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Stylized mouth shapes

Stylized mouth shapes

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Stylized mouth shapes

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- [Instructor] Occasionally it'll be necessary to make a geometrical object speak maybe for a talking logo or some really strong and stylized project. The most famous example of this would be the doorknobs in Alice in Wonderland where the keyhole function as the mouth, so I wanted to demonstrate three extremely simple shapes to show how we might approach the challenge of making a triangle talk or a square talk or something very simple. So in this graphic you'll see the triangular, the square, the circular, I left a peanut mouth out because basically it's just a variation on the circular mouth, but that gives you the idea you can make variations on these, you're not limited to these basic ones. There's all kinds of things you could do, but these will be the general principles of how you approach it. So in this case I took a basic form, the triangle, and I used the traditional A through F mouth shapes to focus on the closed mouth, the E shaped mouth, the wide open mouth or the D mouth…

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