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Understanding phonemes

Understanding phonemes

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Understanding phonemes

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Now, let's move on to dialog and lip sync. Now, when a character talks, his mouth or the shape of his mouth moves to match prerecorded dialog. Now, these shapes are known as phonemes. Now, each sound that the mouth makes has a specific shape that is associated with it, And by stringing these shapes together, we create animation. So, the first thing I want you to do is to understand the basic shapes. There are two categories of shapes. There are vowels and consonants. Now, vowels are open mouth sounds, and consonants are closed mouth sounds. So, let's take a look at the vowels first. The first vowel is a, and as you noticed, this is basically an open mouth with a hint of a smile in it. So, typically with an a you have a little bit of the top teeth showing. The next one is e, and this is a little bit wider, and the teeth are showing in this particular phoneme. Now, if we go on to i, you could see it's actually very similar to the a shape except it's kind of, without the smile. So, it's…

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