This was a project for my animation class. The objective of this project was to express emotion and the proper phonemes to make it look like the character is the one speaking inline with the audio. I created this animation was created in Autodesk Maya 2015 using the ElevenRig from the 11 Second Club. The lip sync audio clip is from Disney’s Lilo and Stitch. In order to create this animation, I needed a reference that would be filmed from a similar if not the exact same angle as I was using in my animation. This meant I had to create a reference video of myself acting out the scene as best I could with the exaggerated body movements that make animation come alive.
The video to the right is my reference video.
If I was to do this again, I would make the following changes:
