Quick Mouth Rigging Tip!

It's not always easy to create a mouth rig that realistically matches what the character is actually saying. In fact, it can be a real pain.

Something we do here to make life a little easier, is to record our own mouth’s reading the script at the same cadence and expressiveness that we’re wanting our characters to speak at (and of course, it must match the pace that the voice artist has recorded it in).

Importing this footage into the project as reference, we can then animate the mouth alongside it and match them up with each other.

Similarly, we will act out parts of a scene in the studio from time to time, creating character movement references to help with that too – but that would be far too embarrassing to upload here!

The footage here was used on one of our case study pieces here.

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