What is the word for this?

[Xath]

This is a bit random, but everyone I've asked couldn't tell me.

What is the word for the process of superimposing voice and facial movements onto a still picture?

 

[Ambrus]

This is a bit random, but everyone I've asked couldn't tell me.

What is the word for the process of superimposing voice and facial movements onto a still picture?

I'm not certain I understand your question though I believe you're reffering to rotoscoping.

 

[Ranes]

Ambrus, I think you are mistaken. My understanding is that rotoscoping is a technique whereby live action footage is painted over, in order to achieve animation. Ralph Bakshi's animated lord of the rings used the technique extensively. Another example is in The Empire Strikes Back. When Luke Skywalker first surveys his surroundings, having landed on Dagobah/Degobah - Yoda's home planet I can't remember the spelling of - a fantastical bird swoops through the scene. A real bird was released on the set and allowed to fly across it. The animators then went over the footage, creating their extra-terrestrial avian, fame by frame, matting out the real bird.

Not that this helps you, Xath, although, like Ambrus, I am a little confused by the wording of your question. 'Superimposing facial movement onto a still picture' would mean the picture wasn't still any more. It simply sounds like animation. I'm sure that's not what you're looking for, especially as you mention vocal effects as well. If there is a single word to describe the combination of these things, I am unaware of it. I used to be quite the SPFX buff, but that was in the days when motion control was a revolutionary technique and quad-optical printing was a thing of the future. So, sorry I can't help but I'd be interested to know the term you're looking for. Come back and share, if you find the answer elsewhere.

 

[ConnorSB]

dubbing?

 

[Richards]

I think he's talking about those cartoons like "Clutch Cargo", where they would draw faces without mouths, and then superimpose an actor's mouth saying the lines that the character was saying. The cartoon characters would therefore always stand really still while talking.

Sadly, I have no idea what the process is called, but they used to CREEP ME OUT as a kid.

Johnathan

 

[Tewligan]

Clutch Cargonization.

 

[Torm]

Satiric "commedia dell'arte" is the closest I can come up with by Googling, but that's a mouthful, and still really doesn't adequately describe the whole thing. I assume you're talking about where they take pictures of famous people, cut out the mouth (or superimpose someone else's with trick photography), and make "them" say whatever they want?

 

[Hypersmurf]

Sadly, I have no idea what the process is called, but they used to CREEP ME OUT as a kid.

"Clutch Cargo" and "Space Angel" both used the technique known as Synchro-Vox.

-Hyp.

 

[Umbran]

Satiric "commedia dell'arte" is the closest I can come up with by Googling...

Um, commedia dell 'arte is a Renaissance form of Italian improv comedy theatre.

 

[Xath]

Budwieser used to run this site where you could upload a picture of someone's face, and then edit it so it would appear that the mouth was moving. Then you would type in text which a computer voice would read.

Kind of like that Ding Fries are Done short.

http://www.americanangst.com/dingfries.html

But I can't remember what the process is called, and I lost the link to that budwieser thing. So I need the word so I can look it up again.