Lip Sync Update

Lip Sync Update

This is a link to my latest playblast for my first lip sync animation. 

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

Today is Friday and I have a progress pitch (not graded) this coming Tuesday. This lip sync has been completed in a sense for this pitch. It is not perfect but it’s as close as I feel I can get it  to for this pitch. This pitch will be a guide for the lecturers to assign us a mentor for the remaining year. I hope to get feedback on this lip sync from a lecturer within the next couple of weeks. I know that they will be able to provide plenty of critique on it.

At the moment I have been reading a lot about acting and about applying acting theory to animation and I have been trying to apply that to my lip sync animation where I could. Again, I have gone against what these books have told me and I have started with the lips then moved onto the rest of the face, it has seemed to work out for me but I won't know for sure until I get some proper critique on it.

Summary:

This first lip sync has been a bit monotonous at times but it has also been enjoyable at other times. I think because I’ve been working on it on and off for the last few weeks it has allowed me to keep going back to it with fresh mind. I think for my first attempt it has been reasonably successful, if not in the final outcome then in the learning at least. I have really felt (more so than other animations) I have really thought more about acting theory and the principles while animating. The final goal is to be able to apply them efficiently and successfully.