Lipsync - Open Wide on the Big Vowels

Wide on the big vowels

When animating Lipsync, animators should always remember to open the mouth wide on the main vowels, especially "A", "EE", and "O" shapes.

The trick with animating good dialogue is to avoid the timing of the mouth shapes feeling soft and mushy. 

By opening wide on the big vowels, animators can get more texture into a dialogue shot, more "light and shade", so that the animation "hits the accents", and makes a more positive statement.

The timing of the open and shut of the jaw should be nice and snappy, with only a single frame ease-in to the wide mouth position.

Dialogue and Lipsync
Of course, there is a lot more to animating good Lipsync than this. For more discussion of how to animate dialogue and Lipsync well, take a look at the resources below:

Lipsync & Dialogue Resources
To see more resources on animating dialogue and lipsync, see the links below:

• How to block out a dialogue shot
• How to Animate Lipsync
• Sesame Street Sound Archive
• Animating Dialogue by Simone Giampaolo
• Animate Dialogue The Easy Way
• Dialogue & Lipsync Tutorials at our Vimeo Channel
  
  

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