Pucker Up With A “Rocky Horror” Lips Rig
Tutorial Details
- Requirements: Just After Effects and the Puppet Tool
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Run Time: 7:25min
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Inspired by the opening sequence of one of my favorite cult movies of all times – “The Rocky Horror Picture Show“, I decided to share with you a great technique of recreating that effect. The original footage was a real person singing, so here I will give you a quick walkthrough to help you easily rig lips for a very precise lips sinking.
Tutorial
Download Tutorial .mp4
File size 21.9MB
Resources
Download the Lips Picture here.
Download the Font here.
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By Ran Ben Avraham
Ran Ben Avraham is post production artist working mainly in the fields of motion design and visual effects.
He is a freelancer from Israel, and also runs tophateffects.com/, an AE templates website, designated for the visual effects industry.
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beste muiiitoo show parabéns nós brasileiros agradecemos!!
Say… you wouldn’t mind translating that to English, now would you?
Don`t worry, he’s not cursing you ”beste” means nothing, but in the rest he meant = really good, we brazillians thank you.
um… I don’t mean to be negative… but you say VERY PRECISE lip syncing, yet the example you’ve shown isn’t even close to mouthing or even shaping the words??? You’ve set yourself up for some criticism here. yes you have the mouth moving, but the shapes barely coordinate except for a few times
@Ran
Allan said:
“Nice, great stuff, congratulations. We Brazilians appreciate.”
Yes, i’m Brazilian too.
IanJ is right because everybody that watches these seem to be After Effects critic experts. But I say good job!
nice stuff thanks for share
Where is the audio source??
You might want to rethink the “very Precise” mention in your description.
Your lips are obviously gummy and poorly animated.
And I do think you have some good tips and pointers for basic animation, but your description says “very precise”.
Why not run people through how to roto out real lips, or makeup techniques to make the process easier.
I recently finished a project where we needed to put lips on a dog.
We put bright red lipstick on the actor than a bright green on the surrounding mouth area.
I did a simple keyed roto and chroma key and BAMM nothing but lips.
TIP: you’ll need to put your actors head in some sort of vise to keep them from moving their head to much.