The Lip Sync Tutorial They DON’T Give You

The lip sync tutorial they DON’T give you

I mentioned on twitter that I wanted to do a lip sync tutorial and immediately got some people who were interested so I put one together real quick!

I’m going to use a bit of unfinished lip sync from my taz animated part as reference. They’re just gifs so no sound, but you should still be able to tell that he’s saying “I’d say a solid B… Solid B minus.”

Anyone who’s looked up how to do lip sync has seen phoneme charts. Phonemes are just the shape your mouth makes when you make certain sounds.

The Lip Sync Tutorial They DON’T Give You

When you do lip sync, you want some kind of reference to make sure it’s right

What’s easiest is to say it yourself and pay attention to the shapes your mouth is making. Since you’re going frame by frame, your audio is slow enough that you can make each shape slowly and distinctly and you can get each individual phoneme down in the animation.

Don’t do this.^

An easy way to tell if you’re animating lip sync wrong is if you run out of frames to make each shape. You don’t need them! Making each shape is unnatural. People talk quickly and the mouth doesn’t have the time to get into each shape. They blend together, sometimes to the point where the shape doesn’t change at all!

Not only does the 2nd gif take less frames and energy to make, it’s more relaxed, it looks less distracting, and his lips are much easier to read!

These are reference charts to show the differences more clearly

This is the difference between getting swallowed up in every last detail and paying attention to reality.

What matters more than hitting every syllable is making it look natural and flow with the acting. That’s why anime mouth flaps can work so well. A strong pose through the whole body matters more than one mouth shape.

My Jack o lantern drawing

Okay, so, in art class we have been doing charcoal all this time, practising drawing statues.

Like this gorgeous first attempt of drawing with charcoal. Beautiful.

The man and the "I'm judging you" face woman. (The light is there too, I'm too sassy, I couldn't resist)

The awesome abstract drawing withe the "cube face". I swear, it's supposed to be a face there in the right.

"The man who used to not have half of his face" is there too. He seems a little sad, I wonder why.

And, so, the time passed. The teacher said we could draw anything we wanted.

Anything .

I present you MISS PUMPKIN. I'M NOT GIVING UP HALLOWEEN UNTIL IT'S DECEMBER. It's not finished yet. I started a few days ago, I don't want to give up, I have to finish it. Oh, and yes, she has not hand.

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Halloween never diessss yaaaaaayy!!!

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drawing halloween why pumpkin charcoal jack o lantern student things i want to finish it

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shookehded

7 years ago

I was rereading Harry Potter. After four years. And Dumbledore is still one of my favourites. He's hilarious. ≧ω≦

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harry potter albus dumbledore dumbledore harry potter drawing

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shookehded

7 years ago

I’ve had this prompt generator I put together for a while now, so I thought I’d share the link for anyone who needs an inspiration. There are:

3 150 au ideas

900 humoristic sentence/dialogue prompts

85 other sentence prompts

180 movie/show/book AUs, 179 setting AUs, 84 profession AUs

56 relationship and 217 theme ideas

You can shuffle each category independently or just refresh the whole page . The generator works just as good on the phone.

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shookehded

5 years ago

Practice for my final project in school part 1 https://www.instagram.com/p/B8TqjyRiM2o/?igshid=1xt7mdjxwqe4f

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shookehded

5 years ago

Trabajando en mi historia...experimentando con el estilo de dibujo https://www.instagram.com/p/B0vqOn8AJ4g/?igshid=1tt9yf4pscxao

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shookehded

6 years ago

She’s a hidden princess.

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digital art my ocs oc digital drawing i was bored her name is evelyn i created her when i was 12 i really reaaly hope one day i'll publish her story

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shookehded

6 years ago

Apparently, in my school there are this…boxes. Chair boxes. Boxes that look like chairs. I don’t know, they are weird.

I’m starting to study FOL for my upcoming exam we don’t know when we will take, and I’m doing another Projects’s homework I’m still confused about, but it’s due tomorrow so… I must do it. Plus some drawings I did this week.

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6 years ago