Animate characters with Auto Lip-Sync

Adobe Animate’s Auto Lip-Sync feature matches mouth poses to sound inflections – a quick and easy time-saver for animators.

Draw mouth shapes

Draw all the mouth shapes you need for your character.

Close up of vector artwork of an owl with its beak selected

Convert each one to a Graphic Symbol.

Convert to Symbol dialog box with Graphic selected in the Type menu and the cursor hovering over the OK button

Create a master mouth symbol

Auto Lip Sync references from this master mouth pose.

Create New Symbol dialog box with Graphic selected in the Type menu and the cursor hovering over the OK button while the frames in the top layer of the Timeline are selected

Drag each viseme to its own keyframe

Align each one so it’s centered on the stage.

Mouth poses need to be present on different keyframes of a single Graphic Symbol. Keeping each mouth pose within its own Graphic Symbol is a matter of choice, and may be useful for organizing the poses.

In the master mouth Symbol, consider adding frame labels to each keyframe for easy identification of mouth poses later on. The labels also appear in the lip-syncing dialog, and assist while mapping the visemes (shown in Step 5).