Mouth shapes from a side view?

SpaceBoy64 · Post by **SpaceBoy64** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:01 pm

Has anyone ever had to create mouth shapes for lip sync in a side view?

I'm doing silhouette characters. Do I need to make the mouth separate to make a switch layer? What would be the best way to do this? I have to convey emotion too, which will be tough without showing eyes.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:42 pm

You'll need to include the head, or at least part of it, into each switch layer, because you need to "cut out" a portion of it with each mouth shape. You can do that with a mask, or with arranging the points of the head outline (be sure to have enough points in tehre from the start).

SpaceBoy64 · Post by **SpaceBoy64** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:02 pm

Is there any problem with using the entire head, or the body in the switch layer?

Are there any examples of mouths shapes out there?

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:45 pm

it might work to have a head shaped masked by switch layer containing shapes for each mouth? ...in theory...

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:12 pm

Ah, that's a good idea. This way you even can have interpolation, since the mask is vector.

Just tried it:
http://www.slowtiger.de/examples/maskswitch.mov

SpaceBoy64 · Post by **SpaceBoy64** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:12 pm

Thanks. That would work.

I have been looking at the morph dials script. The switch layer might work better for the lip sync though.

Too much time goes by in between animation jobs. I forget about these things.