Say AH

So today my laptop decided it will no longer allow any browsers to work. Damn it. I am posting this from my iPad. Biggest issue with that is I can't post from the web on it, and the app is made for the iPhone, not the iPad, so while I can kind of sorta use it I do not have full usability and there are a lot of glitches. Like the fact it likes to eat my post titles. And I have no control over categories for tags. And pictures are a hit and miss venture. But I attempt anyway cause I have been having fun and I want to try to pass the fun onto you.

So while experimenting with making Sculpey eyes it occured to me that I could also make Sculpy mouths and not have to worry about my sculpting
skills more than once. I could even animate things other than clay puppets with them. So I researched sand found on the interwebs a lip chart for cartooning. It had cartoon mouths in different positions for animating speach. I used it as a pattern, and here is what I came up with:

They were white when I sculpted them. I burned em a bit, just like I did with the eyes. I realy need to learn how to bake Sculpey in a toaster oven without scorching it. Looks red and creepy. Anyway, I was planning on painting them so it doesn't matter. Just means I had to go out and grab white paint for the teeth.

So here is what they look like painted:

Not a great paint job, but not too bad. I did the tongues with red nail polish. I kinda like how they turned out. So now I am playing around with them. I have labeled them a through i. I am writing out sentances from my web series script abd underneath adding the letter of the mouth that should be used with each word. Next I will try shooting them and getting the right timing down. How many frames per word to make it natural? Multiple pics per mouth, or only one? At this point i am not sure, but I plan to find out. If I get anything good I will share it with you.

Wish me luck.