Final Lip Sync Animation

I enjoyed animating the lip sync project. For this one, I animated a music-video-style lip sync of Phil Collins' Don't Lose My Number. I used a combination of puppets and frame by frame animation. Miming the lip movements was a lot less complicated than I thought it would be. I took reference footage of myself to animate the lip sync, which helped considerably and also assisted in my understanding of the various mouth shapes that certain letters and sounds make. I also gained more experience using pegs and timing the keyframes. All of the animation was completed in Toon Boom Harmony, which I then exported and transferred into Premiere to compile and edit the clips. I also spent a day and a half coloring the backgrounds and scenes, but of course, ended up slapping a cool black and white filter that Premiere had on top of it in the end anyway.

Puppet Animation

For the puppet animation, I decided to do something that I could use for the final lip sync project. This time, I chose to animate Phil Collins drumming. Assembling the puppet was rather simple but still took longer than I had predicted it would. However, the peg system made animating the movements a lot easier than frame by frame, as I was able to easily edit the timing and snappiness of the movements.