Introduction and First Stages: Lip Syncing

For this assessment, I had to develop and produce an animation where an animated character would speak dialogue by synchronizing lip movement with the audio. To achieve this, a series of software programs and techniques were required, specifically the 3D animation software, Autodesk Maya, although producing the animation in 2D is optional.

For the choice of dialogue, I went through a series of ideas before finally settling on what I assumed would be a good sketch. So I typed down lines of dialogue that may be good for the script and then I simply constructed the script with some camera angles and descriptions of the characters. The script is shown in the next post. 


Below are a few links of research on the subject of character animation.


http://www.animationarena.com/character-animation-tutorials.html


http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/05/character-animation-tutorials-and-more-from-robert-powers.html


http://www.cgindia.org/2006/05/tutorial-character-animation.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwkIuFG6-2U


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-foUw-27keY&feature=related


http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-lip-sync-animation