watching this clip back, the mouth sync actually isn’t the thing i keep paying attention to. the words line up and the character talks. that part is easy to notice. what i’ve started watching more is everything around the mouth. Does the jaw move in a way that still fits the face? do the cheeks suddenly get way more expressive than the rest of the character? does the smile still feel like it belongs to the same face? this clip was made in DomoAI and it holds together pretty well, which is probably why it made me notice that difference. what i’ve started watching for isn’t one huge broken frame. it’s whether the mouth, jaw or expression starts feeling more animated than the rest of the face, until the character starts feeling slightly different. For close-ups especially, i’d take slightly simpler mouth movement over a perfectly articulated mouth that pulls the rest of the face somewhere weird. still feels like a pretty narrow balance though. too little movement looks stiff. too much starts drawing attention to the animation itself. what do you notice first when a talking avatar feels off: the lips, the jaw, or the expressions? submitted by /u/admrys
Originally posted by u/admrys on r/ArtificialInteligence