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June 5

Lip syncing for animations

How are the up and down jaw- or mouth-movements of cartoon characters made to look convincingly as if they were talking the audio dialogue? I dimly remember long ago when this was not done very well in cartoons, now it is done much better. Is there some algorithmn that determines this, such as opening the mouth in proportion to volume? It must be a headache for the animator to exactly coordinate the mouth position with the spoken dialogue, unless some automatic way of doing it has been developed. Am I right in guessing that, when making an animation such as The Simpsons, the audio is recorded first, and then the visual animation is fitted to the audio track? 92.15.0.59 (talk) 13:03, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure what comes first, the voice or the animation but you may be interested in starting at Computer-generated imagery and going from there. In some films, with such characters as Jar Jar Binks and Gollum, the real life actor playing those parts will have things put onto their face and the natural movements of their face is used to animate the character. The computer is able to pick out those bits on their face (I can't find the name for them right now) and use their positions to create the character. Dismas|^(talk) 23:32, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's right; the voiceover is always recorded first, and the animator animates to the voiceover. See Lip sync (and skip past the parts about live performers lip synching). Comet Tuttle (talk) 16:33, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Matt Morgan (comedian)

Anyone care to take a stab at [1] and alert the IP who asked the question? NW (Talk) 15:56, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

house

hey i was watching house and it llooks like Jennifer Morrison (Cameron) got written out. Is she out for good then? 76.230.210.252 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:50, 5 June 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Have you read Allison Cameron? Gabbe (talk) 18:14, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

She comes back for the episode Lockdown (House). It seems fairly permanent that she was gone, but who knows? SmokingNewton _{(MESSAGE ME)} 20:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is this song called?

http://www.roomp3.com/mp3-31858-Club_Scene-Club.html --Drogonov 17:13, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you know what the dialogue is from? What show/movie? That could help with identification. Dismas|^(talk) 17:34, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah it's from Hitman (2007 film) around 59 minutes. Though I've already looked at transcripts and they don't mention it. --Drogonov 18:16, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Science fiction film I saw when I was younger

I once saw a science fiction film a long time ago, and I want to know what it was called. My remembrance of the plot is sketchy but I do remember it going kind of like this: There's a young boy who constantly fights with his younger brother. One day he gets abducted by an alien craft and dropped back 13 years into the future. He has not aged, but his brother has, and refers to him as his 'big little brother'. They give this kid a brain scan and as they do the alien spaceship is drawn up on the sheet marking out his brainwaves. There's some other stuff that goes on...I also remember the alien spaceship being sentient with an eye that stretches down from the ceiling, and it also adopts this kid's personality. I also remember the kid finds this two-inch-tall creature that squeaks, and when he returns to his own time at the end of the film, he shows his brother the little thing. If anyone could answer, that'd be great.--Editor510 ^{drop us a line, mate} 22:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Flight of the Navigator, probably. Algebraist 22:16, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]