Mouth Movements

I forgot to make a post about the mouth movements that i worked out for the lip synch. I haven't don't a lip synch animation before so i feel a bit of pressure to get it done right. I have borrowed some books out of the library to make me feel a little more confident about the task. I read online that one of the ways to get accurate mouth movements is to look at yourself in the mirror and word out each letter of the alphabet and draw the mouth shapes at the widest point of each pronunciation. Once i had done this i could ban the letters into groups. I spent a good while doing this, all of my sketches are below to demonstrate how I worked it all out.


The Groups:

A and I

E

U

O

C, D, G, K, N, R, S, Y, Z

F and V

L and Th

M, B, P

W, Q

H, J, T, X.

UPLOAD IMAGES OF MOUTH MOVEMENTS


Once i worked out all of the mouth shapes for each letter and sound i decided to work out the main mouth movements for the speech. I want to be organised so i can see how the mouth moves should look, once i have done that i can manipulate the drawings to fit in with the doping sheet. So even though the word 'That's' is 5 letters long, it takes up 7 frames on the doping sheet.

1xTh  +  2xA  +  2xT  +  2xS  =  7 frames.