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Lip Sync

As one of the final tasks for our module we where told to create a lip synced and animated scene. We were told to create whatever we wanted, so i got to work finding songs that i wanted to sync max too and i choose Lady Gagas Born This Way. 

Because of the time constraint, i only took the first 24 seconds of the song to lip sync and animate to. I started by cutting the clip to the right length for the sound and then i put it into maya with max ready to start. I listened to the sound clip looking at which frames words where spoken in from the sound. 

From this i created a dope sheet, writing the pronounciations that maxs mouth would have to take at what word. This would save me time when it came to lip syncing.

    

Once i had finished the dope sheets, i started to do some little sketches, mapping out where i wanted max to move whilst he was performing. These where only quick drawings with arrows showing the next stage of the animation, but it was all done to save me time when i was creating the scene.