The lip sync tutorial they DONâT give you
I mentioned on twitter that I wanted to do a lip sync tutorial and immediately got some people who were interested so I put one together real quick!
Iâm going to use a bit of unfinished lip sync from my taz animated part as reference. Theyâre just gifs so no sound, but you should still be able to tell that heâs saying âIâd say a solid B⊠Solid B minus.â
Anyone whoâs looked up how to do lip sync has seen phoneme charts. Phonemes are just the shape your mouth makes when you make certain sounds.
When you do lip sync, you want some kind of reference to make sure itâs right
Whatâs easiest is to say it yourself and pay attention to the shapes your mouth is making. Since youâre going frame by frame, your audio is slow enough that you can make each shape slowly and distinctly and you can get each individual phoneme down in the animation.
An easy way to tell if youâre animating lip sync wrong is if you run out of frames to make each shape. You donât need them! Making each shape is unnatural. People talk quickly and the mouth doesnât have the time to get into each shape. They blend together, sometimes to the point where the shape doesnât change at all!
Not only does the 2nd gif take less frames and energy to make, itâs more relaxed, it looks less distracting, and his lips are much easier to read!
These are reference charts to show the differences more clearly
This is the difference between getting swallowed up in every last detail and paying attention to reality.
What matters more than hitting every syllable is making it look natural and flow with the acting. Thatâs why anime mouth flaps can work so well. A strong pose through the whole body matters more than one mouth shape.
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