Tips for Animating Character Mouths
Some tips that I would suggest for doing this assignment would be:
Write a script FIRST, and record it. If you try to animate the mouth movement before you have the recording, you will spend a long time trying to accomplish something, only to have to redo it completely.
Another tip would be to use whatever programs you know the best. For my video, I used PowerDirector 11 to coordinate the mouth movement with the recording, and Windows Movie Maker to add the title and end slides. When I was matching the mouth movements, I started out trying to listen to the whole clip then adjust it appropriately, but I finally figured out that I could just listen to the part of the clip that corresponded with the mouth motion to make the movements match up.
A third tip is: the assignment is going to take a long, long time. Make sure to save your work often, and to have plenty of time set aside for completing the assignment. There's nothing worse than thinking it will take a short time, only to have it consume entire days of effort.
You can view my completed animation below.
Write a script FIRST, and record it. If you try to animate the mouth movement before you have the recording, you will spend a long time trying to accomplish something, only to have to redo it completely.
Another tip would be to use whatever programs you know the best. For my video, I used PowerDirector 11 to coordinate the mouth movement with the recording, and Windows Movie Maker to add the title and end slides. When I was matching the mouth movements, I started out trying to listen to the whole clip then adjust it appropriately, but I finally figured out that I could just listen to the part of the clip that corresponded with the mouth motion to make the movements match up.
A third tip is: the assignment is going to take a long, long time. Make sure to save your work often, and to have plenty of time set aside for completing the assignment. There's nothing worse than thinking it will take a short time, only to have it consume entire days of effort.
You can view my completed animation below.