Angie again…
I have to say the cookie monster makes me giggle like a little girl.


Did someone say muppets? I know this has little to do with animation directly…but if I had understood when I was little that being a muppeteer was a job?!! Well, I dunno, I probably would be out of work right now, but that is not the point.

Okay seriously. We talk about animating dialog in the book and one thing these muppeteers understood is to have the mouth “open” when it should be open and “closed” when it should be closed. This is why such simple muppets can look so alive.

If you can do this first, then all the extra bits you layer on top of the animation will only reinforce those beats. Try looking at the waveform and just open and close the jaw when you see the wave form spike and subside…and massage from there.

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