Pearl rocking a tiny bundle in her arms. Her face looked drained, “Thank goodness.” She breathed a sigh of relief to see her friends, “It seems as though we might have a problem.”
“On it!” Ruby went to the warp pad, ready for another mission. The red gem was thankful for the distraction.
Sapphire looked to Pearl, “I don’t think that’s what she means.”
The tall gem was cooing at Rose’s son, giving her all into making the bundle of joy once again joyful.
Sapphire walked up to Pearl, “May I?” She asked.
Pearl handed over the heavy responsibility, feeling a sense of relief almost instantly.
The blue gem hummed a sweet tune as she brought the child close to her.
This is a nice chart! Lipsync is one of my not-so-secret passions. I also hate front mouths. They’re harder to inbetween, I find, and they’re not used nearly as frequently. Here’s some ¾ mouths I made.
These are the basic shapes I was taught, and I use. Standard lipsync shapes;;
You have your closed mouth to open, to clenched teeth, to oohs, and your (often optional) F, L, and TH mouths.
Tips!
Your top teeth don’t move; I mean, stylistically it happens sometimes (Gravity falls does it fairly well, as much as I haaaaate that), but your lipsync will prolly look better if they don’t.
My clenched teeth (SH) mouth is always a bit wider than my biggest AH mouth. It adds variation and helps your shapes blend more nicely. Conversely, my biggest AH mouth is narrower than my SH mouth and my closed (M) mouth.
My L mouth is a tiny bit more closed than my biggest AH, and not as closed as my second biggest AH. It fits between them nicely so that if you have to go from an L to an AH mouth, like you would for the word “Like” or “Love”, it doesn’t pop or look weird.
My R and oo mouths move forward on the face a bit, it adds dimension, and if you leave it all in the same place and have the mouth just shrink into a circle it miiiight look weird.
Aaaaand I think that’s it? Never go from a SH mouth to a TH mouth, it’ll pop and look weird…uhhh;
Also! It’s alright to skip some shapes;;
So below is a lipsync I made using the above shapes;
It’s clear what they’re saying, the mouth is moving nicely, but there’s only one problem. Veeeery rarely do they give you enough time to use all the mouths you want to make it move nice. Voice actors talk fast to fit everything in and holycrap do we hate love them for it.
So here’s a fast one.
Those two gifs should start at the same time, and notice that the second one stops while the first one is still saying “doing”.
I not only cut out the mouth between the biggest AH and the clenched teeth, but I combined the word “Are you” into, like, 3 shapes. I also trimmed some inbetweens overall. The lipsync still reads, though! You can still tell what they’re saying even without audio (which would help it a bit, haha~)
Cutting out that stuff ended the lipsync a whole 14 frames sooner (more than half a second!). It doesn’t sound like much, but with 24 frames per second and dialogue moving at the speed of light, you don’t have time to dilly dally. This isn’t a preschool show;;
Aaaaaand I think that’s it. Liiiipsyyyyyync~~~
Now to go back to actual work and stop talking about things most ppl don’t care about;
I AM CRYING TEARS OF RELIEF BECAUSE I NEED THESE REFERENCES FOR MY SENIOR FILM’S DIALOGUE~
Reblogging this again because I’ve been using this reference for the last 2 months to help with my lip-synch in my film, and I’ve just tested one scene where I used the reference…And my mouth-drawings have improved tenfold ever since.
To the OP who made this chart…I wish I could hug you right now because you helped make my film look much better. c8
This post makes its rounds every so often;; I’m glad people are getting use out of me not wanting to do the actual work I had!
I doodled a couple of Comic for my theory on Sapphire’s eyes, That being that the reason she covers them is because 1) she has an unnatural third eye because of her future vision and thus is seen as a defect. and 2) Every time she looks into another persons eyes, she sees their futures and typically it’s the bad futures, so she covers them to avoid that.
This caused a bit of distrust between her and Ruby when they were first getting to know each other since Ruby thought that Sapphire’s hesitance to get close to her was because she was afraid of Ruby.Though love prevailed and when Sapphire had shown her supposed ‘defect’ Ruby still loved and cared for her just because she was ‘Sapphire’. Ruby was the first person that Sapphire ever saw a bright future with.
special thanks to elasticitymudflap for allowing me to use their awesome homeworld!au designs!!
So like, I’ve noticed that whenever the Crystal Gems warp in without Steven, they’re usually striking a pose. But when they’re with him, they warp pretty normally. Do they strike a pose so that they can look ‘cool’ in front of Steven?
I don’t care if he has a canon design for when he was alive or not, Grim is Jamaican and not a creepy white guy like they tried to make him in the actual show
Okay so, Ya’know how whenever the gems unfuse, they always just basically fall and stuff right? Well I picture Ruby and Sapphire absolutely sucking at landing since they don’t unfuse often 😀 So just picture these babies flailing in the air and falling in awkward positions
AngelMihe 