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Animating consonant phonemes: B, T, and S
From the course: Learning Character Animation
Animating consonant phonemes: B, T, and S
Now let's take a look at the consonants. Consonants by nature are actually pretty short in terms of timing. So where a vowel could be many frames long, a consonant is usually only a few frames long. Now there are exceptions, such as M Which you could hold for a while, but typically they tend to be in the two to three frame range. So let's take a look at how to do some simple consonants. We're going to start with B. So let's go ahead and listen to our track. >> B >> So as you can see, it's a very simple track here. The B starts right here. And then goes into E. Now we could also do something like bah or bow, but let's just work with e here. So, first thing I want to do is get the shape for the b. Now, typically the shape happens before the vowel. So in this case, I'm going to go just a little bit before that vowel here. So I'm going to start at frame two and lock in my pose here. So I'm going to go ahead and select my sliders here. Let's set a key for those. And then at frame four…
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Understanding phonemes3m 41s
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Animating vowel phonemes: A, E, and I7m 38s
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Animating vowel phonemes: O, U, and Y7m 27s
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Animating consonant phonemes: B, T, and S7m 43s
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Animating consonant phonemes: M, F, and L6m 2s
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Animating dialogue: Lip sync5m 58s
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Animating dialogue: Body motion4m 4s
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