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basakward — Lip Sync Tutorial - part 2
Published: 2004-11-06 01:37:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 40108; Favourites: 664; Downloads: 8570
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Expanding on the concept of "Phrasing" in animating a lipsync, as well as some phoeneme mouth shapes!Again, I emphasize this is all my opinion and how _I_ do my animations, which might not be the industry standard or whatnot.. This is just what works for me.
PART ONE: [link]
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So I have a question I drew all the different mouth shapes but upon animating them to match a sequence of sounds it looks weird is that because there's no audio behind it?
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ahh this is an old pic of yours but still very useful ^^
but i have a question, do you know what the mouth shape for R is? i can never seem to get it right, at least in a cartoony form. for example, when you say "far", what is the mouth shape? thanks ^^
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It's close to an "oo" shape, but the mouth is a little wider and I show more of the teeth. Hope that makes sense.
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actually, that makes a lot of sense! i never thought of adding the teeth in myself XD
thanks so much ^^ this will help a lot : D
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This should work out beautifully! Can't wait to put it to use. Thanks for posting it!
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I saw this years back and I forgot to fav it xD
this is a pretty nifty tutorial
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This is extremely helpful for the assignment I'm doing right now! Thanks!! 8D it's awesome
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glad you like it, and thanks for faving it!
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Thank you so much for this tutorial. I think this will help me a lot in future projects.
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glad you like it! thanks for faving it!
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... This is amazing.
Thank you SO MUCH for this and the other tutorial. I'm just a high school student but I really want practice animation as soon as possible. This is going to be really helpful. :D
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glad you like 'em..thank you for faving them!
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This is a great reference, thankyou very much!
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thanks...that defenetly makes sense...I asked some of my friends and they said x-sheets also...its gonna be weird getting used to it since its so technical but...I gotta be a good animator...I was thinking of also maybe using flash and importing the sound...fuguring out how many frames the sound would last at 24 frames per second...maybe when I import the sound on flash and c how long it last there it can also give me a good Idea on how long(how many frames) itd problable last. Also it would show me the hight points of the sound...since flash shows a wav.thanks for the links they were a good help.
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thanks Bro...this is really helpfull...I wanna ask how you can match the sound and timing when your doing the pencil test and not listening to the sound while its playing...cause in flash its easy...since you hear the sound while your animating that way its easy to get the timing...but when doing a penciltest you cant hear the sound until you get your tape into a computer with that DV machine....please help me obi one kanobi your my only hope
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Oh yeah, here's where you can find some blank x-sheet templates just in case you decide to go that route.
[link]
Check out the rest of the site too.. It's a real gem.
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There's a number of different methods. But the most standard in 2D animation is the use of x-sheets.
Here's a pretty good overview of using x-sheets:
[link]
Since you're familiar with flash, using x-sheets might come a little more easy to you.
But for me personally, I put the sound byte on my computer, and I use an animation software that plays the sound byte along an x-sheet for me (much like flash does) and I time out my dialogue using that.
The software I use is called Quickchecker
[link]
It's expensive, but it does a lot of the dirty work for you so you can focus more on animating. Pretty much all of my pencil tests were exported directly from Quickchecker.
Hope that helps. Good luck with your animation!
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i know that this was originally intended for animated works, but this will also help me quite a bit when i *someday* start on the comic that's in my head!
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great! glad it's helpful to you- thank you for the fav!
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I seeeeee...so it's like this:
elephant=elfnt
monkey=mnkee
banana=buhnahnuh
favorite=favreet
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That's it!.. thanks for the fav!
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I REALLY needed this! Thanks! It's awesome!
Sorry, I can't think of an advanced critique.
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That's okay, glad it's helpful!
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Great work. Better than most animation books! Am doing a character animation project in uni and doing acting and performance over the next two weeks. That involves lip-sync, and this is a great help!
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Great! There's a lot of good tutorials to be found here on deviant.. glad that you found mine useful.
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nice.... now what would one do for a 'W'?
I'm trying to do this manually, as opposed to using this program I have.
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"w" would be the same as the "oo" I believe.
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thank yooz! I used this to make a new animation of these dudes talking, 'The Prisoner' style! This tutorial really helped!
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Cool, I'm glad it did! Looking forward to seeing more stuff from you!
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Good idea of leaving some letters from being drawn. I used to draw all letters, which made my characters seem to talk slower than the sound 
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Crap, I was hoping there'd be an ''Rr'' image, damnnnnn
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try the "oo" with a little bit of teeth.. And of course you can always use the trusty mirror.
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believe me i've tried the mirror.
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indeed, this remidns me ALOT of "the animator's survival kit" wich is a great book (and the reference in our classes) ... N i like this tutorial
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Yeah, Animator's Survival Kit is my bible, so I'm not suprised if my tutorials are a little similar.. *l*
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Very helpful. I could really use this in the future. Great work!
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Great! That's what I love to hear!
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I looked through both part 1 and 2, and even though I'm already familiar with this principle it's still a useful bit of info to refer to
There was actually one thing I wanted to know on how you execute your animations. Specifically timing and synching with sounds and voices. I have a general idea on that but nothing as thorough.
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Sweet! Well I hope it helps.. ^_^
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