Lipsync

This is my lipsync animation for the phrase "Frankly my dear, I don't give a dam." A lip sync animation uses substitution. You can change the mouth shape for another according to the phonemes. The technique to this is to make almost a time chart for each word and pick out each phoneme. An example of phonemes is "F-ra-nk-ly my de-ar", they make up the rhythm of each and every word. Once you know the phonemes you can make the mouth shapes to go with them. For 'ra' the mouth would be open slightly and close together at the sides. After all the mouths are labelled you put one on the character, take a shot and repeat with all the mouths you have created. Finally in editing you time each frame to fit the phrase. A strength for this is that it adds atitude to your character but the main weakness is that it takes so long to do. It takes more time to plan than to shoot.