From the course: 2D Animation: Tips and Tricks

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Cartoony female mouth shapes

Cartoony female mouth shapes

- [Voiceover] In a previous movie I showed you how to create a dialogue sequence with a cartoony male figure, and so now I want to show you a similar process with a cartoony female figure, although her attributes are slightly more realistic and subtle than the super-cartoony and goofy looking male figure, she's still pretty interesting, she's fun to look at. I really enjoyed animating this. And I actually hand drew it, 'cause it was looking nice, and if you're wondering how I hand drew it, I hand drew it in Photoshop, and it has a nice little timeline feature now, the later versions, I think CS 5.5 and above have a very basic timeline feature, but it does allow you to do hand drawn inbetweens, you might want to look into that. So as you can see the face has a little weight to the cheeks. We're moving everything, the entire area's plastic, meaning it's flexible, so as the mouth moves down, the lower eyelid moves down. You know I did lock in this shape here around the eye, but I could…

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