Lip Synching Tip #1: Careful not to use too many phonemes on the timeline
by Administrator on Jul.02, 2010, under Technical Production Notes, all about Edgar
Much is available to read about lip-synching…much of it very solid. After lip-synching three characters in this production. I have discovered few tips which I did not read/notice before. Maybe they will help you with your production. Here is the 1st.
Over animating the mouth is easy to do…error on the side of less movement.
After making a dozen phoneme’s, I find myself overly eager to use them for every sound in a word. It is useful (at least for me) to under-animate the lips for my first pass then add more phonemes if needed.
Phoneme Timing (my averages):
I am averaging about one phoneme per three or four frames (with a 29.9 frames per second animation). Only about twice a sentence am I putting two phonemes with only one frame separation.
