On: I made a talking emoji using regular emojis and JavaScript

[k__]

I once read lipreading doesn't work very reliable, even for very skilled lipreaders.

Maybe that's why most animation studios don't bother.

[_nalply → k__]

Some do bother, because even some hearing people can tell the mouth movements are off. This adds to the authenticity of a movie.

[k__ → _nalply]

I see, didn't think of that :)

[kuschku → k__]

> Maybe that's why most animation studios don't bother.

Dubs. 90% of your viewers will see it in a foreign language, dubbed, where all your lipsyncing effort is useless anyway.

In fact, lipsyncing ut to english makes it look worse in the dub than having random nonsense movements.

[sametmax → kuschku]

It may be true now, as modern block buster lipsync is atrocious (at least in France). But 20 years ago people cared a lot about it.

I remember distinctly this wonderful line from the 5th element:

- Are you classified as human?

- Negative. I'm a meat Popsicle!

Which they translated to french into:

- ...?

- Negatif. Je suis une mite en pull over !

Which has not relation at all to the initial line, and literally translateds mean "I'm a moth wearing a sweater".

But it's equally nonsensical, definitely as funny, and the beautiful thing is, the lipsync is near perfect.

However it's a lot of work, requires very talented people to achieve, and is mostly useless in the eyes of the right owners: money will come anyway if the movie is average, so why bother making it better ?

[maury91 → kuschku]

That's false, I'm from Italy and our dubbing is made with big effort, and lips syncing is an important part, so important that sometimes they don't use literal translation, so they can choose words that have a similar pronunciation to the English ones and the lips look in sync

[kuschku → maury91]

I’m from Germany, and there’s a lot of effort spent on lip syncing, but it’s not even close to what you get with the native language.

As child (due to deafness until I was almost 5) I relied a lot on lip reading, and it was very noticeable if something was dubbed.

[icebraining → maury91]

Same here, but that's a reverse process (syncing the script to the animation, rather than the animation to the script).