ABSTRACT
In limited animation, sound is a crucial component in the storytelling process. Sounds can be dialog, music, and sound effects. This chapter focuses on incorporating audio into the Flash movie and character animation techniques to bring the words being spoken to life. Vibrating objects, such as guitar strings or vocal cords, generate waves of rapidly varying air pressure. Electronic representations of sound waves can be recorded in either digital or analog formats. Animation focuses a lot of attention on character movement to convey emotion and drive the narrative forward. Lip synchronization is the technique of moving an animated character’s mouth in such a way that it appears to speak in “sync” with the audio. The art of lip synchronization revolves around the visualization of sounds, or phonetics. Animating dialog can be a time-consuming process in Flash. The chapter explores the character animation techniques that are used to bring the spoken words to life.
