How to make lip sync animation easy!

[ShadowMaskTheCat]

woah. this is extremely helpful! thanks for uploading this

[multiwolflover1]

ty soo much ive been animation mouths like just opening and closing and not looking realistic but you helped me soo much ty ty ty!!

[sck8000]

I've been wanting to get some good animations done for quite a while, but it's only recently that I've had enough free time to get some done. Lip synching is one of those areas I've never been clear on, and this video really helps! Thanks a bunch! :D

[brklyn1990]

Hey DJ, the video was very helpful, I was expecting to see you actually animate lip syncs in a program, but this video helped me understand how to think about the lip sync even before I enter the program. I was wondering do you have a video on the Micro Expression?

[thadeej]

@brklyn1990 We've got a lot in the pipeline for Animation Salvation. I'd like to do a video on micro-expressions though. We'll see what we can do!

[lnowlin]

wow awesome. Stumbled on this for 2D animation class - and had no idea about the micro-expressions. Very informative that was a well spent 11 minutes thanks mate ;). God bless.

[Lauritheartist]

Thanks so much for this video - it really helped and it was really entertaining watching! =)

[legolandcam]

thanks

[93ChaosTheory]

great video :D

[XiuhcoatlWesley]

This is actually fantastic - thanks very much for your time to produce this, it's helped me so much with my studies! I really appreciate it :')

[Pvvnsavv]

Good video man, this was really helpful for me, especially that bit with the arm on the table so you can tell when your jaw is opening. I subscribed to your channel and will check out some of the other videos when I have the time.

[Courax]

Hey, great vid!

I was wondering what exactly is meant with Extreme Keys, Storytelling keys and Inbetween keys, i heard you mention 2 of those terms, but i can't really find the exact meaning of them. An example in your explanation would really help clarify ;).

Thanks

[thadeej]

@Courax Great question!

1) Storytelling Keys are any keys or poses that need to be there in order to tell the story. This could be something like pointing, shrugging, or getting hit in the face. These keys tell the story of the scene you are animating.

2) Extreme Keys are keys that mark an extreme in the motion of anything, such as the peak of a bounce (it's extreme high) or when it contacts the ground (it's extreme low). Extremes usually occur just before a change of direction...

[thadeej]

@Courax

...and so mark the "extreme" position of that object, limb or character for that particular motion.

3) Inbetween Keys are keys that are put "in-between" all other keys to better describe the movement. The inbetween usually determines if the object travels on a curve, slows in or out, and basically helps to polish the animation.

I hope those explanations help!

[kvector]

3:07

That's not the way people talk...

3:18

We 're not muppets...

Some of us ARE a bit...

Anyway that's another story

[feavyourvideo]

so... why the laptop? seems like that was mighty pointless...

[aniPrashanth76]

it is really very use full good class and explain about body movements on action and give me some advise about my animation clippings watch on

[fabbasi00]

Fantastic tips. I was always interested in learning the ways of the pros. You really nail it down! Thanks and keep the tips comming.

[Sivispacemparab]

just getting into stop motion and I think these ten minutes taught me more than I could have ever expected. Thanks so much

[Schmaurens]

Hey there, thanks for the tips! I'm working on a traditional 3D cut-out lipsync animation for school. I really want to get the right mouth shapes before I can start animating it. Any tips for that?

[thadeej]

@Schmaurens yeah, don't use traditional mouth shapes. All you need is: Wide, Narrow, Open, Closed. If you want to go a bit extra, then add an "M" shape and an "F/V" shape.

From there you then just add in the emotions.

[hellzfist]

awesome! 5/5! i would assume your talking about 3D animation considering you mentioned weight to the animation. i work with 2D animation and i use flash CS3. soon to be upgrading to CS5. regardless of 3D or 2D this was very helpful.

[shlulia]

hey thank you the video was great and so clear

[sinvoodoo]

hahaha best quote evar!! 08:11 hes like popeye and hes like EHHH!!!

[cpsstudios]

You're the man!! Killer podcast! Great teacher. Don't think your wrong... I think you're spot on. Will sign up for the newsletter.

blog @ artofcps.blogspot.com

Keep 'em comin'.

[msjastad]

Awesome tips!!

How do you decide on mouthshapes? I'm kind of struggling with getting the shapes right.

Otherwise a super helpful video :) Love the fist under the chin trick!!

[thadeej]

@msjastad - For mouth shapes I just feel whether my mouth is wide or narrow and open or closed. I try to stay away from traditional phonemes where you sculpt all of the different letter sounds. If you stick with wide-narrow and open-closed you will have very convincing facial animation. Then you just put in the F's, V's, P's and TH's wherever necessary.

I hope that helps!

[msjastad]

@thadeej - Thanks!! I'll give it a go, it's a bit difficult though because I suck at drawing and can't seem to get the mouth to look on my character, he's slight of at a 3 quarter view and I can't seem to rotate the straight or side view, + my character (Viktor Van Vending) is a vampire vending machine.. And I want the fangs to always show, is this a good idea? Or should I try and close the mouth fully?

[OScartoon64]

Very helpful. Interesting techniques too.

[mjsfreitas]

Great Tips!

[MrBecaco]

Wonderful tips, thank you very much

[sureshpadmaraj]

oh i was always scared about lip sync sir , thanx a lot .. but can we know more about you ?? ,, where are you working ?? how many years have u been animating ,,

[AlStew08]

Just starting out on flash, i found this very useful, cheers!

[Bladevampirek]

ok i've got a question what about if u already drawed a good sketch of a front view and a side view but you want to make them turn at an angle where they are not front view or side view but some where in the middle , what is the best and fast'est way to sketch this out while keeping the details of your charector.

[marcelkade]

This is very helpful!!

[vishwa47]

great tips thank u very much

[micktunes100]

thanks mate

[LilStinkyDude3]

Thanks so much, you don't know how much this helps! Until I watched this video I was practically clueless as how to animate people talking..

[rapnrocknroll]

this was really informative !

i subscribed !!

[TiniNormi]

Great tips, I'm gonna try this on my claymation stuff.

[jfallahi]

Thanks. Doing my first facial animation today and this helps out.

[Aiicyla]

Thank you soo muchh <33 This helps SO much

[justMaxguys]

I start to learn Lip animation. This is very helpful. Thanks.

[Tinak00777]

wow grate tips will use :)

[haycocksd1]

Wow, please, please keep doing these podcasts. Really informative and insightful pieces. Thanks so much.

[max7028]

thanks for the tips..........

[armondtanz]

got some really juicy tips off this guy. been struggling on this topic so nice 1 hope theres more in the pipeline

[KSJ1989]

hi deej, really excellent video by the way. I was just wondering if you could point me in the direction of the best way to rig a characters face. I use maya and my current method is creating blend shapes for everything and adjusting each blend shape value in the attribute editor. I thought I had the whole process nailed down until I saw people moving everything with controllers around the face, which looks much more logical. Do you know of any good tutorials on this? Thanks for your time:)

[TheRamJing]

thankyou very much, am struggling so much with lipsyncing for my project at the moment and i'll be using these tips to help =)

[xLestath]

Thank you! your tips are pretty helpfull. ^^

[00shdin0]

Thanks man. Very helpful.. The easest and best tips I ever got in animation so far.

[linuxva]

thanks ! good stuff !

[xis10ce]

the fist under the chin method is genius!

[TheMhpe]

Good video. Very useful workflow for lip syncing. Thanks for posting.

[3DisFuntastic]

Great video!! Thanks!!

[erickaustria]

VERY VERY HELPFUL TIPS THANKS MAN