Lip Sync

After having a workshop in Flash today and doing some simple exercises with lip sync, I am now going to do some more research into incorporating lip sync into animations.

The website below is very useful as it narrows down all the different mouth shapes into just 7 key ones...

http://www.cartoonsolutions.com/store/catalog/Lip-Sync-Mouth-Animation-sp-79.html

This other website goes into a bit more detail about how to lip sync, with certain techniques as well as why these are used...

http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/aim/a_notes/anim_lipsync.html

English is not a phonetic language and part of the art of good lip-sync is the ability to interpret the sounds (phonetics) you are hearing rather than attempting to animate each letter of a word.