Activity 2: Mouth Shapes Overview

T-ANIMCO2-006-002

In this topic, you will learn about the main mouth shapes.

Material

To complete this topic, you will need the following from the sample material you downloaded:

• MO-ANIMCO2-006/01-lip-sync-assets.tpl

A conventional mouth chart used in the animation industry. Note that there exists variants of the common mouth chart, but here is the main one listing the most common mouth shapes.

Here is an approximation of the sound each mouth shape can produce:

• A: m, b, p, h
• B: s, d, j, i, k, t
• C: e, a
• D: A, E
• E: o
• F: u, oo
• G: f, ph
• X: Silence, undetermined sound

Author

• Stacey Eberschlag
• Senior Solutions Specialist
• toonboom.com