This is a nice chart!
Lipsync is one of my not-so-secret passions. I also hate front mouths. Theyāre harder to inbetween, I find, and theyāre not used nearly as frequently. Hereās some Ā¾ mouths I made.
These are the basic shapes I was taught, and I use. Standard lipsync shapes;;Ā
You have your closed mouth to open, to clenched teeth, to oohs, and your (often optional) F, L, and TH mouths.
Your top teeth donāt move; Ā I mean, stylistically it happens sometimes (Gravity falls does it fairly well, as much as I haaaaate that), but your lipsync will prolly look better if they donāt.
My clenched teeth (SH) mouth is always a bit wider than my biggest AH mouth. It adds variation and helps your shapes blend more nicely. Conversely, my biggest AH mouth is narrower than my SH mouth and my closed (M) mouth.
My L mouth is a tiny bit more closed than my biggest AH, and not as closed as my second biggest AH. It fits between them nicely so that if you have to go from an L to an AH mouth, like you would for the word āLikeā or āLoveā, it doesnāt pop or look weird.
My R and oo mouths move forward on the face a bit, it adds dimension, and if you leave it all in the same place and have the mouth just shrink into a circle it miiiight look weird.
Aaaaand I think thatās it? Ā Never go from a SH mouth to a TH mouth, itāll pop and look weirdā¦uhhh; Ā
Also! Itās alright to skip some shapes;;
So below is a lipsync I made using the above shapes;
Itās clear what theyāre saying, the mouth is moving nicely, but thereās only one problem. Veeeery rarely do they give you enough time to use all the mouths you want to make it move nice. Voice actors talk fast to fit everything in and holycrap do we hate Ā love them for it.
Those two gifs should start at the same time, and notice that the second one stops while the first one is still saying ādoingā.
I not only cut out the mouth between the biggest AH and the clenched teeth, but I combined the word āAre youā into, like, 3 shapes. I also trimmed some inbetweens overall. The lipsync still reads, though! You can still tell what theyāre saying even without audio (which would help it a bit, haha~)
Cutting out that stuff ended the lipsync a whole 14 frames sooner (more than half a second!). It doesnāt sound like much, but with 24 frames per second and dialogue moving at the speed of light, you donāt have time to dilly dally. This isnāt a preschool show;;
Aaaaaand I think thatās it. Liiiipsyyyyyync~~~
Now to go back to actual work and stop talking about things most ppl donāt care about;
