11secondclub May critique

Kevin Koch my previous mentor 11secondClub May Critique

another explanation on that confusing line from Richard Williams:
when you look at some of the classic animation by some of the best animators, often when you really look closely the lipsynch isn't very good. And nobody really notices or cares, because they hit the main accents well, and more importantly they progress the action well, there's something interesting going on, they're hitting the accents with the head or the body or the hand and the character is going somewhere, doing something. Nobody watches the muppets and says "wait a minute, Kermit didn't hit a good R shape" It's just flap flap flap, you believe it because the character is doing something, is going somewhere with the scene, the action is progressing in the scene.

what is your character doing? physically with their bodies, and mentally what are they thinking plotting worrying about?

virtually all large vocal accents are on vowels.

old school animation masters would do a lot of walk and talks, and before they would start animating they would mark out where their big vocal accent lands, and time their walk so that the vocal accent would come right after the down of the walk so from the follow thru on the jaw they could justify an even Larger open mouth