Lip Sync


I decided to choose my own audio for this elective. I chose to do so as a way to motivate me to continue the project throughout animation.

The scene I chose is one from the 90s sitcom, Becker. a nurse and her assistant discuss how the doctor (their boss) was shot in the arm. The assistant explains how jealous she is of the nice treatment he’s getting in the hospital, before the nurse reminds her that he was shot. 

I wanted to use a humorous audio, as I’ve created a lot of dark and unhappy projects recently, and wanted a nice change of pace.


I initially knew that I wanted to create characters that looked like they could be from a children’s cartoon, even though the audio clearly wasn’t. 

Therefore I decided on a simple, wholesome design with clear colour coordination (one being pink and one blue). I decided to base my two characters off animals, to represent their respected personalities. 

I sketched out some initial ideas, basing each character off a shape, but I still didn’t think that they were stylised enough.


I redesigned my characters, basing them more around the shapes I chose. not only is this more stylised and “cuter” but I know it’ll be much easier to animate too. This design also gives my characters clearer silhouettes.


Background paintings


X sheet