I had a lot of fun animating this, especially with the audio track I used having such well pronounced words. Using 12 fps also made me have to prioritise between phonemes - there weren't actually enough frames for every single movements that needed making, so I concentrated on the more pronounced sounds and animated them. I think that the animation still works though, and it is a lot smoother than I expected from my first time doing this.
I had the whole head on quick selected when I keyed this, so when I went back to change the eyebrows and add expressions, I couldn't do it without having to change every single key. I found out later on that I could have just selected the eyebrows and eyes and break connections would have taken the key frames off them so that I could animate them but I had already moved on when I found that out. Still, I know for next time and this was one of the tasks I enjoyed the most this module so far, especially being able to concentrate on just one aspect of animating rather than a whole body. I would like to try this again in the future but adding expressions and head movements to really put some feeling into what the character is saying - I think that using different accents or emotions could affect the way some of the mouth movements would be as well, like a lot more exaggeration when a playful character is talking, or much more controlled and subtle for more serious ones. Even speech impediments and habits could effect this, so that is something to take into consideration.
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