MidnightLightning
01-29-2010, 03:53 PM
For displaying typography or practicing your typing, the well known mnemonic of "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy brown dog" hits all the letters in the English language. Is there something similar for exercising all the phonemes a talking character would have to move through? I started pondering this question as I was testing out my lip/mouth rig, and made sure that it could account for the closed-mouth 'W' in "wagon", as well as the lips-behind-the-front-teeth 'F', and lips-out-in-front 'CH'. Those are the three I've been testing; are there others that you check to ensure your facial rig will perform well when you actually go to animate? Any words/short phrases that combine 'W', 'F', 'CH', and others into a simple "if your character can look like they're saying ___, they can look like they're saying anything" (of course excluding emotion and expression positions like smiling/frowning) check?