Animation for Univercity Of Portsmouth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vSGyxxBBkM

This is the documentary the University of Portsmouth made. Ex-student of the media department of Crawley College Ian Heartfield was part of this documentary and needed a stop motion sequence and contacted me for the opportunity. When I watch the film I noticed they used my stop motion sequence for the opening title. I was so happy to get such an opportunity and thought I would share what it was I did.

How I add lip syncing with movements

 Firstly Iv record the audio and go through the audio on a video editor so I can listen to when someones mouth is open when talking. I write down how many frames the mouth is open per word and how long the mouth is shut between each word. During the recording this helps me to know what the limit of frames I can take and what actions to do and when.

When I have finished taking each frame I draw the mouth pieces in on each character, I used to use Microsoft Paint but I recently editing all frames more efficient in Photoshop and putting them together into film, I used to use MonkeyJam but Photoshop can handle it much better.