Study Task 4 and 5. What a Dope and Making faces.

Study Task 4: What a Dope required us to make a dope sheet, writing down the face shapes for each sound in each word from a short clip we could choose.

I chose the Airplane clip because I thought it sounded more fun and there was more chance for overexaggerating the lip movements.

I realised about half way down that I had potentially been breaking down each work too much, but I carried on to finish the sheet. I matched each sound with an action of a phoneme from the link on estudio that showed the mouth shape each sound would make. 

Study Task 5 then asked us to take the sounds and actions from the Dope sheet and create the movements on our moom characters to create lip syncing. 

I think, for a first try, my lip syncing worked quite well, however I couldn't quite get his mouth to close properly between words and some words don't look quite right without teeth or a tongue, and I made the choice to hide the teeth because I couldn't quite see the shape of the mouth with the large teeth getting in the way. When I do the lip syncing for the final animation I will be able to spend more time on it so hopefully will be able to make the mouth movements more believable.