Creative Research - Lip Syncing

After one of our seminars from Martin about lip syncing, I realised that I wasn't very experienced in this area. The thought of lip syncing seemed like quite a tricky one to me, however Martin let us in on a secret. He said that it is possible to get away with only using a select few phonemes. At this point I was preparing to start work on my applied animation with Emma, and we were going to need to include lip-syncing. For some reason, before this point I had imagined it to be very long, difficult task.

However, I didn't think about the facf that some phonemes can be reused for more than one sound, which saved a lot of time! This seminar was very useful because it taught me some key facts:

• Sound can come a couple of frames early but NOT LATE
• If it looks too jittery, just include the vowel sounds only

This was definitely very useful for me, because I actually found the lip syncing process to be quite satisfying and enjoyable. I have also found that it has made me more aware of lip syncing in any animation I watch.