2D Character Animation: Dialogue and Acting

Animate a character for lip sync and acting: character animation in Adobe Animate

Created by: Siobhan Twomey
Artist, Animator & Figure Drawing Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• You'll learn animation techniques to bring a character to life!
• You'll learn how to add a dialogue track
• How to create mouth shapes
• How to animate the mouth to the dialogue
• How to animate key poses, with anticipation + overshoot
• How to rig your character to animate eye blinks, hand poses and facial expressions
• How to animate a scene
• You'll learn Adobe Animate

Requirements

• To take this course, you should have a basic understanding of animation principles: I've covered these in the first 2 courses in this series, so check them out first if you need to!
• In this course I use Adobe Animate, but you can apply the workflow to any animation software

Target audience

• Animators and character designers
• Illustrators
• Storytellers
• Anyone interested in animation, who wants to learn animating techniques