Anime Studio 9 containing improvements and enhancements to its predecessor. New features include Smart Bones, Editable Motion Graphs and Bézier handles, as well as major enhancements to the timeline, key frames and onionskins. All of the new features developed for Anime Studio 9 were in response to the growing needs and requests of its professional users. On Monday, September 10, 2012, Smith Micro released Anime Studio 9. The latter feature made Anime Studio 8.1 the first graphics based software product to work natively with Wacom's Multi-touch Wacom Bamboo and Wacom Intuos tablets.
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The first major update of Anime Studio 8, version 8.1, also supported the new Poser 9 SDK and integrated the Wacom Multi-touch API. Approximately one year later, on Wed June 8, 2011, Smith Micro released Anime Studio 8, which added features such as the Character Wizard, layered Photoshop import, and real-time media connection. On Wed June 9, 2010, Smith Micro released Anime Studio 7, which added features such as Physics, 3D creation, and an improved interface. LostMarble is also home to the Anime Studio forums. LostMarble is the home of Papagayo, a free lip sync software which works with Anime Studio.

In 2016, version 12.0 was released under the name Moho. Moho version 5.4 was identical with the first release of Anime Studio Pro in 2006.

The software was originally developed under the name "Moho" in 1999 by Mike Clifton at LostMarble.
