Assignment: Create an animated avatar of yourself (or some other character) talking. Your talking animation should be “LIP SYNC-ed” to your recorded voice. Add blinking and eyebrow movements, etc. as finishing touches.
Lesson 1: Tour of Adobe Animate App -principles of animation:
Basic drawing tools/navigation
-try classic brush
-try paint bucket (15 min)
Lesson 2: Layers and the Timeline
Lesson 3: Symbols and Frame Picker
This is very labour intensive! You will want to use the Auto Lip Sync
Draw your mouth shapes following the exemplar here.
Download mouth shapes: https://devonkong.com/resources
Lesson 3: Auto Lip Syncing
Write a script and record yourself reading the script. Import your MP3 recording into Adobe Animate and use the auto Lip Sync function and create an animation of your character talking.
Complete editing of your animation. Export Finished Video. Submit to Brightspace Dropbox.
IMPORTANT! When you export, make sure your audio layer "sync" is set to STREAM