Friday, 30 September 2016

Lip Sync Update

Lip Sync Update

This is a link to my progress so far on the lip sync animation.
Over the last few days I have been working more on this lip syncing animation. I should note that I “wasted” a few hours yesterday trying to get image planes working in Maya to allow me to import my reference footage directly onto them. I got close but not close enough…
Anyway, I have finished working on the mouth for today but I think it could still do with a little bit more tweaking to get the timing just right. I also think that when I start animating the body, I will have to adjust the mouth accordingly to fit with it, but I anticipate that won’t be too much of a struggle.
Most of the videos on lip syncing in 3D animation start off with the body then the head then finishes on the mouth/face but I genuinely have found it more intuitive to start with the mouth and then work out from there. This is only my first lip sync so I could find that is doesn’t work but because it felt intuitive to me I thought that I should try it that way first to see if it would work. Even if the professionals are right in doing the body first I still feel it is important for me to learn myself through practice. If I am wrong in doing the mouth first, then it will surely come through in the quality of my work and will teach me for next time.

Summary:

This animation still needs facial animation as well as body animation to finish it. Only then can I give it a proper analysis. That should be close to complete by the end of the week.

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