The second of a set of two tutorials: different approaches to using Rhubarb Lipsync with Blender. This one is on animating a mouth with shapekeys – the first is on stopmotion-style animation.
00:00 - Intro 00:23 - Downloading and installing the addon and project files 01:12 - Intro to the blendfile and its shapekeys 02:45 - Set up the armature 04:48 - Set up the drivers 05:28 - Attach drivers to bones 11:15 - Pose Library 13:20 - Preparing Rhubarb - importing sound
RHUBARB LIPSYNC is an open-source automated lipsync program by Daniel S Wolf. It was used on the 2017 Ron Gilbert adventure game Thimbleweed Park.
Rhubarb Lipsync Page: https://github.com/DanielSWolf/rhubarb-lip-sync
Rhubarb Lipsync Download: https://github.com/DanielSWolf/rhubarb-lip-sync/releases
The RHUBARB LIPSYNC BLENDER ADDON for it is by Scaredyfish: https://github.com/scaredyfish/blender-rhubarb-lipsync
The BLEND FILES used in the tutorial can be downloaded here:
https://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/92431
The MOUTH REFERENCE IMAGE can be found here:
http://yogyog.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/shaperef.png
SISTER TUTORIAL: Blender + Rhubarb Lipsync : Stopmotion Style