Aaron's Art Tips Season2 E14 - How to Animate Dialogue, Lip Sync

[@hugofreire7811]

My animation teacher used to tell me to animate the mouth shapes two frames before the actual sound. That is one drawing before if you're animating on 2's. I always found it to be quite useful and effective.

[@josey_8204]

Brilliant

[@melbelle_kp]

That animation was smoother than butter oAo

[@rockancestor]

This scene is actually really funny on its own.

[@Deacon8or]

I don't have any shoes. It's just my feet.

[@lylasaur6694]

HMMM

[@Ad_der]

*this comment causes stress*

[@shonedeemu817]

This took u a day and a half? o-o UR A FAST ANIMATOR AND GREAT ONE

[@crownclowncreations]

Well, he did work 20-something years at Disney, so it only makes sense.

[@saitama_stillchill6787]

Anyone can become as good as this old man the only thing u need it patience

[@eshan309]

This was incredible! Such a simple dialogue....simple character....nothing but the character comes, shows he doesnt have shoes, and leaves. But animating in a such way all those simple things makes it so funny and entertaining! This is what i dont have and want to achieve...the liveliness which you present in anything in animation...im not able to put it into words right now.

[@OhmagabTV]

Amazing! I´m glad there are great artist like you teaching and giving some tips, thank you SO much for this video, I subbed :D

[@bluecollarstudio8513]

You're animation is so inspiring! I spent years as a background and storyboard artist at FR and NAS, before getting burned out and moved to Vegas, now a show drummer. I just got a wacom and can't wait to order your tutorials. It's like when I was a kid and used to copy KISS records and Don Martin all over again.

[@nullreferenceexception9327]

Blue Collar Studio I thought you said NASA

[@Linkyboy]

You describe many points of lip-syncing I had never considered, thank you for taking the time to make this video!

[@SkyjuiceMMA]

Not watched the full video ye but good to see you mamaged to grow the page like you wanted to🎉

[@bdustin8023]

Amazing Animation and you sir are the best teacher!!!

[@alisats5693]

Oh my god, thank you, Aaron! I've been struggling with lip sync immensely, and your tips have helped me so much🙏

[@monkeyzeetube]

Thanks for the inspiration Aaron and keeping traditional animation alive and still kicking ass....We probably worked on the same projects back in the Disney days..cheers ..Rizaldy myfavedisneyRV

[@vampbat]

I'm so happy to see you have an episode on lip sync! Your videos are always clear and really educational, and I've been struggling a lot with frame rate and tweening.

[@patrickdeza]

How did the traditional animators do the lip syncing? I find it hard to imagine, since there is no fast way to doublecheck, if your frames match the sound. Did they note every word on an X-sheet first? Awesome video by the way :-) Best wishes from Germany Patrick

[@eonstar]

+Patrick Deza Maybe the voice actors would act to the sounds that they saw and try to sinc it up. But I notice a lot of older cartoons have just music which could explain this case :P.

[@koalabrownie]

Yes they would note each shape on a dopesheet and typically put the shape 2 frames before the sounds. This is for the west. In Japan, the would normally just animate it and then have the voice over done later, that's why the japanese have a lot less mouth shapes. One of the few exceptions is Akira which recorded dial first.

[@eonstar]

koalabrownie I think some westerners did it the way they did it in Japan. (I saw a movie and the person was voice acting to the animation.

[@koalabrownie]

eon star Yeah it's possible. I think it's usually cheaper to do it that way

[@SnuggleDoodle]

Aaron, your channel is really growing! Please keep it up, I really love your videos, I always always learn something from them. :)

[@nickmation85]

Wow, thanks for that tip, Aaron! I'm a 3D animator and I'm currently taking courses through animation mentor to strengthen my character animation. The next project I have to work on is a dialogue shot and this will really help!

[@simonhaywood5238]

Aaron lovin your series you have some great info. I havnt animated anything but, I tend to agree with think the animations come before the sound, as light is before sound in life, just like lightning strikes, you see the lightning then you hear the sound of it. Keep up the great work and keep me being inspired. Thanx bud

[@GurmeetSingh-gh5ll]

Thats so smooth 😍😍😍

[@gamedevai]

Thank you that great advice, I'm very near to animating the mouth movements and will be taking on board on your teachings cheers

[@ArkinAnimation]

Great Job Sir Aaron, You're a legend, Thanks for the tips. I hope I can work for walt disney too

[@godknowsnehaG]

I am working on my 3d animation showreel and your tutorials helping a lot. Thank you so much🌼.

[@Glasseyyy]

Incredibly interesting and was something I was wondering about for a very long time. I just wasnt able to put into words. I often have transitions and now recently lyrics, and definitely noticed that placing them before the sound looked better but it still looked wrong because i didnt leave enough room for more frames. Thanks!

[@stuvs830]

This video goes straight to the Essential Production file in my YT. Thank you for this tip! Glad I subscribe.

