I don't really have any particular vids to promote but I thought I would give a small primer on gauging the quality and level of skill that goes into lip synching. There are two forms to consider...frame and character. Let's look at the frame levels first:
1. Static frame.
2. Single or Double axis mono-directional movement.
3. Single or Double axis multi-directional movement.
4. Virtual frame movement across all three axis in variable directional movement (ie the camera floating around a characters body).
Now let's look at the character types:
1. Static character.
2. Character moving across one dimension (ie walking along a road), static head.
3. Character moving across two dimensions (ie walking up a flight of stairs from a side view), static head.
4. Character head movement.
So the higher the number, the more complex. A 2x1 lip synch for example wouldn't be as technically impressive as a 2x4 lip synch. Also the numbers are equal in complexity so a 2x4 lip synch would be just as impressive as a 4x2 lip synch. You can also represent them as a whole number by following the multiplication through, so a 3x2 lip synch would be a 6 out of 16 on this scale.
There are other factors to consider too. These include:
1. Duration of the synch.
2. Complexity of the synch as measure by the number of syllables.
3. Complexity of the synch as measured by the number of real life lip forms.
4. Number of lip forms used (often a person will use just three - closed, half open, wide open).
5. Repetition of words (obviously a song that uses the same phrase over and over is gonna be a heck of a lot easier than one with continually changing lyrics.
So based on that criteria it shouldn't be too hard to skip all the posturing that's going on in here and simply examine the ACTUAL numbers of complexity. This is very much a NON subjective form.
1. Static frame.
2. Single or Double axis mono-directional movement.
3. Single or Double axis multi-directional movement.
4. Virtual frame movement across all three axis in variable directional movement (ie the camera floating around a characters body).
Now let's look at the character types:
1. Static character.
2. Character moving across one dimension (ie walking along a road), static head.
3. Character moving across two dimensions (ie walking up a flight of stairs from a side view), static head.
4. Character head movement.
So the higher the number, the more complex. A 2x1 lip synch for example wouldn't be as technically impressive as a 2x4 lip synch. Also the numbers are equal in complexity so a 2x4 lip synch would be just as impressive as a 4x2 lip synch. You can also represent them as a whole number by following the multiplication through, so a 3x2 lip synch would be a 6 out of 16 on this scale.
There are other factors to consider too. These include:
1. Duration of the synch.
2. Complexity of the synch as measure by the number of syllables.
3. Complexity of the synch as measured by the number of real life lip forms.
4. Number of lip forms used (often a person will use just three - closed, half open, wide open).
5. Repetition of words (obviously a song that uses the same phrase over and over is gonna be a heck of a lot easier than one with continually changing lyrics.
So based on that criteria it shouldn't be too hard to skip all the posturing that's going on in here and simply examine the ACTUAL numbers of complexity. This is very much a NON subjective form.