Lip Syncing

I always have some sort of art project going on haha and lately I’ve been trying to figure out frame-by-frame animation and syncing audio to the animation. Hm…this may take some time.

I watched a video on Youtube saying that a way to understand mouth motions is to rest your chin on your fist with your elbow on a table or some other hard surface and just talk normally (preferably speaking the lines you want your character to say) and feel when your mouth motions push against your chin to know when to have the mouth wide when you’re animating your character to speak. It’s important to know because theres a misconception about animation that says you open your mouth wide when you talk so that’s how people animate their characters.

Another technique I’ve heard was placing your finger on the corners of your mouth and feel when your mouth goes wide and when it goes narrow. These exercises just help you understand the motions of the mouth as you speak so that the animation flows.

Also, apparently our mouths forms the words before we actually speak…so placing the audio about 5 frames ahead of the animation. I’ve read that animations typically are about 1,440 frames per minute…I’m working on an animation that is about 2 and a half minutes long so I’m looking at about 3600 frames…ugh..but I”m sure the end result will be worth it! haha

Wish me luck! And have fun trying out your own lip syncing animations! =)