Initial Lip Sync Animation

    This is some very basic Lip Syncing animation, the first in learning how to sync speech to audio. Like everything in Maya this must all be put in manually, which involves listening to the audio over and over and over to get the right feel for how them outh moves.

    This test in particular is nothing elaborate, just a basic moving up and down of the character's jaw in time to the line being spoken. One key instruction for this stage was not to imagine the character's emotions or feelings (that would come later), the important factor at this stage is that the movement of the jaw is right, which will define what is being done by the rest of the face.