Since the beginning of the week I’ve been working on a second lip synch animation, using some dialogue from Harry Langdon, a character from the days of silent films (and unfortunately a somewhat obscure name today), who was the live action inspiration for Richard Williams’ cobbler character of The Thief and the Cobbler.
So much of Langdon’s dialogue is charming and personality-filled here I genuinely wanted to use the entire two minutes of him speaking, but two minutes of animation is thousands of frames, and I only have a week or two to get this done! I begrudgingly settled with a single line, using a guinea pig character.
The drawings are almost done, but I’ll soon need some inbetweens and thereafter will need to shoot and export the lot, but I’m keen to see just how it turns out.