ABOUT

I created this animation from a photograph of a bust by separating the image in to layers in Photoshop and then rigging and animating the facial expressions in 2D animation software Moho. Individual controls allow the eyebrows, eyelids, eyes, jaw and mouth to be animated separately. Different mouth poses for vowels and consonants can be blended together for lip-synching.

Maya was used to enhance the 3D aspect of the flat image and to add lighting for rendering with Arnold. The audio track was created from a text to speech program and After Effects was used for compositing.