Week 17: Lip Syncing – Blocking

Introduction

This week, I started working on my lip-syncing animation: customizing my character rig, setting up my Maya scene and creating the blocking animaiton.

For the audio I have chosen, I needed to use a male character in his midlife.

So, I decided to buy the customizable ‘Ricardo’ rig and edited his appearance into an office man, with white hair, beard and glasses.

First, I imported my reference video into the Maya scene and then I placed the audio in the time slider.

Then, in order to start with the blocking process, I created the key poses of the character.

I created the blocking animation for the character’s body and facial expressions (eyes and eyebrows).

However, I will start animating the mouth once I work in splines.

I definitely need to create keys for each part of the body as the character moves as a whole.