Your Nose Is Broke

I’ve spent time working with the awesome illustrations in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual by creating a couple of coloring books for my kids here and here. I felt like I could use the monsters for more than just coloring.

This little video was quite a labor and not exactly what I had originally envisioned. I haven’t previously done lip sync animation, so the method I chose was to create three mouth shapes, closed, a little open, and wide open.  I then tried to match them to the peaks and valleys of the audio waveform of the dialogue. I felt this effort would make this project good for the Lip Read mashup assignment.

I actually started this project quite some time ago, but was so frustrated by it I gave it up for months. I had wanted Rocky (the pink Owlbear) to walk in from the left, and Mickey (the blue Eye of the Deep) to have his tentacles moving wildly.

I think Rocky makes for a good owlbear which has a ‘hug’ attack. And Mickey’s squint eye probably has the same stun effect as the eye of the deep.

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2 responses to “Your Nose Is Broke”

  1. Alan Levine Avatar

    9 seconds of glory! It very smooth

    Has me thinking we should conjure an animation assignment a la the cut styles of Monty Python, old school analog style (recently saw an archive video of a super young Terry Gilliam demonstrating the craft)

    1. mbransons Avatar

      So funny you mention that video. Daniel Phelps introduced me to it as part of an assignment he did with his motion graphics class last semester. I actually started this bit inspired by them, but only just finished it. Check out the students’ work on on his class blog. Leeza Walke’s piece is particularly amazing.