How can I improve mouth shapes for better lip-sync

[cesaarta]

Hello,

I'm having a hard time to get this parrot puppet right. It's my first time making an animal puppet, and I can't seem to find a good material on bird lip-sync for animation. It's more of a design problem. Can anyone help me please?

- cheerio

[oksamurai · Accepted solution]

Oh man, good question - this is new to me. If I were you I'd rent Aladdin and see how they do Iago's mouth. Or find any other animated bird as reference material and go frame-by-frame to see how they do different mouth shapes.

[cesaarta]

Ohh, I forgot about Iago, good call! I'll look for it. Thank you.

[Joxhuz]

Hey do you have a link to these mouth shapes? i would love to use them on a eagle puppet im working on.