Insanely Easy Lip-Sync Animation in After Effects

In this video we go over the easiest way to create a mouth rig for lip-sync animations in After Effects.

A new tool called SF Caddy helps skip the complicated mess of expressions and slider controllers and simplifies and stream lines the whole process to a couple of steps. In this tutorial I show how to create your character rig, and set up your lip-sync so its ready in just minutes.

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[willieblgnaut]

Keyframe assistant > Sequence layers... I have been using After Effects for 13 years and I was today years old when I learned this.

[dumplingduppy]

loved this video thanks man the lip sync at the end felt off tho

[judgeworks]

when in a hurry I've also used character animator, loaded mouth shapes, imported audio, had computer analyze audio, it automatically then chooses the mouth shapes for the dialogue but you can then go into the timeline and finesse the mouth key frames, export as png sequence or alph chanel movie then import to AE.

[vishavaroraYT]

thnq sir.. i've been wanted to learn this for so long

[lenishkhatiwada]

thank you buddy need more video like this

[EdaliaDayCreative]

This is great. Just downloaded it. It's saving me so much time.

[tsukune.onoderatompntchewo]

Thanks for the video it’s will be useful for me, I need to do that for blender (3Dsoft) lego

[nicklegostava]

Please somebody make this for Lego mouths & a bonus would be usable in Sony Vagus Pro 14.

[chongpeikay]

why i was unable to find the load items like what you had done in the video

[strangelord]

Hey man can you make a video of how to make a character in illustrator which can be suitable for rigging and animation? It would be really really helpful! Love your videos!

[anupkaushik]

Have you parented face with mouth for animation in final render ?

[tonylavagnaart]

Quick question. Does SF-Caddy animate the inbetweens of mouth movements?. for example, if I have a mouth shape of "O" and then a mouth shape of "Ah", will it just flick from one image to the next, or will SF-Caddy seamlessly animate one image to the next?

[chahak]

sir I want to know if we name the layers properly in illustrator only, will it be required to rename in After Effects again?

[liucanjung]

it's great video and great tool. Just bought it last night coz of this video! I just wondering how you rigged the hand so smoothly? you change the hand pose seamlessly. do you use Limber or Duik or another tool? I'm lil bit frustrated with making dialogue animation like this. Thank you Buddy

[xLinggx]

Hi, not sure why when I click "Load Items" in SF Caddy it keeps popping out this message: "Please select composition with maximum 100 frames". Can somebody help?

[adam-sjsq]

this is difficult making animation in after effects still could not make out i dont understand those video this hard

[emelio]

This method is good, but I think it's only good for flat, simple characters. If you're about to animate a more realistic 2D character, with lots of details/ shadows etc...The mouth won't look natural, but very robotic so it won't match the detailed character appearance well enough.

[stormproductions]

Why don't we want the layers sequenced upwards?

[Starrytchi]

Is there a good free alternative like this? This is right up my ally but I can’t afford it.

[Imblu]

Aaaa yes... plug in that u have to buy...