Study task 4

What a Dope!

Part 1

This study task was all about dope sheets, their value, and how they benefit our working practice.

I havn't used dope sheets before this module due to the fact i have never had to animate a face to lip sync with actual words, i have only used innate babble in my previous work, so it was very usefull to learn this skill.

The dope sheet makes lip syncing one hundred times easier as you allocate a phoneme to a certain element of your soundtrack and the specific frame numbers, you do this for every audible syllable to form the dope sheet, which (when coming to animating) gives you a professional and accurate instruction sheet on how to animate the lip sync.

We had to select an audio clip from a collection that we were presented with, then we had to create a dope sheet from said clip.

I chose the star wars clip which included this line of speech

"I dont know who you are, or where you came from... but from now on you do as i tell you ... okay!"

Here is my initial dope sheet

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As you can see it is quite a long dope sheet for one sentence, and after trying to animate it i soon learnt that it was too detailed, i tried to squeeze in every motion that the mouth makes, but by doing that my phonemes only lasted one frame (two at a push) so it looked ridiculous when it came to rendering it out.

I need to create a new one...

A simplified version.