Living Voice Conclusion of the class

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inspiration
The inspiration for this animation design is my little brother and my cat. I have a cat who has been with me for five years and a little brother who is seven years old. My little brother is very fond of my cat and always holds him in his arms and whispers to him. Whenever I meet my little brother and my cat whispering, he always hides from me, like guarding their little secret. My cat loves my little brother. We have been living together since he was born. When my little brother was a little child, they grew up together and my cat became a member of my family! My little brother often asks my cat to call him brother, and my cat likes to follow my little brother and wonder what he is doing every time. Now a boy and a cat have become inseparable friends, and I am very happy that they can get along so well! However, a five-year-old cat is already a very mature cat when translated into human age. When I heard the teacher playing this audio in class, I immediately thought of them. So I wanted to draw a picture of my little brother and my cat! I think maybe this is how my little brother and my cat spend time together.
Animation reference
I refer to one of my favorite animations The Garden Wall, whose color background is very attractive to me. The expressions of the animated characters are also very rich, which has always attracted me to see several times.
Animation character design
Because the two cartoon characters both have the reference prototype in my mind, I designed the little boy’s personality enthusiasm and his hat, clothes and shoes in red, and the cartoon character has a cute temperament with many strange expressions. And the cat’s character design, square face and relatively round eyebrows, I think very suitable for its mature personality.
The background design
I designed their background as a small corner of the room only belonging to the two of them. The yellow background wall and light blue carpet put my brother and other toys to make the whole picture more complete. Because my little brother likes to pile his toys in a small corner, and he often introduces to me how different his toys are. Therefore, WHEN designing the background, I also integrate other toys collected by him.
Color choices
I think a warm picture needs a lot of warm colors to set off the atmosphere, so I used a lot of yellow, red and orange in the picture. The warm tones make the whole boy and cat atmosphere more harmonious. I design both the boy’s clothes and the cat’s tie in red, which gives people a warm feeling and makes the picture more harmonious under the same color.
Difficulties encountered in the design
This is my first living voice animation, which is much harder than I expected. At first, I thought that all the voices could be matched as long as the animation characters moved their mouths. However, I made a mistake and some mouth shapes were different from the size of the mouth cards, which led to the need to redraw all the mouth shapes in the first half of my drawing. I held a mirror in front of me and wrote down the size of my mouth on a piece of paper as I spoke. The process of recording the mouth shape is very long, and more time is needed for repeated confirmation of the voice in a short period of more than ten seconds. Not only is living voice difficult, but you also have to pay attention to the pauses when the characters speak after matching their animation with sound. After this lip-synching animation practice, I will pay more attention to the changes of facial expressions brought by mouth movements during pronunciation in the future, and improve my depiction of the details of the characters’ facial expressions.
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