Lip Sync

Character Bio

Name: Rachael
Age: 34 Years old
Marrital Status: Married
Religion: Agnostic, she believes in a life after this one
Humour: She has a dry and a little childish sense of humour
Health: She's quite athletic and healthy, but can't turn away a dessert.
Her Ipod: Ballads and Female Singers like Adele, Amy Winehouse, Paloma Faith
Habits: Bites her nails
Fears: That she'll be alone
Attire: nice loose clothes, mostly block earthy colours
Occupation: Office Administrator
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Hobbies: Reading, Painting, Watching soppy movies, Swimming
About: She's been married for 3years, she's a down to earth girl, likes walking the dog, meeting up with the girls, staying in with a take-away with the hubbie.



For the Lip sync audio I have chosen the "Believe" which say's this
"You keep telling yourself what you know, But What do you believe, What do you Feel"

I am using the Morpheus rig, and i have started off doing just the opens and closes of each word, i did this by counting syllables, and just using the jaw control to open and close the mouth.

"You Keep tell-ing your-self what you know, but what do you be-lieve, what do you feel"

I have also video recorded myself saying the line to see mouth shapes.



Here's a playblast of the open and closes, and the last sentence " What do you, feel" with shapes added in, i think the last word "Feel" works perfectly.



I used this website to help me pose the mouth shapes

www.garycmartin.com/mouth_shapes.html

I was watching Chicago and came across this scene, and thought it was very helpful for looking at opens & closes and the general mouth shapes, because you really focus on the mouth's, since the actors are trying to come across as puppets





I've added in the mouth shapes, i think there not too over the top now, because when i first keyed them they were way too exaggerated, so i toned them down, and i think they look more subtle now.



I've acted out the line a few times in this video, I wanted my character to be talking to another character, and showing alot of emotion through the face and hands.
I think i might have the character being sympathetic with the person she's talking to.


I've Blocked out the poses, I haven't done very many poses because i want the moving to seem subtle and so you concentrate more on the facial expressions.



I like the way the actress in this scene moves her head with every word and expression, it's just the subtle movements helping get across what shes saying and feeling.




I love the lip sync in this animation and the subtle head movements & eyebrow movements work perfectly on this, i want mine to be similar in the subtle movements



I think my animation is pretty much done, but i think the little tweaks i need to add in are, tone the head movements down just a little because when she says what you know, she moves her head to much when it should just be a little nod, so she's disagreeing with her body language aswell. And the believe head nod needs to be toned down, because it looks like shes head banging, and i want it to be subtle head jerks like my reference videos above.

My Final Rendered Lip Sync