Here I recorded the animations and the lip sync for the character that will be in my second animation. In order to achieve this I completed the same process the I did in the Development of Animation One | Syncing Audio with Character before recording the animations of the character breaving and moving slightly in order to give her more life.
Once I was happy with how the recording looked I then exported the scene out of Character Animator before importing it into my After Effects file and I began the process of replacing my place holder character with my now animated and lip synced one.
Animation Development | Part Eighty-five
https://youtu.be/EphVvLG-ZJ8
Animation Development 2 – Test 5
Below is the first draft of my second animation with the lip synced character and the narration imported into the After Effects. As is visible from the video below, there are a lot of issues that need fixing in this animation. To begin with the narration seems to start in the middle of a sentence rather than at the beginning. There are also a few instances where the animation is out of sync with the narration and some of the place holder characters have not been deleted from the scene. The animation also doesn’t finish where it is supposed to and instead ends on the character which is not what it is meant to do. Because of this I am going to have to go back into the After Effects file and make some adjustments in order to fix these issues.
https://youtu.be/7SQQNO02d1k
Animation Development 2 – Test 6
Below is the final outcome for my second animation from After Effects. I managed to solve the issues that I was having in the previous tests so that the narration begins at the beginning and not in the middle of a sentence, as well as deleting all the place holder character and making sure that the narrations lines up with the correct animated scenes
https://youtu.be/I02pNuRaOww
Overall I am very happy with how this second animations has turned out especially after all the mini issues I faced while trying to get my animated and lip synced character into the animation. Now that I have finished the animating of both my animations, my next step will be to add the final touches such as background music before exporting the videos out and uploading them to the YouTube channel that I created specifically for these animations.
Bibliography
Katherine Leveridge (2021) Animation Development 2 – Test 6. Available from: https://youtu.be/I02pNuRaOww [Accessed 18 May 2021]
Katherine Leveridge (2021) Animation Development 2 – Test 5. Available from: https://youtu.be/7SQQNO02d1k [Accessed 18 May 2021]
Katherine Leveridge (2021) Animation Development | Part Eighty-five. Available from: https://youtu.be/EphVvLG-ZJ8 [Accessed 18 May 2021]