The short answer is yes. The long answer is the rest of this blog post.
Steve and I worked diligently on crafting the mouth animations for scene one until we got about halfway done and came up with not one but TWO brilliant ideas that completely set us off track. While implementing our original idea (which we’ll call Mouth Animation Idea #1), we realized that the animation looked like a flapping sock puppet. Sooooo
Mouth Animation Idea #2:
What if we used a black sock puppet to BE the mouths? Wait, that might be too hard. What if we used a piece of foam board leftover from set creation and put it on the end of a stick that may or may not be bamboo. Oh, and hang a green folder over it.
Mouth Animation Idea #3:
Ok, so that sort of worked. What if we actually did the puppet idea? It’d probably be way better then, right???
So maybe neither of these systems is better than using static mouth images and animating them. We are weirdly inspired to make a cell shaded puppet show though.
-Mike