Lip syncing

Yesterday was a session on lip syncing relating to animation it was a basic tutorial on understanding the phonetic sounds/letters and how they are illustrated when they are said by a character. we looked at the comparisons between the letters and what sounds they made in relation to some one speaking certain words to work out what sound matched with which mouth based on the mouths positioning.

We under went this exercise because most people with in our class have not had an induction relating to lip syncing and want to understand how it works in relation to an animated character and what needed to be done in order to lip sync correctly.

We practised lip syncing with an existing character and many different styles of mouths making phonetic, Even though I have learnt a lot relating to lip syncing I will not be using this for my final animation because my animation does not involve any speaking from the characters. Only background music, sound and narrating will be added to the animation.

I personally like this tutorial because it made me understanding a technique I have been waiting to try out for a long time, I never knew how syncing speech with a voice worked so I never had the two elements come together. I feel this lesson has made me understand the technique of lip syncing a lot because Mark talked through the sounds thoroughly and explain the sounds they making in comparison to the expression and made these links clear so when we came to animate these sounds we understood them well.