How can I animate this character mouth?

Hi,

OK,

Phonemes - This approach (to me) is a little more work intensive (a lot more actually). You apply the time remap effect to your layer, and you create a comp with a full set of mouth shapes (phonemes). You then move slowly through your project (holding CTRL) and you can hear the voice in the layer. At every specific "Sound shape" A, EE, OH, etc, you tell the comp to flash that specific mouth shape at that frame. that waym when these shapes are flashing around, it looks like a moving mouth. There is a lot of effort, timing and patience required in this mode, but, it is free, and with a little work on creating good looking mouth's it works well enough. It DOES work better with cartoon characters than photo realistic type characters.

Auto lip-Synch - This is by far a much easier approach (once again, in my opinion) - you remove any sound from your footage layer, add a sound layer seperatley, select the video layer, and the app finds the voice and creates the mouth for you. It also has the ability to warp the face around the mouth that moves, making the movement look much more realistic. And, the added bonus, is that the mouth will look like it belongs to the face.

You can then edit the mouth afterwards , change how wide it gets at points, the shape of it, even the amount of closure to make an "oh" shape.

It really is the easiest that I have found to date - All in my humble opinion!

Pierre