Sesame Street Sound Archive

For animators looking for inspiration for some cartoony animation with dialogue, one great place to search is the Sesame Street Sound Archive, which you can find here. 

The Sesame Street Sound Archive is full of cartoony audio clips, which work well with cartoony characters such as Mr Buttons and also the Willy rig.  

To get started, try picking a very short line of dialogue, download it and then drag and drop it into your timeline in Maya. To see more about how to use audio files in Maya, follow this link.  To see more about how to use the "Willy" rig, see this blog post.

Resources on Animating Dialogue and Lipsync

To see more resources on animating dialogue and lipsync, see the links below:

• Dialogue and Lipsync Tutorial
• The Secret to Animating Dialogue and Lipsync
• Speed Lipsync - How to animate lipsync fast and efficiently
• Why animators need "Head Muppeting"
• Why animators need thumbnail sketches
• How to plan out a dialogue shot

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