Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition, 3rd Edition
by Harold Whitaker, Tom Sito, John Halas
Lip-Sync—2
The first step is to make the character’s actions fit his words. If he is aggressive he will tend to thrust himself forward and reinforce certain points with gestures. If he is shy he may shrink away and speak apologetically, and if he is crafty he may pretend to smile, while giving quick glances to see the reaction to his words, and so on.
The second step consists of moving the character’s lips and perhaps the lower part of the face, to fit the frame-by-frame phonetic breakdown of the speech on the exposure chart (Fig. 66). Here it is important to listen repeatedly to the way the dialogue is spoken. There is a broad tendency for the mouth and lower jaw to open on a vowel sound and close on a consonant. In a normally spoken sentence ...
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