From the course: Learning Character Animation
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Animating dialogue: Lip sync
From the course: Learning Character Animation
Animating dialogue: Lip sync
Let's go ahead and put it all together, by actually animating a line of dialogue. We're going to start by animating the four and then we'll get the rest of the character involved. Now this is just a simple head and shoulder shot. But, this will give you an idea as to the process of animating dialogue. So let's go ahead and start by listening to our track. >> I can speak now, I can speak now, I can speak now. >> So the character is saying I can speak now. And if you look at the wave form, you can actually see this. So this first little blip here is I. Then we have can speak. So the can is actually in between these two. Again the vowels tend to be the large wave forms. That's can. Speak s. Speak. >> Speak. And is the last one is now. >> Now. >> So, as you can see, you can actually look at the wave forming kind of get a sense for where things are lying. And this will help with your timing. So, I'm going to go ahead and start with our neutral pose. Now, if your character has a facial…
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