As part of the animation, Katy and I will have to animate the animals talking. This is something I've never actually done before, nor do I know how to do it. So I started by looking at Richard Williams' Animator's Survival Kit. In it I found some really useful tips on animating dialogue and learnt that there are actually only a few main mouth shapes we make when we're speaking and that the rest of the words we kind of just mumble and slur. The book also suggested that you don't necessarily have to create every single mouth shape, but focus more on the important vowels and consonants that change the shape of your mouth whilst you talk and this will also create the illusion of speech quite well.
Because we are focusing on animals I searched for phonetic charts that showed the mouth shapes of animals to make it a little easier to create the shapes. Although the book and the chart will help me to get started with this section of the animation, I feel that I would benefit more from practicing with some simple sentences. To do this I will sit in front of a mirror at home and attempt to animate a few words to see how it will work. I've also decided to record our voice artists while they talk in order to see how their mouth moves when they are talking in character to help with the mouth shapes and the personality of the characters.
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| Animal Phonetic chart |
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