High density singing faces

[Npbauman]

I?m looking to start my first singing faces props for Halloween. I?d like to have 3 or 4 faces. Perhaps a couple pumpkins and a skull. However, I?ve never been impressed with prebuilt pixel cutouts (either pixel positions seem to far spread or there are too few mouth positions to create a high quality singing mouth). I?m curious to do my own so I may have a higher density of pixels and more options for mouth positions. Where may I find mouth designs/shapes such that I have the most option for mouth positions to create the most realistic singing. It would be helpful if the design also had the mouth positions outlined as well.

[angus40]

For premium mouth movement and positions either a matrix or p5 panels is my suggestion .
I do the lip sync and eye movement in a video editor to simplify the process.

[RichieNorthcott]

You could use LED 'neon' strip perhaps rather than pixels - but that's normally only single colour which may not be such an issue for a singing face. You could use an DMX -> dc PWM controller, you could probably get away with 10->20 channels depending on how you configure it. I thought about this but opted for pixels in the end.

[ShadowLight8]

I built a large singing mouth that has most of the phoneme shapes and uses WS2811 LED neon strips so I can do more with it. You can see it in my videos in my signature.