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30 days of Ace Attorney - Day 1 Favorite male character: Miles Edgeworth // 御剣怜侍 “Our job is to find the truth, no matter how painful it may be.”

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30 days of Ace Attorney - Day 10 The character you never expected to like as much as you do now: Apollo Justice // 王泥喜法介 “C'mon. Can't I be cool for once!?"

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The lip sync tutorial they DON’T give you

I mentioned on twitter that I wanted to do a lip sync tutorial and immediately got some people who were interested so I put one together real quick!

I’m going to use a bit of unfinished lip sync from my taz animated part as reference. They’re just gifs so no sound, but you should still be able to tell that he’s saying “I’d say a solid B… Solid B minus.”

Anyone who’s looked up how to do lip sync has seen phoneme charts. Phonemes are just the shape your mouth makes when you make certain sounds.

When you do lip sync, you want some kind of reference to make sure it’s right

What’s easiest is to say it yourself and pay attention to the shapes your mouth is making. Since you’re going frame by frame, your audio is slow enough that you can make each shape slowly and distinctly and you can get each individual phoneme down in the animation.

Don’t do this.^

An easy way to tell if you’re animating lip sync wrong is if you run out of frames to make each shape. You don’t need them! Making each shape is unnatural. People talk quickly and the mouth doesn’t have the time to get into each shape. They blend together, sometimes to the point where the shape doesn’t change at all!

Not only does the 2nd gif take less frames and energy to make, it’s more relaxed, it looks less distracting, and his lips are much easier to read!

These are reference charts to show the differences more clearly

This is the difference between getting swallowed up in every last detail and paying attention to reality.

What matters more than hitting every syllable is making it look natural and flow with the acting. That’s why anime mouth flaps can work so well. A strong pose through the whole body matters more than one mouth shape.

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Some quick animation smear guides I put together for a friend! not sure if it works as a tutorial without my in person commentary, also more intended as a guide to show examples of basic/common smear types :O

…might make a tutorial on how to use smears another time…

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new op~

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I KNOW EVERYONE’S FREAKING OUT ABOUT ALOLA AND I AM TOO BUT CAN WE APPRECIATE THESE PHOTOS THEY’RE SO CUTE????

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the cut to celebi before they got close.. “forming many different kinds of bonds”.... dude what else do you want me to say

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Lol get stickbugged

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Hello noodle!I really want to make more fun drug thingy stuff and like stuff of my own, but I'm having some serious lack of confidence when I'm drawing. How do you draw things like faces and heads or even bodies? I hope I'm not being bothering

I’m self taught (and actually drawing is my very recent hobby) I don’t have any cool-professional-art-reference-stuff to offer (sorry, heh). 

To be very honest, i don’t even think those things are that important. 

because drawing is literally a HOBBY and there’s no reason to be stressed out while you’re drawing! your artwork is super cool and no one can judge you, friend. enjoy yourself!

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My English is not good so I can’t write in English ,sorry about that and hope this is helpful to you guys : ) 我…英文不好沒辦法把教學用英文表達所以就看圖吧!!

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On Battlegrounds, the first and the last.

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the only one of these i’ll ever make because it’s the best.

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