For another class, I had asked my friend, Kendall Ota, to film a short clip of her dissing my character and mocking our friendship, and she happily obliged. I decided to use this audio track–which I think is quite funny–as inspiration for this lip-synch video, which is very reminiscent of a catty high school drama scene. In creating this animation, I first designed the cartoon image of Kendall, and animated her blinks, her mouth movements, and her eyebrow movements on Adobe Animate. I then imported a background from Procreate.
During this process, I had the most amount of fun animating her facial expressions, and the way that her eyebrows raised and narrowed based on what she was saying. I exaggerated her movements, playing up the “mean girl” high school trope. My initial idea for this project was to animate a scene from the iconic 2004 film, Mean Girls, and this scene is actually heavily influenced by the scene where Regina George demonstrates her two-faced nature by complimenting another girl’s skirt to her face, but immediately insulting her as soon as she is out of earshot.
