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How can I animate this character mouth?

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
April 20, 2013
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Hello, How can I animate this character mouth

like he is talking.

is there a way?

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Pierre Devereux

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Hi,

I must chime in and agree with Rick! We use Auto lip-sync for all our character mouths. The ease, and functionailty are endless! Also, using it in conjunction with the the liquify tool etc, you can even create some very nice faceial movements (smile grimace etc).

I reckon this tool shoulod be considered as a standard part of any adobe installation!

Pierre

PS, here is a link to a great tutorial for using time remapping and phoneme layers:

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/lip_synch.php

Pierre

Message was edited by: Pierre Devereux

Netcommercial

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Is this pretty much the only way to get Lip Sync? http://aescripts.com/auto-lip-sync/# In other words this is an add-on written for AE?

Thanks

Netcommercial

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The Auto Lip Sync script is a great add on but it is not the only solution. There are hundreds of techniques. It all depends on the look you want. Phonomes as an image sequence and time remapping works very well for some 'looks.' There are dozens of tutorials. I'd search through a few of them and pick the technique that most closely matches the look you want. None of the solutions are automatic one click solutions. They all require some editing.

Well as most... we would like the path of least resistance. To me the one you suggested looks pretty straight forward, right down to the switch out of the Voice over. I am unclear on the Phonomes...I did see they are the shape a mouth would or should be when enunciating a word or letter.

I am under the impression, that AE add on will use my voice over and move the layer for me? Is that wishful thinking or did I get it correct?

I would like to have a program that will move the mouth for me. Like an attorney. LOL! No, JK. I would like to be able to lay the voice over track in a program and have it animate it according to the vowel or consenant sounds... That is how that one you shared appeared to me. Although I am not sure how the program would know which layer to animate... Not to jack this thread, I am on point and just delving further into the OP's desire.

R

Rick Gerard

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I agree on the layers. You need a face with no mouth and then mouth shapes for the common phonemes or use the puppet tool on some mouth shapes. There are lots of lip sync tutorials on the web for AE. You might also want to look at this auto lip sync system from my friend Mathias Möhl. I've worked with it and it's great. There are some tutorials on his page and a link to the plug-in.

Netcommercial

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Right on Rick, very cool share. I will be diving into that this week. Fun Stuff!

Netcommercial

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You will need to take that into Photoshop and create layers for the mouth. IE: a match of the jaw to lip. Then import into AE as Layers. Then use the Pin tool to make his mouth open and close. Think of two layers. A the whole guy as we see him and then a second layer for his mouth movement. Where you will erase the mouth under the 2nd layer so it will be Black when open.

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