Talking Head Exercise


I had a lot of fun creating this character. Since I picked the voice over before creating the character, I tried to imagine someone who comes off as having an attitude. I gave her a gothic sort of look as I thought it would add to her bossy tone. This was my first time working with lip syncing and I thought it was interesting trying to figure out the way the mouth shapes for each vow. The hardest word to lip sync was the word 'probably'. Not only is 'probably' a word you say very fast, but it also requires more than one mouth shape.

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