Batman Lip Sync in Blender Grease Pencil Part 1: Mouth Substitutions with the Time Offset Modifier

In part 1 of this video series, I’ll show you how to set up the Time Offset Modifier in Blender Grease Pencil so you can lip sync your animations through mouth substitutions (also called mouth swaps). This process can also be applied to various body parts, such as eyes, eyebrows, hands, and feet. Toon Boom Harmony offers a great workflow for this type of process, so I wanted to try to accomplish something similar in Blender Grease Pencil.

In the second video, I’ll show you how to create drivers so you can animate the mouth by selecting drawings from a mouth chart onscreen. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/JqCerxLe5qg

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0:00 – Intro

0:26 – Setting up the Blender Grease Pencil scene

0:32 – Working with layers in Blender Grease Pencil

1:01 – Adding a mouth chart in Blender Grease Pencil

1:37 – Creating Batman in Blender Grease Pencil to use for the lip syncing example

2:33 – Drawing the mouths in Blender Grease Pencil for lip syncing

4:49 – Adding the Time Offset Modifier to the mouth keyframes in Blender Grease Pencil

5:39 – Adding audio to Blender Grease Pencil for lip syncing

6:00 – Lip syncing the character’s mouths to the audio in Blender Grease Pencil

8:46 – Outro