Session with George
This week’s task is to add lip animation and face animation to the characters
The animations mainly focus on the face, and the lip animations refer to my own movements when speaking lines, as well as theories based on the pronunciation of the mouth. The length of the whole animation is 7 seconds, a total of 5 lines. I will detail the process of lip-syncing the first two lines.
First is the first sentence, Love you：
The line in this place is “love you”, and the first thing is to pronounce like a, ai, so I made a round, full-grown lip-sync.
Here is the pronunciation of the u in You, with the whole lip outward and slightly protruding
This is followed by a second line： But stop pushing your life style on my face/
Here is the mouth shape of But, first the B is pronounced and the lips close inward first, showing a straight line.
Adding down is the u in But, pronounced a, so the lips are more rounded.
Then comes the mouth shape of STOP pronunciation, where the mouth shape first changes to a flattened line, then opens the mouth and the mouth shape becomes more rounded and pronounces the O sound.
The p of Pushing, the mouth shape should be made closed first and slightly puckered.
Next is the pronunciation of the O in Your, with a rounded mouth shape.
Finally, the L and F of Life are pronounced with the mouth shape showing stretching into a line, then the top teeth pressing against the bottom lip and the bottom lip contracting inward. This is the pronunciation of “f”.
Artwork
This week’s content is rendering and editing. Most of my rendering is done in UE5, with two separate shots rendered in Maya.
Before rendering, preset the camera motion and set the output format of the rendering to PNG format.
I will upload the rendered file to Onedrive and save it
Next is organizing the files and then editing
There are approximately 21 files in total, which are then edited in order and accompanied by special effects. The website for special effects materials comes from：https://vfx.productioncrate.com