WK 5- lip syncing

This was a fun tutorial , experimenting with jason osipas mouth controls default grey, and creating my own mouth controls. With this i learnt how animators can use controls to control facial expressions , mouth movements , and other parts of the body, i learnt that blending shapes save a lot of time rather than creating lots of individual mouth shapes, and the basic movements being wide and narrow as one part, open closed.

facial movements by Jason Osipas book stop starring for lip syncing.

Here are screen shots of my own mouth controls created i the tutorial with the use of blend shapes:

unfortunantly i could not provide a clip of this as there were difficulties creating a clip and uploading to you tube.

Using these two techniques i am able to create full speech with  a character and sync it with audio.
In CGI films such as UP by disney pixar the use of blend shapes are used to provide consistent speech that flows beautifully were expressions are created off the back of the dialogue, the clip below was a good source in which i found how usefull this technique can be in a fully animated film.

In order to gain a more in depth knowledge, this tutorial covered all the basic principles that i had to think about. This was important to me as i felt that this is what i would need to learn and understand in order to bring more life into my characters  also drive the storytelling process forward. In previous tasks before the specialist unit i found i would tend to over animate my characters lip syncing . So this was extremely helpful and relevant to my area of interests. Below is my task fro lip syncing i used a downloaded rig off the internet called generi blue that came with controls, so from here i chose my own dialogue and then created my character singing to the lyrics.

With reference to professional work i felt for the level of knowledge i gained ,my work for this task was successful to the best of my ability ,  being both the mouth controls and my own task ,i am very pleased with the final outcome of both. I plan to look back at this task and tweak anything i feel can be improved further to my abilities. i want to address this as soon as i have free time to do so.
below is the professional reference i used to compare my lip syncing to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdlxwX6A7g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AAdkfiamU
 Both these clips are created by aardman animation 3d stop motion, i used these clips also as they show great facial expressions were talking or giving a shocked expression, they are extremely well made also beleivable as they were created based on real peoples movements and voices.