Lip syncs definitely sounded intimidating to me before the session on it, but now having tried it, I’ve discovered its really fun and pretty easy with the resources we were given.
However the given audios were pretty uninspiring. I opted for the “stupid french oaf” one because it seemed the most interesting. I do need to edit this one a little more though as the pigtails seem to have a life of their own at points!
When I got feedback for (an earlier version of) this, I was told to exaggerate the “f” sounds more which definitely made a difference.
However for the chosen lip sync, I used a Korean audio clip, and in Korean they don’t actually have an ‘f’ sound in their alphabet…
I opted for this clip because I never had time to try an earlier optional exercise that was set – two people interacting on a bench – and I wanted to practice animating people reacting off of each other. The character on the left actually laughs for a good 5 seconds more in the following section of audio, but I cut it because it was a bit of a nightmare to try and animate for now. I’ll definitely try working on it more in the easter holidays though for some practice!