How to animate a mouth in side view?

Question

I'm doing a small animation that features a simple sea turtle eating a piece of grass in the ocean.

I'm drawing the sea turtle based on this drawing:

https://pngtree.com/freepng/sea-turtle_1978085.html

However I'm not sure how to animate it so that the turtle's mouth will open and close as it picks up the piece of grass.

I normally would use the Puppet tool, and put pins on either side of the mouth, so that it can open and close, and then keyframe it, but it looks very distorted.

Is there another way that I could get a side view of the mouth opening, closing and chewing?

Appreciate any tips or tricks! Thank you!

Rick Gerard · Answer

I would split the image into two layers. One layer would have the top part of the jaw and the other would have the bottom. Then you could use puppet pin to move both parts of the jaw to get a convincing animation. It will take a bit of effort to cut out the two images and make sure that there is a clean background on the bottom copy.

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