I used my plasticine puppet for the chosen lip sync task. This will be part of a collaborative film with some of my course mates which is a prison lineup. I put my best voice acting to work for my patriarchy dismantling drag queen!
Again with this being my first experience of claymation I made a lot of mistakes and learned a lot from them. One thing I learned soon was that a the time I spent perfecting the details of this puppet was a waste! I had imagined the arms looking a certain way when I had my final sculpture but the shapes didn’t really translate when I was manipulating them and they look a bit deformed in places. I think it would have been better to keep them as more of a tube shape. The blinks also ended up being a bit messy because of the way I sculpted them.
I am very happy with the lip sync, the mouth shapes worked well and even though the words in the audio are quite complex the lip sync is convincing. I didn’t end up using all of the mouth shapes that I made but at least I have them for the future! I think I managed to animate some nice movement which fit into the rhythm of the audio without having too much go on. I would have liked the beginning to have more of a pause when the character touches their head so it looked like they were contemplating more.
I made this rough comp for the purpose of the assignment but it definitely needs some improvement! I enjoyed creating this lip sync but didn’t particularly get on with the plasticine puppet because it wasn’t as sturdy as my other ones.