Advanced 2D Cartoon Lip Sync Animation – AE Premium
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Advanced 2D Cartoon Lip Sync Animation – AE Premium

on Jul 13th 2010 with 5 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: After Effects, Photoshop, and 3ds Max (for the 3d character)
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Run Time: 1 hour 2 min
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In this tutorial we will be stepping through the process of animating an audio voice-over using mask-driven lip sync animation in After Effects. We will setup the project using phoneme mouth shape reference and various teeth and tongue layers. We will then animate the voice-over using a fluid, organic animation technique. Finally, we’ll look at how to take a master render of the animation into 3D and map it onto a 3D character, using various material techniques…

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Dave Scotland has over 12 years of CG production knowledge and experience, working for some of the biggest clients in the entertainment industry including, Disney, Warner Bros. and Plastic Wax, just to name a few. He is the creator of CG Swot and is dedicated to bringing CG knowledge to anyone interested in learning... Dave started out, in production, as a 3D Animator and Technical Director before moving into the world of Compositing, Digital Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. Throughout his career, Dave has been drawn to the process of sharing his knowledge with others and has a definite gift for teaching quite technical procedures and techniques to both experienced and novice operators.  

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  • Kurtis Thomas

    Looks Great!

  • slize

    Looking really good :)

  • http://www.youtube.com/goranification goran

    looks great. :)

  • http://www.explorethebruce.com Gem

    Awesome. This is going to help me bigtime. When I worked for Cuppa Coffee Animation, we had mouth kits. This is going to make my job so much easier.

  • http://www.explorethebruce.com Gem

    Is there a Mouth Kit PSD download or after effects file for this so we can try it?