Candy Highway Animation Test - Lip Sync

This is an animation linetest I created for my university's classwork in which we were tasked to animate over a slice of dialogue audio. The audio we were given was a spoken excerpt from Gollulm of Lord of the Rings, in which he denies the blame for "Golluming All Over the Damn Place". 

 

The classwork required me to draw about 8 different faces I could use to enunciate the specific words and letters in Gollum's dialogue. Now, being an animation student with an almost terrifying love of the arts, I wanted to push myself to make the linetest more visually appealling by using not only a head with hair, eyebrows, but her body too, the whole shabang.

 

I also wanted to differentiate each expression as much as I could whilst still making them seamessly connect to eachother.

 

 [Pictured: Base sketches of the expressions. Started with heads first before moving onto the body!

 

[Pictured: The finalised expressions used for the animation. Look at those gompers!!