For the lip sync animation, Lewis and I choose to partner up. The assignment was to create a two-way conversation between our own characters that we created in previous module. We decided to pic my character Zapata, and Lewis’ character Bill, for the lip sync.
After going through various ideas for a short narrative, it seemed appropriate to pic a western themed dialogue, one that would frame Zapata as the ‘Mexican’, and Bill as the ‘Lawman’. To create this scenario we sampled audio from ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly’ final scene. Clint Eastwood would act as the voice of Bill, and the Mexican (The Ugly) as Zapata. I personally edited the audio to fit into a smaller time frame, swapping round lines, and deleting long pauses, often featuring music.
Once completed, I created a background featuring a (nameless) grave and behind, a Arizona inspired desert. The scene was one shot, Zapata would be tied up on the right side of the grave, and Bill standing with a gun and shovel on the left. We both animated our characters separately, creating separate symbols for the body, head, arms, legs, eyes and mouths. The mouths especially had to cover a range of expressions to illustrate the illusion of lip sync; the final film can be viewed below.



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