[@kassachap]

This animation made me chuckle I'm a simple man! But great tips thanks.

[@TheMetalVagabond]

Aaron's pearls of wisdom

[@ShoppingForBlood]

Oh my gosh I am so glad you made this video. I am terrible at lip sync. Thank you so much for making these videos Aaron, your are a big inspiration.

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Extremely helpful advice.

[@davidrosinski424]

Very simply put but very very helpful. Thanks!

[@siaka-stevensokyere7245]

thanks AARON u are my savior

[@gloryvision7395]

Just Amazing......where've u been all my art life Aaron ....wow

[@ashwinsudhakaran2260]

Sir, Your tutorials are very helpful..just great, being a flash animator I really find it hard to achieve the kind of flow you have maintained through out the animation even after applying tweens. So I would really like to have a breakdown of your animation process in the future.

[@LorenzoVDH1996]

You just saved me. I have a deadline and I couldn't figure out the dialogue... Thanks!

[@Jaszleemin]

same

[@distantmaniacallaughter8690]

You remind me a bit of my uppa…it’s very comforting

[@AmityAnimation]

This is priceless. Thank you for sharing!

[@AyoAriyo7]

Lovely Jubbly! ❤

[@ageshero]

That animation is beautiful man!

[@mangoship]

I need to do some lip sync animation for my next project and this is just perfect.

[@jaysharma5366]

awesome animation and lip syncing.. it's just perfect..

[@mustigorel02]

Wow thank you for this tips ! it's really helpfull!

[@fresbergcartoon]

Really enjoyed your video. I subscribed and look forward to your videos :)

[@ajzizoo100]

Thank you so much for video. they re really amazing, I just bought your animation tutorial package from your website and it really helps, I hope you do more of these with some TVPaint tips.

[@nocturno4191]

wooooo, es lo mejor que eh visto hace mucho tiempo

[@haroldradido]

Powerful lesson. PS: Hope he finally got the shoes.

[@Paul_Barragan]

Amazing!

[@moonlightwolf3664]

I love this video! It has helped me heaps! Thank so so much Aron

[@cannonhomevideos9102]

This will help me out a lot with my new stop motion animation series "Operation Hollow Earth" since my characters will have lip sync animation. Thanks.

[@steiktur2000]

This is the best lip sync tutorial ever! I learned so much, Also, holy crap you're a good animator! :)

[@animovich]

Great Tips ! Thanks .

[@Emilpops]

Awesome! I haven't hand drawn animation since art school. This makes me want to give it another shot! I would actually love a breakdown of the walk sequence in this animation. Mine always seem to mechanical instead of a nice flow. I always thought it was because of follow through but know it seems more about timing.........

[@deethanyter7324]

now heres a question. how do you lip sync when you are not usuing an animation program? i have fire alpaca and final cut.

[@mickeymuse2]

Light travels faster than sound, so our brains process the visuals faster than the audio. That's why animating 2x early is so important - otherwise it looks late. Camp 2x before the audio 4 LYFE!

[@SodaPopBot]

Don't think I knew this trick before, good to know 8)

[@davidheard709]

Great stuff….. I like it. Excellent!,!!!

I hope some day make animation like this.

[@Arkengirl]

Thank you mr. Blaise Giving me a Bday Tutorial on animating a Dioglouge

[@harshavardhanmukala9564]

Loved it 😁

[@BruceWayne-qj4xk]

This is amazing!!!!!

[@gmwor9695]

I am naturally good at lips sync. I didn't even know what I was doing.......... Now I know!!!!!! Other animator was like, his work is amazing!!!!

[@drawer9987]

Aaron, did you animate this dialogue as pose-to-pose or as straight ahead?

[@jakearsenal4400]

This helps alot!

[@shanianordstrom7326]

this was really useful!

[@EvieRombal74]

Thanks for the tips! I'll be lip syncing today!

[@4rjohny5]

great tips Aaron! thank you! = )

[@jonnysophisticado]

funny because i dont have any feet, its just my shoes!

[@kaylenosferatul7765]

Am I the only one who can't stop staring at that foot in the last part of the animation??

[@ashwingopan1932]

thank you so much !!

[@ageshero]

I cant get enough of that intro song...

[@TheDMCcartoon]

thank you so much.

[@ZedAmadeus]

so good

[@johnfweeks]

thank you a lot!

[@vedatastic9793]

When Aaron flips the animation, the thing sound like “scrabble apple”

[@funimagemaldives]

Great tutorial video. liked and subd :)

[@TheAsianDerp]

i hear so many people say WACOM like Wah-com and then here i am, sayin "way-com" x'D great video though ! :) Very helpful

[@mamafuzzball]

Hey you! I say way-com too lmao

[@TheAsianDerp]

Chunji Huli yay ! :D

[@gone-yes]

i say both at times lol

[@itsyaboinadia]

Vincent i say whack-um

[@muuluzi]

Vincent same

[@locusruizlopez5997]

cool

[@muuluzi]

thanks for the awesome video Aaron! Even if it is pretty old. I decided a couple of days ago that I would like to start animating. I don't have an animation program so I would enjoy it you made a video on animating in video editors or if you already have one made than can you link me? P.S. how do you know if you have enough frames for the animation when animating in video editors?

