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Automate lip sync - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects: Character Animation Techniques
Automate lip sync
- [Instructor] So, I'm going to show you an old favorite of mine. This is a little trick that you can do to create lip-syncing for your characters. Here I've got little animation of a dog. Just on in Poser Where he opens and closes his mouth a few times. If you don't want to lip-sync a whole animation, you can just create some mouth movements like this. And by moving time backwards and forwards, you can kind of make it look as if he's talking. I've got some music in here made by a friend of mine, Jason Levine. The wonderful Jason Levine and I've extracted his voice from the audio, so that I've only got his voice on this track. So I'm just going to play that for you. ♪ I don't need ♪ ♪ To know your business ♪ ♪ I'm not interested in you ♪ - [Instructor] So, that's the full version. Here's the one with the extracted vocals. ♪ In you bringing me down ♪ ♪ Do I ♪ - [Instructor] So, I did that with Adobe Audition just to get his voice isolated. And then I select this, and I'm going to go to…
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