Dialogue - Lip Sync Tip


Some note for the Lip Sync form

  • Aaron video (below)
  • 304 - 325 in The Animator's Survival Kit
  • 151 - 163 in Character Animation Crash Course.
  • 453 – 471 in The Illusion of Life




The mouth move 2-4F ahead sound.
Say the Dialogue and feel the mouth shape change between the word
A sentence has a pose, award let the pose to buzz. Every pose would have meaning in it. Don't over animate, don't over-enunciate.

At least 2 frames to read the important consonant

Most of the time the head accent(頭的動作) is up

  • anticipate is down
  • then head accent up
  • then lip on the vowel(母音)
Hit only the vowels which are important. Gloss over the other.
just hit the main accents

progress the action as you speak



Action:
we experience the emotion and magnify the result.


  1. show the expression change
    • avoid making a fast move while changing the expression
    • change your expression before the move, or at the end, when the character is moving slowly enough for it to be seen
    • Do not lose the expression change in an active secondary action- such as hand waving, a big arm action, or follow through on clothes.
  2. avoid looking up for a frown, unless it is a sinister, domineering  one
  3. Do not hide a smile with the head tilted down too far or behind a big nose or mustache
  4. Be sure you have right staging to show all the expression in your scene to best advantage
  5. have you tight expression for what your character thinking? are all part of the head and face relate to this one idea?
    • Do not change shapes too much all over the face
    • At time, hold down activity on the face so that just the mouth is moving
  6. As we are told so many times before we learned: It is the change of shape that shows the character is thinking. It is the thinking that gives the illusion of life. It is the life that give meaning to the expression.



Aaron workflow:
1. Thumbnail, clear body action first, mouth shape later. keep simple
2. Scribble pass (some key)(overlook isn't the pose working ?)
3.Tied down (more fouce on the mouth)



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to explore the emotion and using in my animation

Image
Some note for the video. This video is talking about how to explore the emotion and using in my animation. I think the biggest point and biggest challenge is to find a spontaneity action. Spontaneity action will make people feel more genuine, fresher. We need to find the Singularity acting which is : It isn't wired and doesn't make sense to people It is something simply shows out of common which is mean is unique and creative acting The process when we making character animation : 1. familiar with my emotion, normalize them and bring to surface(the shot) Let myself become the character feel the as same as the character feel it in your own body(emotion) 2. act the emotion when planning the shot(video reference, 2d planning) find the uniqueness avoid cliche which is mean the acting every will do shot the video reference, don't need to hit the beat in when you shot it. play the audio and feel it to act it out. do several times and find the uni
Read more

JP Sans, talk about subtext

Image
The (physical)movement will not gonna make your character come to life. The subtext and personality is the actual thing bring your character to life. how the character think, feel in each moment. how it moves base on his personality example: if you see your friend walk for far away which looks like a small silhouette. you know that is your friend, caz he has certain walk away know what character thinking About human's conversation: 7% spoken words 93% nonverbal(include body language, eye contact, gesture, facial expression, mannerisms) so when animator take a pice of dieolage it only has 7% of it, 93% is what you need to put in subtext: what do you give it visually which is the missing 93% part? It shows what character thinking, what personally this person is? good exercise: take a rig, to animate 3 characters (personalty) in it don't can't anything of the rig. don't add anything on it. just the same rig workflow: ask what is the subte
Read more