[@StevePresser]

Another awesome tutorial! I've watched every video on your channel and really love them. Question: what software do you use to record both yourself and the screen?

[@nburch]

It's called "Screenflow" - www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm

[@StevePresser]

Nick Burch Thanks for the quick response Nick!

[@lunabeige]

How to do lip sync on paper, without audio clips? What about syncing of vocals and consonants for traditional animation on paper?? I have never been able to understand how to do this... You worked for disney and you are an expert, can you explain how to do it??

[@acearonii]

Aaron, may I ask where you went to school? Curious :D

[@johnosborne4460]

you should do some comic drawing

[@bigfootlil]

What brush do you use in TVPaint? It looks so nice.

[@wholebitmedia]

Hey Aaron nice animation. Are you still using the Disney principles or is this a straight ahead approach? I've been using a more structured approach based on forces that for me seems to supercede a lot of things that were not culturally instinctual when the principles were agreed upon by 9 old men. Do you think the system is outdated?

[@frankrino]

That's great... i'm steel exercising in using TvPaint... kind of difficult :S

[@dillonwright13]

Would it be okay to delay the audio by just one frame when lip syncing a line?

[@mayatayar8147]

thank you so much for sharing your experience i just wana know what software you used?

[@mayatayar8147]

Much appreciated

[@Oliver-gammarART]

Great Tut - thanks :) Which cintiq dou you prefer? The 22HD or the 24HD? Any reasons why?

[@Oliver-gammarART]

Thanks :) Ich have concerns about the color fastness of the screens. wacom specify 72% AdobeRGB for the 22HD and 92% for the 24HD. Unfortunetly, I had no way of testing the cintiqs yet.

[@chloeravina9817]

My friends and I are working on an animation, we're a bunch of newbies so we wanted to know: Do you do the voice overs before getting started on key frames or is it backwards? And musical scoring comes after everything right?

[@TheMikirog]

Some animators do music before the actual animation. If it has a lot of key moments, it is easier to make animations way more dynamic, matching the music. With Voice Over, I often animate without any mouth movements and I try to predict how long certain lines would take. After that, it's easy to prolong some frames. Of course, I do it in Moho, which is vector based, so there's a bit more leeway on that. If the line is a bit more involved, I start from scratch or with slight variation, like arm acting.

[@mentallyderangeddoggirl]

I'm trying this out, but I can't animate right. It's because during movement, I can't see what I'm working off of. Is there a way to see the frames before so I know what I'm doing. I hope I made myself clear.

[@mentallyderangeddoggirl]

***** Yeah, I figured it out, by watching another video of Aaron's. But I didn't buy TV paint so it doesn't matter anyways.

[@mentallyderangeddoggirl]

***** I use sketchbook flipbook to animate now, but thank you for the help.

[@Nika-ed5oo]

I'm sure Cintiq is amazing but it's also expensive as hell. Especially for people who don't get paid in dollars. :((

[@RayPointerChannel]

The Cintiq has its advantages and disadvantages. Aside from the cost, you simply do not have the same amount of control on your lines as you do on paper. The thickness of the glass is part of the trouble. This becomes a problem when you are doing tightly spaced animation drawings. The spacing can be misinterpreted due to this.

[@ArtfulCosumDust]

@Aye Yuh Aye Yuh Because anyone that has a job can magically afford a Cintiq lmao

[@aideqeart]

Здравствуйте сделайте пожалуйста обучение в Adobe animate

[@Nintendude.]

Please, give the poor thing some shoes.

[@Cralax1Robot]

El video empieza en el 2:45

[@mustafacoksen2983]

program name?

[@kubrakartal1288]

Ücretsiz mi ? Program

[@age3rcm]

>made this in just one day and a half of one even if it means 36 hours of work, i feel soo useless right now...

[@Droilius]

poor pacman doeasnt have shoes

[@gvo84]

subscribed :D

[@stiinkysocks6354]

张她还能！给她跟我说服役小弟

[@jimmysrevenge1]

I wonder how all these tips translate to 3D animation. maybe you can't eat that many lip shapes.

[@jimmysrevenge1]

***** huh. ok. i thought because in 3D, you animate with 24 frames normally, skipping too many shapes might cause it to be too snappy or you might end up with too many inbetweens. i'm still a student and we started lipsync classes this week, in 3D. Your video certainly makes me think. :) thanks for the reply, btw.

[@abtyang]

thanks so much for the insight! There isn't nearly enough of this kind of info out there for traditional animation.