The EASIEST Way to Lip Sync - Tutorial

Lip-Synching Basics

Overview: This tutorial covers the basics of lip-synching, including how to break up mouth sounds into different mouth shapes, the six basic mouth shapes used for lip-synching, and how to use a program like Toon Boom to animate the lip-synching.

Breaking Up Mouth Sounds

• Break up mouth sounds into different mouth shapes.

• Use one or two mouth shapes for anime lip-synching.

Six Basic Mouth Shapes

• Six basic mouth shapes used for lip-synching: vowels (except U and O), hard constants, Oh and Ru sound, FV, L, B and P.

• Some animators use more than six mouth shapes.

Using Toon Boom

• Use Toon Boom to animate lip-synching.

• Draw all mouths first, then match them up later.

• Every frame is connected to a drawing in the library.

• Extend the first frame all the way.

• Substitute frames with the course of one week.

• Be snappy when animating the mouth opening.

• Ease out when animating the mouth closing.

• Close mouth often indicates the end of a word.

Lip Syncing Animation

Overview: This video provides an overview of how to animate lip syncing in animation.

Easing In and Out

• To animate lip syncing, start by easing in from the closed mouth to the open mouth.

• Then ease out back into the closed mouth and snap back in.

• Practice this method a lot to get the hang of it.

Animating the Audio Clip

• To animate the audio clip, draw six frames and duplicate them to create 12 mouth frames.

• Use tweening to create the illusion of movement.

Conclusion

• Remember to ease in, snap, ease out, ease in, snap, ease out when animating lip syncing.