01-02i, "I think it'll be fun"

So the first time I animated sync dialogue for a film I said, "I am so going to do full animation because no one expects an anime influenced style to do lipsync."  And so I did, and it kind of sucked because I drew lip shapes for every single vowel.  Then in a 3D Animation class, my professor, Mark Reisch explained to us how people are actually very lazy about moving their mouths.  At this moment I actually forget the more scientific breakdown of how mouths move based on shapes.  But I remember that one good way to tell is to say the dialogue yourself and actually listen to the sound and write it out, for example, "I think it'll be fun" as, "Ayee-tink-ittle-beeh-fahn"  Another good idea of course, that goes for all forms of animation is to actually record yourself doing the action and use it as a reference (much like references for still art).  It's actually a very good way to work.  It's quite common for animators to at least act out what they're animating at some point during a shot even if they don't record it, just paying attention to how your body/face feels while doing it.  I recall another professor, Johnny Robinson, saying that it's not uncommon to see animators skipping around the studio like little girls- Although that could just be a very nice excuse....

Anyway this shot, I kind of cheated on, like I will be for a lot of shots because it was already done....just not as well as I wanted.  So what you're seeing here was 90% drawn in 2010, but I've been trying to fudge around little tweaks to make each individual drawing more solid so that when i convert this to an animation on 2s it'll be amazing.  This shot will probably take a lot longer than 01-01iii and I already know it has less screen time LOL.