I love this! I have parrots who speak and birds are mainly what I draw, so I was really excited to see you talk about this. I'm not a fan of when animators force teeth into the mouths of birds, or turn the mouth into a tube with an O at the end. Personally I think it looks so much better when you simply work with the anatomy like you did here. Bravo!
Yeah the teeth thing is just weird and the tube thing only works if your using a very cartoony style that has already tossed any form realism off a cliff
That usually depends. Iago from “Aladdin” has teeth (because he’s a caricature of his VA Gilbert Gottfried) and they found a way to make that work. Sometimes having one brief shot of a bird with teeth can work to emphasize a gag. There’s one brief shot in “The Lion King” of Zazu with teeth when he painfully reacts to Scar scraping his claws against the cave wall. Having birds with teeth all the time isn’t a good thing, but having them once in a while is okay for the sake of comedy. That’s how I look at it.
I have a pet budgie that knows how to talk. A key point to watch for when using real birds as reference is that they "talk" with their throats. You can actually see them change the shape of their throats to form the words and you can actually "see" the words they say. It's very interesting to see how the throats bulge and shrink and how the feathers fluff and part away from each other as they form words and sounds. Birds only open their beaks to make a sound louder, clearer, or sharper; all the major phonetical pronounciation is done in the syrinx. Ravens, mynas, African grey parrots, budgerigars are all common birds to take reference from because they talk and say words really clearly and there is a lot of reference material out there.
Great point, I'm not sure if I've ever seen birds animated that way with their throat feathers moving like that but I know exactly what you're talking about, it's all about the syrinx!
The thing about "hitting accents" instead of going for 1:1 lip sync is even more important when you consider a lot of cartoons get dubbed for international releases! I never watched a single Disney film in the original english version growing up, so perfect lip sync would have probably distracted me a ton, haha.
Something I like when animators do is instead of putting "oo" shapes at the end of the beak, putting the "oo" at the fleshy part at the base of the beak, as well as other things that require lip movement. And then the rest is just hitting the accents. I like it more than putting the "oo" at the end because it makes their beak feel floppy.
It’s better than the animations I’ve seen of the beak talking with shows like Regular show and TucaxBertie. Like the movement is so smooth and beautiful without the beaks doing the odd O shapes. Surf’s Up also has some interesting beak animations that I don’t mind. Honestly Love the animation in that movie.
As a penguin lover, I absolutely love this. The lesson is very helpful for those who draw bird characters and I hope to one day use this to help me work on my penguin characters when I learn animation. Thank you so much Aaron 💜🐧👍🏻
I have a mainly bird based chimera, and every time I tried to animated him, it always ended up looking more draconic than bird. (I.e. broader than normal trying to get mouth shapes to look right.) The occasional teeth for certain vowels and consonants didn't help . . .
OMG I NEEDED THIS!! I gotta edit one of my Fursonas into an animation who happens to be a duck. I had NO IDEA how to animate his beak, but thanks to you, MY INSPIRATION HAS STRUCK!! Tysm for your wisdom, sir!
The animation is amazing! And the dialogue was hilarious! You can tell what their personalities are like just from those few seconds alone! I love it! 😍😍😍😍😍
What I like to do, depending on what an animal character says- is how the head moves. I like to move the head of the animal to match the way the lips of a human is supposed to move.
I love this, I mainly animate dinosaurs (usually feathered and/or ornithischian ones, they often have that beak-ish shtick!) and I actually like to think of them as muppets as a base, and then adding more refined lipsync for those who happen to have softer lips/snouts.
This is awesome. I’m just getting into animating myself and the tip about drawing mouth frames just ahead of dialogue is super insightful. Thanks for this!!
I LOVE THIS. I’m going to school to study and work with animals, but I also love art. seeing the 2 together is amazing as well as the intention and knowledge that goes into what we see and hear on screen. it’s wayyyy more than just throwing lines and colors together. thank you for showing us this!
Thank you! Just what I needed, I've been figuring out how to move those hard and stable beaks into something more animative! I love birds just how they are and I started drawing birds when I was 4, now I'm animating them! *Thank you so mutch for the video!!*
This is so great and helpful! I'm trying to learn how to animate visemes because they're a little hard for me to visualize but I'm glad you shared and demonstrated these cool "tricks" to use!!! Thank you for your work!!!
This is really helpful. I'm currently trying to learn animation on my own, when I have the time and your videos help a lot! I also really admire Richard Williams, and his stuff helps too. I appreciate these videos you put out for those who want to learn but don't have all the time in the world or money to do so!
