Phonemes (& Mouth Shapes)
To start working on the process of animating the actual speaking part of the animation, I decided on the sentence I was going to say. I decided to just read a line from the book I was working from ("A Mouse Called Julian – Joe Todd-Stanton). I chose "The fox bared his teeth". Once I had my sentence, I took a video of myself saying the sentence and analysed the video to copy the mouth shapes. I then drew out the mouth shapes that I would need.
Once I was happy with the shapes of the mouths, I decided to take a stop-motion video (using Stop Motion Studio) with them to make sure they actually looked like they were saying the sentence. I was very pleased with the result, especially because this is my first time ever trying something like this.