Lip Syncing

Lip Syncing

Yesterday I started a lip sync file with Franklin (https://artella.leadpages.co/artella-character-giveaway/)

I have come across some useful resources for helping me with my first lip sync. Firstly, I have acquired the audio clip from the 11 second club: http://www.11secondclub.com/. I have also been using their forums to get some tips on lip syncing.

Digital Tutors: 

This is roughly a two and a half hours course that will be good for refernce when doing my own lip syncs.

Build Convincing Facial Animations: Tutor: Delano Athias:

http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/65-Facial-Animation-in-Maya

Youtube:

Lip Sync Tutorial: AnimationMethods:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2hjRNODVXQ&feature=youtu.be

3D Animation Masterclass: Acting Tutorial High lights: Kyle Balda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZYTmE5XJhw&feature=youtu.be 

How to make lip sync animation easy: DJ Nicke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKjMvlP4CE&feature=youtu.be 

This video below is perhaps one of the most useful videos I have come across for lip syncing. This isn't a tutorial for doing the animations in Maya but it is rather how the man prepares himself for the lip syncing process. It involves him actually taking his reference footage and applying it to a plane in Maya and matching it up to the audio on the timeline in the scene. This seems incredibly useful and might actually make me feel the benefits of reference footage.

Lipsync Tutorial: Jason Ryan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sTOgnkto-A

Summary:

This has prepared me for continuing my lip syncing next week, at the start of next week I plan to go through the Digital Tutors course and then collect my reference footage to then go back to the animation. For the rest of today I am going to do some case studies of various styles of animations.