I love birds and this video is so helpful! Will definitely remember this when I animate birds, although I'm a 3D animator myself, the same ideas should apply even in 3D.
This was really helpful! I hardly ever write human characters, animals are just a lot more fun for me, especially with all of the body language and diversity with different creatures. one of my projects has chickens, and while i have pet chickens, it's really hard to animate them talking, and while the birds with teeth and malleable beak works in some styles, im personally not a fan.
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I wonder if anyone has ever tried to animate a parrot speaking, well, the way they actually do. It's really interesting; the two halfs -- halves? -- of the beak are able to move independently of each other, which I don't think is the case with most birds. Like I said, really fascinating.
This is good. But why not go the Milt Kahl/Don Bluth route & bend the beak a bit more & give'm teeth like they would in their character designs? They're not biologically correct, but so what? It'll give'm even more personality. Why not try it & see if it makes a difference?
I have in the past. It all depends on the art direction and this is the extreme case where the directors wouldn’t want that. I’m trying to show that you can still get away with it.
For me it just looks way better when you keep the beak biologically correct. You can probably get away with teeth in something super cartoony or comedic, but in a story where the character designs and story are a bit more grounded it becomes weird.
I’m genuinely wondering if you’ve ever seen a beak drawn with teeth-? I’m not trying to be rude or anything, I merely find stuff like that super uncomfortable and unnerving to look at.. like a plush toy with sewn-in human teeth or something, it’s just- wrong in my head. I mean, how cartoony would it have to be to stop being so creepy looking, and -if you have any- could you send some animation examples from movies/etc with this trait?
@@Inno4138 - Plenty of Donald Duck cartoons had Donald's beak grinding or bearing his teeth. So did Daffy Duck, Jeremy the Crow from Secret of NIMH, Scuttle from Little Mermaid - just to name a small few. It's not disturbing at all. It's perfectly acceptable iwhen it comes to cartoons.
I LOVE THIS. I’m going to school to study and work with animals, but I also love art. seeing the 2 together is amazing as well as the intention and knowledge that goes into what we see and hear on screen. it’s wayyyy more than just throwing lines and colors together. thank you for showing us this!
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I love this! I have parrots who speak and birds are mainly what I draw, so I was really excited to see you talk about this. I'm not a fan of when animators force teeth into the mouths of birds, or turn the mouth into a tube with an O at the end. Personally I think it looks so much better when you simply work with the anatomy like you did here. Bravo!
Same! Literally having the same issues
Same here!
Omg same!
Yeah the teeth thing is just weird and the tube thing only works if your using a very cartoony style that has already tossed any form realism off a cliff
Same
This is so useful, so many animation studios give them TEETH. Like Penguin and The Pebble, it's awful.
To be fair, that was Don Bluths' style, and I actually think it worked really well with it. But any other attempt does NOT look like it was done right
That’s true. But on a different note I love that film.
Zazu had teeth at times, didn't he?
@@artisannoteworthy You're right, the style wasn't bad for that movie. It was just the first example I had.
That usually depends. Iago from “Aladdin” has teeth (because he’s a caricature of his VA Gilbert Gottfried) and they found a way to make that work. Sometimes having one brief shot of a bird with teeth can work to emphasize a gag. There’s one brief shot in “The Lion King” of Zazu with teeth when he painfully reacts to Scar scraping his claws against the cave wall. Having birds with teeth all the time isn’t a good thing, but having them once in a while is okay for the sake of comedy. That’s how I look at it.
Really needed this because I tend to create bird characters
Same
same dude and plant aliens
I have a pet budgie that knows how to talk. A key point to watch for when using real birds as reference is that they "talk" with their throats. You can actually see them change the shape of their throats to form the words and you can actually "see" the words they say. It's very interesting to see how the throats bulge and shrink and how the feathers fluff and part away from each other as they form words and sounds. Birds only open their beaks to make a sound louder, clearer, or sharper; all the major phonetical pronounciation is done in the syrinx.
Ravens, mynas, African grey parrots, budgerigars are all common birds to take reference from because they talk and say words really clearly and there is a lot of reference material out there.
Great point, I'm not sure if I've ever seen birds animated that way with their throat feathers moving like that but I know exactly what you're talking about, it's all about the syrinx!
@@kristym8641 Thanks!
@@kristym8641 I don't think I've ever seen an animated bird character talking that realistically either, _but now I want to!_ ^_^
When my budgies talk, they open their mouths to scream, and keep their mouths closed to sing
This will help me if I ever animate my vulture character, Rudgie
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The thing about "hitting accents" instead of going for 1:1 lip sync is even more important when you consider a lot of cartoons get dubbed for international releases! I never watched a single Disney film in the original english version growing up, so perfect lip sync would have probably distracted me a ton, haha.
