Here I began the final assemble of my animations by importing the animated and lip synced character into the animation within After Effects.
Screen Shot of Final Assembly
Animation Development |Syncing Audio with Character | 2
Here is a time-laps recording where I recreated the lip-sync for my animation as well as re-recording the animations such as the eyebrows moving, the character breathing and other minute movements that help make my character seem more real.
https://youtu.be/HqImnUOPg_8
Animation Development | Part Eighty-three
Below is another draft of my first animation the now includes my narration and animated character. This test draft is already a lot better the my last one as the character is not in sync with the narration.
https://youtu.be/gyX7cSrNhaw
Animation Development | Part Eighty-four
Here I have continued to develop my first animations by importing my animated and lip synced character into the rest of the animation. After the test above came out successful I had more confidence in adding the rest of the scene that had my animated character into the animation. The time-laps video below shows the process of adding the character and then animating her transitions from scene to scene.
https://youtu.be/-whXJKiyV6A
Animation Development – Test 6
While this test started out pretty well, parts of the narration suddenly become louder and there are sections where the narration is still going but the character is not longer lip syncing. The narrations also cuts off at the end before it has finished. All of these are pretty major issues that I had to go back and change
https://youtu.be/SlvC80mUs84
Animation Development – Test 7
Below is the final outcome of my first animations from After Effects. I managed to solve the issues that I was having in the previous tests so that my character is lip synced to the narration completely and the audio doesn’t have sudden changes audio level.
https://youtu.be/F9L1W5kCkYs
Overall I am very happy with how this first 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 my first animation, my next step will be to record the animation of my character for the second animation and then import the scene into my After Effects file.
Bibliography
Katherine Leveridge (2021) Animation Development – Test 7. Available from: https://youtu.be/F9L1W5kCkYs [Accessed 17 May 2021]
Katherine Leveridge (2021) Animation Development – Test 6. Available from: https://youtu.be/SlvC80mUs84 [Accessed 17 May 2021]
Katherine Leveridge (2021) Animation Development | Part Eighty-four. Available from :https://youtu.be/-whXJKiyV6A [Accessed 17 May 2021]
Katherine Leveridge (2021) Animation Development |Syncing Audio with Character | 2. Available from :https://youtu.be/HqImnUOPg_8 [Accessed 17 May 2021]
Katherine Leveridge (2021) Animation Development | Part Eighty-three. Available from: https://youtu.be/gyX7cSrNhaw [Accessed 17 May 2021]