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karnage
261 posts

17 Apr 2008
I am working on this lip sync for my animation class. I'm new to animation and don't really know what I'm doing! This is only my third animation ever, so I'm lost and I don't know how to fix some things. Help would be greeeeeatly appreciated!
Jonathan
480 posts

17 Apr 2008
Sometimes the mouth draws back too much, so perhaps more tweaking on the "eeeeee"s

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Claymation
600 posts

18 Apr 2008
Hey thats a nice start! I'd start out by taking all your keyframes and moving them one or two frames forward. A couple key spots to tweak i see right away are "people", there's too much movement between the p, the ee, and the second p. I'd bring the ee sound back a little so the lips don't move as much. Another one is the lips come completely closed between "nation" and "don't", they should stay open a little bit.

Are you going to animate the whole body too? The head movements are really going to sell it, I can just picture her head gonig from side to side.

Keep it up!
karnage
261 posts

18 Apr 2008
Thank you both for the advice

I don't think I am going to animate the body. This week my teacher just wants me to work on blinks and head movement, but maybe I'll get there someday!