Man i miss these kinda art style that disney had
Like with Zazu in The Lion King?
@@demonicchicken1121 yeah like those
Something I like when animators do is instead of putting "oo" shapes at the end of the beak, putting the "oo" at the fleshy part at the base of the beak, as well as other things that require lip movement. And then the rest is just hitting the accents. I like it more than putting the "oo" at the end because it makes their beak feel floppy.
It’s better than the animations I’ve seen of the beak talking with shows like Regular show and TucaxBertie. Like the movement is so smooth and beautiful without the beaks doing the odd O shapes. Surf’s Up also has some interesting beak animations that I don’t mind. Honestly
Love the animation in that movie.
aaron blaise is the master of coming up with simple, easy-to-remember, easy-to-practice solutions to problems that seem a lot more complicated
As a penguin lover, I absolutely love this. The lesson is very helpful for those who draw bird characters and I hope to one day use this to help me work on my penguin characters when I learn animation. Thank you so much Aaron 💜🐧👍🏻
I have a mainly bird based chimera, and every time I tried to animated him, it always ended up looking more draconic than bird. (I.e. broader than normal trying to get mouth shapes to look right.)
The occasional teeth for certain vowels and consonants didn't help . . .
Absolutely love how didactic you sound. Bought one of your how to draw human classes a while back and I really love how you explain things!
OMG I NEEDED THIS!! I gotta edit one of my Fursonas into an animation who happens to be a duck. I had NO IDEA how to animate his beak, but thanks to you, MY INSPIRATION HAS STRUCK!! Tysm for your wisdom, sir!
Omg a duck fursona sounds amazing
The animation is amazing! And the dialogue was hilarious! You can tell what their personalities are like just from those few seconds alone! I love it! 😍😍😍😍😍
Your animation and art never fails to make me feel a little happier.
What I like to do, depending on what an animal character says- is how the head moves. I like to move the head of the animal to match the way the lips of a human is supposed to move.
I love this, I mainly animate dinosaurs (usually feathered and/or ornithischian ones, they often have that beak-ish shtick!) and I actually like to think of them as muppets as a base, and then adding more refined lipsync for those who happen to have softer lips/snouts.
This is awesome. I’m just getting into animating myself and the tip about drawing mouth frames just ahead of dialogue is super insightful. Thanks for this!!
I LOVE THIS.
I’m going to school to study and work with animals, but I also love art. seeing the 2 together is amazing as well as the intention and knowledge that goes into what we see and hear on screen. it’s wayyyy more than just throwing lines and colors together. thank you for showing us this!
So, what you're saying is...bird mouths use anime logic.
That's what I got out of it.
This is really awesome,i am hit with a nostalgic punch,like this reminds me so much of the Rooster from Robin hood
0:56 - 0:59
Words cannot express how much I love this part
Thank you! Just what I needed, I've been figuring out how to move those hard and stable beaks into something more animative! I love birds just how they are and I started drawing birds when I was 4, now I'm animating them!
*Thank you so mutch for the video!!*
This is so great and helpful! I'm trying to learn how to animate visemes because they're a little hard for me to visualize but I'm glad you shared and demonstrated these cool "tricks" to use!!!
Thank you for your work!!!
I really love how the video start in black and white. its give me flim like feeling. The video content was very helpful
This is really helpful. I'm currently trying to learn animation on my own, when I have the time and your videos help a lot! I also really admire Richard Williams, and his stuff helps too. I appreciate these videos you put out for those who want to learn but don't have all the time in the world or money to do so!
I love birds and this video is so helpful! Will definitely remember this when I animate birds, although I'm a 3D animator myself, the same ideas should apply even in 3D.
This was really helpful! I hardly ever write human characters, animals are just a lot more fun for me, especially with all of the body language and diversity with different creatures. one of my projects has chickens, and while i have pet chickens, it's really hard to animate them talking, and while the birds with teeth and malleable beak works in some styles, im personally not a fan.
Awesome Aaron!
This is a masterpiece you should do more videos like this
Love your stuff!
This is super helpful!
Thanks so much Mr. Blaise! I was always kinda confused about this
What a coincidence, I was just thinking about animating My dnd character, who also happens to be a bird. And I got this in my recommendation.
This is so dope! Thanks for sharing Aaron
this is super adorable! oh! and it'll really help me with a Crow character I've been animating X3
2D animation is so beautiful
Thanks, so much Aaron you made this video at the perfect time for me. My final year project is underway, and my characters are birds! Thanks again.
