21 Lip Sync 2

You have completed your jabber and it looks pretty good but you notice that there are a few places that just don't feel right. You need a few specific mouth shapes to make it work perfectly. This does not mean you need to change every single sound, just the ones that stand out.

First, google lip sync mouth shapes and find a guide that is in the same direction and gender as your character.

Next create a new symbol and name it your characters name mouth shapes ex. Duncan's mouth shapes

Bring in the old mouth so that you have a reference as to size

Make a new layer

Click the outline view of the old layer

Return to the second layer and draw the desired mouth shape

Then go back and delete the original layer that you used as a size guide

Go back to your scene

Find the area on the timeline that you want the new mouth shape and insert a new keyfram where you want that shape to start and then add another where you want it to end

Make sure you know what size the old mouth was so you can set the new mouth to the same size.

Delete the old mouth and put in the new mouth

Reset the size and set it to play a single frame and select the frame of the mouth shape you desire.

When making a new mouth shape use the same graphic and just add a blank keyframe, because this graphic will never loop you only need one frame per image.

Test your animation by pressing command return.

When you have a lip sync that works, (three distinct mouth shapes for the assignment) Make sure you save your work and test the movie one last time then use Swivel to make a m4v and upload to youtube.