“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said” – Peter Drucker

Okay! Lets just start of with what we we’re assigned, the brief was a simple lip sync, sounds easy enough right, animate the lips moving to the audio….no, turns out not that simple:

Reading brief for first time: We had to make the jaw move too…

Internal thoughts: “okay, I can do that too I think”

Reading brief: Oh and the eyebrows and maybe even the eyes too…

Internal thoughts: “sure I can try to give it a go, it should turn out fine I think”

Hearing audio for first time: …..okay, so its a Russian voice, who’s words sound nothing like what she’s saying…..

Internal thoughts: “….why animation, why!…”

Allow me to elaborate more to explain my internal freaking out:

What’s being said:

“I was supposed to be at the opera, but it was not to my taste. Tell me, do you sing, or will I be the one singing *laughter*. Tell me, do you swing?”

What I hear (no matter how many times I listen to it)

“I vas supposed to be at the opera but it vas not to my taste. Tell me do you sink or will I be the one singing *cue manly laughter*. Tell me, do you swim?”



…its probably for the best if you just hear it…it looks pretty though!

I know how it looks, very Disney like, I’ll take that as a compliment (because who doesn’t like Disney, I for one enjoyed my childhood!)

Aside from being a love letter to the Disney way of drawing, as expected, this animation has its problems, the main one for example being the (manly) laugh, the different mouths I had just didn’t seem to work too well with the audio of the laugh, Im not exactly sure why, maybe there needs to be more mouths, or they need to be different designs, I don’t know, I’ll figure it out one day.

But for now thats my lip sync done!

I’ll be back soon, with the walk cycle I expect!

Until then!

*UPDATE: – 11th November – 01:00*

I showed Andy my lip sync yesterday in class, he thought it all looked good (thanks Andy) however he suggested an improvement. As I thought, the laugh didn’t quite look right, Andy suggested that I move the shoulders a little mid laugh, I agreed that sounds like a good idea that would improve the lip sync, so I’ll be making that tweak soon!