Category: Lip Sync Animation

I spent some of the day designing the additional characters for my lip sync animation cycle, first I went on the hunt for some reference:

I didn’t want to labor over designing these characters for too long, as they’re only in use to establish scale and a little bit of narrative for my main character gigabyte:

I’m really happy with the way these characters turned out, and I think that their little composition is cute. I plan on having Facs be emitting light, like a photocopier, her eyes flickering over to the camera; I want Keyz typing on his keyboard and characters appearing on his monitor display; I will have Tef turn around to look at the camera whilst on the phone defensively, and Buzz will simply be floating up and down and will also turn around to face the camera.

I am feeling incredibly overwhelmed and burnt out, I would love to make some real headway with this animation this week and be asking for feedback moving towards the weekend.

Due to a dip in productivity, I wanted to bring my audio into rough animator on ipad so that I would be able to go to my local library and work, to get out of the house for a while. I followed this tutorial to get that working:

I also changed up the audio a bit, as per Alec’s feedback. He told me that the animation was a little long, and it might help to lighten the load by taking the bulk of Ali’s dialogue out, and just have her come in at the end to take Giga-Byte’s battery out and interact with him for a very short time. I also added a little break in between “What is wrong with you people?” and “We are office drones” so that the scene can cut to some office-robots performing administration tasks. Alec had mentioned that it was quite difficult to contextualise the surroundings and situation that my two characters were in, which made the animation hard to follow. I think by adding some administrative robots to cut to, will add a little bit of humour but also allow me to establish the scale of gigabyte and make it a little easier to introduce ali to the scene:

I also spent the evening making a rough story board for the animtion, to get my mind around the camera, movements etc:

I am planning to spend tomorrow working on the administration robot designs, and nailing their composition for their short few seconds on screen. I want to make sure that they’re well designed, and as they will have very minimal movement I believe that I am OK to use this time to focus on their design and layout.