Phoneme Chart by TheEndIsNearUs
This is a nice chart! Lipsync is one of my not-so-secret passions. I also hate front mouths. Theyâre harder to inbetween, I find, and theyâre not used nearly as frequently. Hereâs some Ÿ mouths I made.
These are the basic shapes I was taught, and I use. Standard lipsync shapes;;Â
You have your closed mouth to open, to clenched teeth, to oohs, and your (often optional) F, L, and TH mouths.
Tips!
Your top teeth donât move; Â I mean, stylistically it happens sometimes (Gravity falls does it fairly well, as much as I haaaaate that), but your lipsync will prolly look better if they donât.
My clenched teeth (SH) mouth is always a bit wider than my biggest AH mouth. It adds variation and helps your shapes blend more nicely. Conversely, my biggest AH mouth is narrower than my SH mouth and my closed (M) mouth.
My L mouth is a tiny bit more closed than my biggest AH, and not as closed as my second biggest AH. It fits between them nicely so that if you have to go from an L to an AH mouth, like you would for the word âLikeâ or âLoveâ, it doesnât pop or look weird.
My R and oo mouths move forward on the face a bit, it adds dimension, and if you leave it all in the same place and have the mouth just shrink into a circle it miiiight look weird.
Aaaaand I think thatâs it?  Never go from a SH mouth to a TH mouth, itâll pop and look weirdâŠuhhh;  Also! Itâs alright to skip some shapes;; So below is a lipsync I made using the above shapes;
Itâs clear what theyâre saying, the mouth is moving nicely, but thereâs only one problem. Veeeery rarely do they give you enough time to use all the mouths you want to make it move nice. Voice actors talk fast to fit everything in and holycrap do we hate  love them for it.
So hereâs a fast one.
Those two gifs should start at the same time, and notice that the second one stops while the first one is still saying âdoingâ. I not only cut out the mouth between the biggest AH and the clenched teeth, but I combined the word âAre youâ into, like, 3 shapes. I also trimmed some inbetweens overall. The lipsync still reads, though! You can still tell what theyâre saying even without audio (which would help it a bit, haha~) Cutting out that stuff ended the lipsync a whole 14 frames sooner (more than half a second!). It doesnât sound like much, but with 24 frames per second and dialogue moving at the speed of light, you donât have time to dilly dally. This isnât a preschool show;; Aaaaaand I think thatâs it. Liiiipsyyyyyync~~~ Now to go back to actual work and stop talking about things most ppl donât care about;
I AM CRYING TEARS OF RELIEF BECAUSE I NEED THESE REFERENCES FOR MY SENIOR FILMâS DIALOGUE~
Reblogging this again because Iâve been using this reference for the last 2 months to help with my lip-synch in my film, and Iâve just tested one scene where I used the referenceâŠAnd my mouth-drawings have improved tenfold ever since.
To the OP who made this chartâŠI wish I could hug you right now because you helped make my film look much better. c8
This post makes its rounds every so often;; Iâm glad people are getting use out of me not wanting to do the actual work I had!
Iâm putting this here for some future reference
