Ani Arts Living Voices 3: Sound

Moving on to x-sheets and mouth shapes, in order to precisely time and plan the animation.

First I drew the most common shapes in the style of my film, so that I can refer to it.

Then the exposure sheets. These definitely took a lot of time to work out what I was doing. There were a lot of tricks and rules to adhere to, such as focusing more on sound/phonics than individual letters. I also made sure to put the shape in which a beat hits a couple frames before the sound itself.