Category: animating dialogue

AnimSchool General Review: Min Hong by JP Sans

AnimSchool Instructor and DreamWorks Animator, JP Sans, reviews AnimSchool student Min Hong’s dialogue test from his Character Performance class. In this review, JP describes how to use the cheeks to help amplify a dialogue test.

This clip is from one of AnimSchool’s General Review sessions.
AnimSchool offers General Reviews for 3D modeling, rigging and animation
students several times a week, for those who would like an extra
critique.

AnimSchool Classtime: Simplifying Dialogue

In AnimSchool’s Character Performance class, instructor Garrett Shikuma, covers animating dialogue. Here’s one of the tips he gave his students about the importance of simplifying mouth shapes when animating dialogue.