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Final Animation, Including portfolio link:

Art Station – Lip Sync Animation.

Animation for the Creative Industries – Beginning Lip Sync Assignment

Lip Sync Project – Progress!

Lip Sync Animation – Additional Character Designs.

Lip Sync Animation – Mixing up lip sync audio, preparing timing for lip syncing.

Lip Sync Animation – Looking for references and roughs.

Lip Sync Animation – In between frames, cleaning up timing, line art

Lip Sync Animation – Complete animation.

Self Reflection:

I was pretty determined to get audio that fit the two characters that I am using for my animation assignments this year: I was really excited and had a pretty clear idea of what I was going to go for when I heard the audio I used. I am extremely grateful to Alec for giving me the idea of the office drone segment, and for suggesting I add her throwing the battery over her shoulder, as I believe that these changes solidified the narrative I was aiming for.

Over all, I’m happy with how this turned out – this was my first attempt at lip syncing, and I gave myself almost double the amount of seconds to animate for the assignment – I believe this came out well, I worked incredibly hard on it. I like the movement that I applied to both Ali and Gigabyte, I feel that I managed to portray acting in their segments. Additionally, I was determined to use more of a range of software to complete this animation, and I jumped between Adobe Animate, Rough Animator, and used Procreate only for clean up and I’m really pleased that I stuck with that. I’ve found using Adobe Animate very challenging, but much more effective.

That being said, there’s a lot I want to improve upon: I think that the lip sync itself could have been much better. I found myself struggling quite a bit to keep the lip sync movement in good time with the character’s acting movements, I think the lip sync itself suffered as a consequence. I should have animated the mouth movements on different layers. I’m also pretty unhappy with how flat and un-dynamic everything feels, I would love to spend a bit more time next time focusing on camera movement, more interesting camera angles, as I feel very self conscious about how simple and flat my animations feel over all. I also don’t feel that my drawing is particularly strong in these animations.

In conclusion, I feel a little self-conscious about my abilities with this one, however I’m pleased with how far I’ve come since first semester and proud of this first attempt at a lip sync animation.

 

I went in search of references and a bit more information before starting block out for my mouth — I also watched Sarah and Alec’s tutorials again, to try and get an idea of what I wanted to do — I realised that I needed to pay more attention to the movement of the characters before prioritising the lip syncs. I’m happy with the beginning expressions but I’m finding it difficult when I hit the ‘office drone’ portion of my animation.

I also used some references of old toy robots, as when Gigabyte enters the second section of his monologue, the “we are office drones portion” I wanted to have him transform/transition into something stiffer, more robotic, because he is mimicking a robot/mocking a robot when in reality he has fluid movements and is life like, his personality is playful and silly, so I hoped that this would convey that.

Ref

I made up the rough interum shot for my office robots:

I’m not 100% sure of the layout of this yet, I might make the right hand side photocopier/fax machine robot bigger and take it off of the file stack, and perhaps only have it run a scan once instead of it cutting off during a second scan. It looks a bit odd to me.

I then put it into a prem pro file with my audio and prev. lip sync to get a better idea of timing:

Now I will export all of the separate elements of audio, and begin animating the rough pass following my ‘storyboard’. I can reference this for mouth shapes. I’m intending on animating on a mixture of Rough Animator and Adobe animate, and then I will tidy up in procreate. I also intend on animating these in segments, so that I have room to play around with timing when I bring it into premier pro later.

I will spend this week acting on feedback from Alec after roughs are finished, and then cleaning up the line art. Next week I will colour the animation ready for submission and I will add it to my showreel!

I used the following as reference for the robot segment:

https://images1.the-dots.com/1615475/tocop-matiere.gif?p=socialLarge

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55eaaf6ee4b0cee52300e94c/1601758046883-WVDH0HD3IXFR996SGJ8M/_TheOffice_PhotoCopier_LOOP_1920x1080.gif?format=2500w