Tracing patterns from a book into Clo3D
This is exciting!
After Effects how to build a Mouth Rig for Lip Syncing, Gigantic Slider
SIT has procured Papagayo and Lip Sync Pro for me to research as part of my Professional Development. I've chosen to focus on lip syncing for the whole 10 days because I'm shy about doing it and therefore shy about teaching it. If I want to continue animating children's music videos, learning how to do this efficiently and effectively will come in handy. We already have Adobe Animate and Character Animator software and Toonboom also has lip syncing modules. I will also look at After Effects and their lip syncing tools.
My intention is to create a sequence of animation and lip sync in each of the software packages so I can compare and contrast the pipeline and results. I'm going to use assets I'm already working with for Follow Your Heart, Waste Free Wanda, and Girl and the Imagination Warehouse. I'm going to concentrate on 2D and Stop-motion animation over 3D because those are the assets I have handy and the kind of animation that I'm working with most frequently. As part of my research, I can look into 3D lip sync but I don't anticipate that I will be doing any practical tests in Maya.
Lip syncing gets done after all other steps of the animation have been finished. This includes facial expressions, eye brow movements, etc. 3 Steps to Improve your Lip Syncing.
Puppetry, like Kermit the Frog or other Sesame Street characters, has some good tips on getting lip syncing right. The puppeteer responds to the biggest beats of what's being said and not to hitting everything, which ends up with a floppy floppy mouth.
Don't spend too much time overanalysing every mouth shape when speaking- this leads to overdone lip syncing.
Phonemes: There are 26 letters in the English alphabet but 44 sounds are created using those letters. The letters are then broken into consonants and vowels.
https://www.dyslexia-reading-well.com/44-phonemes-in-english.html
keywords to search for to look for extra resources
transformative learning
summative assessment
normative and criterion-referenced assessment
contact kathryn and ask if there are any descriptors written for new strand classes yet to practice on
Reading #1 Ch. 9 Course Design and Assessment for Transformation
Linda Leach, Guyon Neutze. and Nick Zepke
Excellent look at Course Design and Assessments. In particular, page 164 has rubrics table that uses really precise language to gauge student's abilities in an assessment. Norm-referenced, achievement-based, and standards-based assessments are all covered. Lots of questions to ask before starting to make an assessment up so you're sure it's going to do the right things for the right people. p.174 addresses something that i struggle with during marking: the Bell Curve. Or that only some are excellent, most are mediocre, and some must fail. Instead, we are invited to consider that everyone could do well which is possible with standards for achievement-based assessments.
Recommended readings at end of chapter:
Curriculum Design
Barnett, R. (1994). The Limits of Competence: Knowledge, Higher Education and Society. Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press.
Eisner, E. (1994). The Educational Imagination (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.
Toohey, S. (1999). Designing Courses for Higher Education. Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press.
Assessment;
Broadfoot, P. (1996). Education, Assessment and Society. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Cangelosi, J. (2000). Assessment Strategies for Monitoring Student Learning. New York: Longman.
Raven, J., & Stephenson, J. (2001). Competence in the Learning Society. New York: P. Lang.
Glossary:
Formative assessment: assessment to help learners improve by providing feedback. It does not contribute to the final judgment of the learning.
Summative assessment: assessment to measure whether the learner has met the learning outcomes and which contributes to the final judgment of performance. Usually a mark or grade is assigned.
Readings I have found:
Salmons, Janet. Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn : Engaging Students in the Classroom and Online, Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sitlibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5748777.
