Skillshare – Simple Character Lip Sync

What You’ll Learn

• Design a Character in Illustrator. We’ll begin by designing your character’s head in Illustrator.
• Create Lip Sync Mouth Positions. You’ll create the 14 key shapes your character will need to speak.
• Rigging in After Effects. I will give you a quick and simple way to set up the rigging for your character’s mouth ready for animation.
• Lip Sync to Dialogue. You’ll learn how to quickly get your character speaking using a short clip of audio dialogue.

What You’ll Do

You will design and animate a talking character! This course is a brief primer in a core aspect of character animation – lip sync. Using the strengths of After Effects to create fun movement for character animation, we will give you the tools to create great talking characters!

• Deliverable. You’ll create a simple talking character animation using Adobe Illustrator and After Effects.
• Details. You’ll start with creating a simple character in Adobe Illustrator along with 14 mouth-design assets.
• You’ll take your character into After Effects and assign motions to an audio track. I’ll show you a simple way to effectively sync mouth movements to dialogue.
• Collaboration. As you go through the class, update your project to share your progress with your fellow students. Give each other critical feedback.
• Specs. By the end of the class, you will have successfully created an animation of a talking character.