Awesome as always Aaron! Thank you so much!
Eyy, you're helping me greatly with animations I'm working on! Thank you!!
I LOVE your animations sir! This is my favorite type of animation of all time!
Loved the thumbnail
ah this is so helpful!
Thank you so much for doing this video, I watched this on instagram and I was amazed how smooth it was
Omg you don’t know how much I needed this
Thankyou
Great video as always :)
This is fantastic. So much personality in this and very informative
that's really amazing, greetings from south borneo kalimantan.
100/💯 bravo
Awesome tutorial as always! I wish to be as great of an animator as you! :D
That penguin father(?) is just like me, if I were a mother.
Good thing I'm an aunt instead.
Imagine the lion and bear segment after one another *wheeze*
Disney: we need to hire you!
Aaron Blaise: yes
I know I'm super late, but this video was really helpful for animating my skua character's dialogue.
So glad you got something out of it!
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0:43 where’s that from
Omg this amazing! Thank you so much for explaining this! :D This is a much needed. ^-^
Really helpful
I wonder if anyone has ever tried to animate a parrot speaking, well, the way they actually do. It's really interesting; the two halfs -- halves? -- of the beak are able to move independently of each other, which I don't think is the case with most birds. Like I said, really fascinating.
Didn't the movie "Rio" do that?
I don't remember how accurately though
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Ah, right, I forgot about the Rio movies, but yeah, I don't know if those movies' animations were accurate, either.
Great video Nice job God bless!
I'm not an animator and prolly never will be, but dang this was interesting!
Hey Aaron you should try drawing a andalite sometime! There super awsome so is your art style!
I saw the penguin one on tik tok! I hope it was yours or otherwise someone else posted it
This Hand Drawn Disney-Esque Style
Penguin movie
You should become a Disney animator: if they still did 2D animation
He was lol
He worked on Mulan, brother bear and many others I don't recall right off the bat. This guy is a BIG DEAL
Ooooohhhhhhh
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I really want a talking pigeon, for some reason
So lip sync goes a few frames before to make it feel better?
Makes sense when light travel faster than sound.
Which animation program was used for this?
Man lip sync seems way easier on a bird. That’s awesome
*YOU* heard the sing-along songs.
one day you could make a DINOSAUR animation
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I wish I could even draw. 🥺😢
me watching this knowing i will never animate properly: mm yes interesting
What scene is that from
What movie is he animating?
Dont birds have a soft bottle jaw/beak or do some birds have a completely solid beak
I don't know what that puppet was Saying by i feel it was about my unfolded clothes.
Which art program do you use?
Can you draw an alligator? I want to draw but i don't know where to start.
0:24 where’s that from
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0:56 where’s that from
Is it glitched out/redacted for anyone else???
I have no idea what this is and how I found it. ._. Might be the algorithm again, but alright. :p
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1:21 where’s that from
@@robertbreschard3493 iam frm kerala, india
This is good. But why not go the Milt Kahl/Don Bluth route & bend the beak a bit more & give'm teeth like they would in their character designs? They're not biologically correct, but so what? It'll give'm even more personality. Why not try it & see if it makes a difference?
I have in the past. It all depends on the art direction and this is the extreme case where the directors wouldn’t want that. I’m trying to show that you can still get away with it.
For me it just looks way better when you keep the beak biologically correct. You can probably get away with teeth in something super cartoony or comedic, but in a story where the character designs and story are a bit more grounded it becomes weird.
I’m genuinely wondering if you’ve ever seen a beak drawn with teeth-? I’m not trying to be rude or anything, I merely find stuff like that super uncomfortable and unnerving to look at.. like a plush toy with sewn-in human teeth or something, it’s just- wrong in my head. I mean, how cartoony would it have to be to stop being so creepy looking, and -if you have any- could you send some animation examples from movies/etc with this trait?
@@Inno4138 - Plenty of Donald Duck cartoons had Donald's beak grinding or bearing his teeth. So did Daffy Duck, Jeremy the Crow from Secret of NIMH, Scuttle from Little Mermaid - just to name a small few.
It's not disturbing at all.
It's perfectly acceptable iwhen it comes to cartoons.
You are absolutely Eunice
Welp, furry art will be easier with chu
Thank you
second
Some of the scenes look like they are in a movie
Awesome! I've multiple birdies to handle, so sheesh this is beyond helpful. Painful process, beautiful product.
I LOVE THIS.
I’m going to school to study and work with animals, but I also love art. seeing the 2 together is amazing as well as the intention and knowledge that goes into what we see and hear on screen. it’s wayyyy more than just throwing lines and colors together. thank you for showing us this!