LIP SYNC

When it came to animating the lip sync for the two lines needed, I found myself having to improvise. I had done all line work so far in Animate CC, and it came to the scenes with the lip sync, I decided to animate the body language first. However when I came to importing the audio into Animate CC, there was a problem. For some reason, the sound just was not playing in Animate , and since I didn't have a huge amount of time to spare, I decided I would get through it quicker if I chose to animate the lip sync in Photoshop instead.


Resolution to this:

I did this by rendering out the mouthless character animation as a PNG sequence, and then with in photoshop I imported the sound and animated the lips from there. This actually turned out to be so much easier and quicker than I had expected! I wouldn't normally go about that in this way, however for this circumstance I'm glad I did.

Phonemes

Although the character that speaks has a very small mouth, I still felt it necessary to create some phoneme reference in order to make the animating easier. This definitely helped!