Animation 11: Lip Syncing

In today's animation class we were introduced to x-sheets which is what you use to plan out an animation frame-by-frame, and lip syncing to audio clips. We had to use an existing audio clip to plan out and produce lip syncing to it. I used this helpful page to help with the different mouth shapes:

I choose an audio clip from the website 11secondclub.com and then started planning out the frames.

I had some trouble doing this because in the audio clip I chose, the person is talking quite fast and so I had trouble pinpointing the exact letters I needed to use and which exact frames to put them on.

Therefore the lip syncing is quite out of time in places, especially at the end, but I am still quite happy with what I achieved seeing as this was my very first time using x sheets and trying to lip sync to audio.

After I had planned out all of the frames I drew out the different mouth shapes following the helpful page:

My drawn out mouth Shapes

I then followed my x-sheet to put all of the mouth shapes together to create the movement of the character's mouth. I used adobe animate to do this, and so I exported it as a image sequence before taking it into premiere to put the video together with the audio:

I'm hoping to go back to this at some point and hopefully improve it!