How come they don't put out episodes of like Invincible, Simpsons, or whatever doing a side by side of the actor speaking into the microphone while watching what happens the cartoon?

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• swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Generally, because that’s not how cartoons are vouced.

  However, table reads at comic conventions are a popular thing.

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• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They record the audio, then match the animation to the voices.

  They don’t watch the animation and try to match the voices, that only happens for a dub.

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  • Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, when they’re recording the audio, they’re usually not just reading through the whole script in one go

    They’re probably doing multiple takes of most of the lines, changing little things until they get the take that feels right

    So you’d end up with a bunch of choppy little cuts instead of a nice long continuous shot of the VA doing their thing in a recording booth like OP is probably imagining

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because it would have more jump cuts then a Pitbull music video.

  They do sometimes show clips of the VA doing work on ‘the making of X specials’

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because it would put an incredible strain on the animators.

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• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure there are already some examples of that on YT, etc, but I don’t really see why anybody would want to see a whole cartoon like that. Seems like it would get tiresome and distracting, pretty fast.

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• watson387@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s stuff you used to see on the special features of DVDs and laserdiscs, etc. I agree you see much of that anymore.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then it ceases to be animation and they have to pay union rates.

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Probably suspense of disbelief, or whatever it is. That, and it’s a pretty meta things that would probably work best in a comedy cartoon.

  I know the show Chowder had an episode where they “ran out of budget for the animation” and did a pretty short gag where it switched over to the VA’s and how they had to fundraise to get back to their animated forms. But I don’t know many other shows that could or even did that type of meta humor.

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