How I animated Lil Yachty's mouth in After Effects

Name: How I animated Lil Yachty's mouth in After Effects
Uploaded: 2024-10-17T15:30:14+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Ryan Maloney
Description: In this short tutorial, Ryan Maloney demonstrates his workflow for animating Lil Yachty's mouth in the "Way More Fun" music video using Adobe After…

17 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this short tutorial, Ryan Maloney demonstrates his workflow for animating Lil Yachty's mouth in the "Way More Fun" music video using Adobe After Effects. He explains that he builds the mouth by stacking separate layers for lips, teeth, and gums, then creates a joystick control layer that drives the mouth movement. By adding keyframes to the joystick’s position along the timeline, he synchronizes the mouth’s motion with the music, achieving a realistic lip‑sync effect.

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Here's a look at how I animated Lil Yachty's mouth for the "Way More Fun" music video. I designed the mouth using joysticks and sliders in After Effects. I have lips covering the teeth and the gums, and the way I get the mouth to move is to just move this layer. It's a joystick. Then I create keyframes along the timeline and move the position of that joystick to make the mouth move along with the music. It ends up looking like this.