Test: Blender 2.8 for 2D Animation Time Offset Modifier Mouth Rig
Testing the Time Offset Modifier for switching mouth drawings independent from the main timeline.
The character is only for demonstration purposes
Steps:
make all mouth shapes for every frame
add a Time Offset Modifier
set the Frame Scale to 0.001
with the Frame Offset Value you can switch between all states
i mapped the value via a driver to an empty object
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