I'm posting this in stages as a record of workflow, from start to finish.
Inspired by the monthly competition at
https://www.11secondclub.com/ .and by now having sound in anim8or
Tho my animation and lip sync skills are not yet up to a standard worthy of entering into the 11second club, i'm hopeing that with enough practice i'll, one day, come up with a finished clip which is good enough to stand amongst entries posted by other 11second club animators, and at the same time, help to put Anim8or on the map as a capable piece of animation software.
So, i'm downloading the monthly audio clip from
https://www.11secondclub.com/and posting progress here on Anim8or.com
I have my own method of doing things, some probably correct, and some probably not. I think we find our own methods and workflows, and i basically work with what i feel comfortable with. It's always a learning thing and i'm happy to share any thoughts, ideas, tips and tricks which i have, and will, pick up on the way.
In the same vein, i welcome any questions, tips, tricks, comments and critiques from other anim8ors.
In the perfect scenario, we can all learn together.
As in normal animation, i have an order to how i do lipsyncing, and that is to 'block' it out for timing, and then tweak, improve and polish over the course of several 'passes'
The audio clip is a conversation between a male and female.
The first thing i've done is lipsynced both characters and got the timing about right.
Have just made the basic mouth movements, and nothing else. Next pass i'll add some expression to their faces, but no real eye movements until i begin to animate their positions relative to the scene and each other.
I find it best to do the majority of lipsync and facial movements before animating the characters. Once the characters get moving, it can be time consuming getting a view of their faces to animate, while they're moving around in the scene.
So, here is stage one of this months clip.
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...more to come...
