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agile_Companion5587
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May 27, 2025
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Problem with Lip Sync and Layer Parenting in Adobe Animate

  • May 27, 2025
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Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on an animation in Adobe Animate and ran into an issue with combining lip sync and parenting.

Here's the situation:
I have a character with multiple layers, and I’ve set up parenting between them (Photo1). Now, I want to apply automatic lip sync to the Head layer, but when I do this, it seems to override or interfere with the parenting setup. The parented layers to Head no longer follows the Head movement properly.

My goal is to have the Head layer move slightly up and down while my character is talking (Mouth layer is also using lipsync) while other layers(Eyes and Browns) are still following the parented motion of the Head layer.

Is there a workaround or a best practice for combining lip sync and parenting in Adobe Animate? I don't want to animate each frame manually.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

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n. tilcheff
n. tilcheff
Legend
May 27, 2025

All facial features should be nested inside the head symbol, which is run as a synced timeline.

Lipsync is done internally, inside the head symbol.

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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agile_Companion5587Author
Participant
May 27, 2025

I’ve nested all facial features into the Head symbol (Photo2). The Mouth layer is lipsynced and works correctly on the main timeline. I still don’t understand how this is supposed to help me move the Head using lipsync while preserving the parenting of other layers — in the video, you’re moving the character manually, frame by frame. I’ll show the effect I created manually (Film1). I’d like the movement of the mouth and head to be animated using lipsync.

n. tilcheff
n. tilcheff
Legend
May 28, 2025

If you expect auto lipsync to animate your character, your expectations are unrealistic.

 

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation
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