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Dialogue.

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  May 20, 2026·Genre

  Animated NPC dialogue portraits in 2D RPGs

  Animated NPC dialogue portraits in 2D RPGs. Step by step, with the gotchas solo devs hit at 2 AM and the fixes that survive the second build.

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  May 10, 2026·Tutorial

  The 2D dialogue-animation anatomy: faces that talk

  The 2D dialogue-animation anatomy: faces that talk. A working overview for indie 2D devs — the real moves, the real numbers, no Adobe-suite buzzwords.

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  May 6, 2026·Tutorial

  Lip sync and dialogue animation for 2D characters

  Five mouth shapes, a phoneme map, and a 60fps audio waveform. Lip sync that matches the line takes longer to read about than to actually do.