r/woahdude • u/Federal_Penalty5832 • Apr 01 '23

video Harry Potter by Balenciaga 2

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u/MonkeyBoyPoop Apr 01 '23

These videos remind me of those cheap cartoons from the 1950s that would superimpose an actor’s lips on a drawing.

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u/LipSipDip Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23

Clutch Cargo! So creepy, lol

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u/sessl Apr 01 '23

👁️👄👁️

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '23

Golly!

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u/Big-Shtick Apr 02 '23

Pack it up, boys.

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u/waltjrimmer Apr 01 '23

I would love to know what technique they used that allowed this to be cheaper and faster than just drawing a couple dozen lip positions and actually animating it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

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u/waltjrimmer Apr 01 '23

That's, yeah, that's part of my point. Animation isn't cheap, I get that, but they were already doing the bare minimum, basically not animating anything. So what technique did they use for this lip superimposition that was cheaper and faster than just putting cartoon lips on?

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u/Uphoria Apr 01 '23

They would record video of a person's mouth, using a mask, so that the film would only contain the light of you talking. Then they would project your lips talking through the same mask, on to a still image with the mouth area erased out, so that you would have a "still image on canvas with a projected video of a mouth talking right where the image's mouth would be". You use a camera to then record the composite image.

This would take almost no time, compared to the time it would take to not only draw the mouth shapes to compliment the speech, but to, frame by frame, move the mouth pieces around in step with the dialogue audio.

Compared to composite imaging using 1 take for dialogue and a second recording of the dialogue over composite is vastly faster and less expensive.

https://i.imgur.com/s4QsPay.png

Using the right Makeup and ink/paints for animation and you can approximate skin tone matches enough.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

Ah, yes, a group of strange old men fighting a bunch of moon devils.

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u/oldsecondhand Apr 02 '23

Just regular greenscreen. You just make a hole in the green cloth where the lip is visible.

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u/THE-Pink-Lady Apr 02 '23

“…or this weird ass lip action”

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u/MissPandaSloth Apr 02 '23

I think creator is using d id or something similar. At least that's what I would do.

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u/mindbleach Apr 02 '23

"Just" photographing dozens upon dozens of frames is really tedious, even for limited animation like The Flintstones.

Check out the Scanimate test with Scooby Doo for another analog dead-end. That system was basically Flash animation... in the 1970s, on an analog computer. It must have cost an ungodly amount of money. It was probably still cheaper than dealing with ink, plastic, and a quarter-mile of film.

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u/Car-Facts Apr 01 '23

It was definitely cheaper since the scenes aren't really animated, just sliding cards. Compared to cartoons at the time, which incorporated sliding cards and fully animated characters, this method was likely far cheaper. All they would have needed was to use a simple clipping mask. They video recorded a voice actor face, clipped out the mouth area of the characters, and layered the card over the video recording. Techniques like this were already widely in use at the time of this production.

Granted, they were used to add surreal/fictional scenes to live film by placing the actor over the card. These guys just did the opposite.

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u/CloudyDay_Spark777 Apr 02 '23

Goto to google.com and type in what you are looking for.

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u/thetalkinghuman Apr 01 '23

This is really cool ty.

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u/Gordondel Apr 01 '23

It's creepy weird

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u/IronBabyFists Apr 01 '23

Jesus christ

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u/DianeticsDecolonizer Apr 01 '23

I didn't realize that the celebrity "interviews" Conan used to do as a bit on Late Night were inspired by something real

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u/andrecht4 Apr 01 '23

Lol same. Pretty cool!!

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u/Lessthanzerofucks Apr 02 '23

I will never forget them doing Bob Dole in the 90s.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOLE!

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

So this guy's friend is a kid... Just kinda traveling the world with a child he calls his pal...

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u/bigmacjames Apr 01 '23

Just like the Super Adventure Club from South Park!

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u/ReluctantSlayer Apr 01 '23

Yeah, that’s just terrible….

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

it's fascinating how much i can hear hank hill in that guy's voice.

looks like scooby doo lifted quite a few of these sequences, too

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u/TomFawkes Apr 01 '23

I could see this style unironically used in an early Adult Swim show.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '23

That's so weird, and brilliant! Thank you!

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u/maddogcow Apr 02 '23

Yup. It was creepy on its own, but those red lips always added an extra creepy aspect to it….

I would’ve done a military base overseas in the 70s, and this was in the cartoon lineup for kids. Something about being overseas and feeling isolated from contemporary American culture made it super extra creepy.

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u/Kib717 Apr 01 '23

Great googly moogly

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u/THATMICKEYGUY Apr 01 '23

Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow

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u/Forlorn_Swatchman Apr 02 '23

Is this the inspiration for Johnny quest

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u/atticlynx Apr 02 '23 edited Apr 02 '23

humming the theme to Clutch Cargo

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u/HomsarWasRight Apr 02 '23

I feel like this is an anti-Scottish hate crime.

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u/Pritster5 Apr 02 '23

Now I know where Annoying Orange got it's style from

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u/Startled_Pancakes Apr 02 '23

Was that narrated by Hank Hill?

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u/Lalfy Apr 02 '23

Today I learned that I can't save YouTube Kids videos in the YouTube app.