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96-405: Eddsworld is a British 2D Flash-Animated web series created by Edd Gould . Since its premiere on 21 December 2004, the series has been published through Newgrounds , DeviantArt , YouTube , Albino Blacksheep , Tumblr , SheezyArt, and an official website. Following Gould's death on 25 March 2012, Thomas Ridgewell (the former voice actor of Tom) became the series' new showrunner, launching

192-528: A New York Times article claimed that " Bananarama 's recent concert at the Palladium", the "first song had a big beat, layered vocal harmonies and a dance move for every line of lyrics", but "the drum kit was untouched until five songs into the set, or that the backup vocals (and, it seemed, some of the lead vocals as well-a hybrid lead performance) were on tape along with the beat". The article also claims that "British band Depeche Mode , ...adds vocals and

288-554: A lip dub video) have also been popular as viral videos on the internet. An early example, " Numa Numa ", a video recorded by Gary Brolsma of him dancing and lip syncing to the song " Dragostea din Tei ", was ranked in 2007 by The Viral Factory as the second most-viewed viral video of all time behind the Star Wars Kid . Various television competition programs have been built around lip sync performances, such as Puttin' on

384-513: A series . An Adobe Flash animation is distinguished from a Webcomic , which is a comic strip distributed via the Web, rather than an animated cartoon. The first prominent use of the Adobe Flash animation format was by The Ren & Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi . On October 15, 1997, he launched The Goddamn George Liquor Program , the first cartoon series produced specifically for

480-726: A "looping" session after the filming. Another manifestation of lip syncing is the art of making an animated character appear to speak in a prerecorded track of dialogue . The lip sync technique to make an animated character appear to speak involves figuring out the timings of the speech (breakdown) as well as the actual animating of the lips/mouth to match the dialogue track. The earliest examples of lip sync in animation were attempted by Max Fleischer in his 1926 short My Old Kentucky Home . The technique continues to this day, with animated films and television shows such as Shrek , Lilo & Stitch , and The Simpsons using lip syncing to make their artificial characters talk. Lip syncing

576-441: A backing track. It is also possible that fans who are watching a live performance on a large-screen video display, either in the venue or remotely as in a live broadcast, are actually seeing a real lip sync timing error. These can be created by the video signal processing delay that occurs in the electronic video signal path between the on stage camera and the large screen displays. This lip sync error can cause those fans to perceive

672-463: A concert ticket." Some singers habitually lip sync during live performances, both concert and televised, over pre-recorded music and mimed backing vocals; this is known as singing over playback. Some artists switch between live singing and lip syncing during a performance, particularly during songs that require them to hit particularly high or low notes. Lip syncing these notes ensures that the performer will not be out of tune or strain their voice. Once

768-420: A couple who never physically meet, and communicated solely via lip syncing. The couple became a major cultural phenomenon in the country, and appeared on-stage for the first time in an October 2015 concert special, Tamang Panahon . A hashtag associated with the special received 41 million posts within 24 hours on Twitter , beating a global record previously set during Brazil and Germany's semi-final match at

864-524: A crowdfunding campaign to continue the show titled Eddsworld: Legacy . Preceding the release of Eddsworld: Legacy 's final episode, Ridgewell announced he was leaving the show and handing control of the series to Matthew Hargreaves (voice actor of Matt) and Gould's family. To this day, Hargreaves remains as the last original member of the foursome working on the series. On 1 January 2017, the show's website went back online with new Eddsworld comics written and illustrated by Matt Hargreaves. On 1 August 2020,

960-540: A few keyboard lines to [a] taped backup [track when they perform] onstage". In 1989, during a Milli Vanilli performance recorded by MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Bristol, Connecticut , what sounded to be a pre-recorded track of the group's song "Girl You Know It's True" jammed and began to skip, repeating the partial line "Girl, you know it's..." over and over. Due to rising public questions regarding

1056-469: A film clip". She indicated that "The NSW Government would be happy to look at options, such as a disclaimer on a ticket which would warn consumers a performance is completely pre-recorded." A writer on ethics calls lip syncing an "affront to all legitimate live performers who risk lyric mistakes and cracking voices to give an authentic performance". The author argues that lip syncing in live concerts will "...destroy our ability to enjoy great live performances

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1152-476: A flood of Adobe Flash-based television animation. Several recording companies experimented with releasing animated music videos to promote their artists' releases online, including Madonna , Beastie Boys and Tenacious D ; however, none became the hit that allowed for the expansion of Flash animated music videos. Adam Sandler and Tim Burton , among others, released original Internet-only animated works, but were not able to devise successful financial models and

1248-487: A house somewhere in London : Edd, an artist obsessed with Coca-Cola and telling puns; Tom, a jaded nihilist and alcoholic who lacks visible eyeballs (it is constantly debated by the fandom whether he has no eyes, or if they are just completely black); Matt, a dim-witted narcissist ; and (prior to his departure) Tord, a trigger-happy Norwegian addicted to hentai , a gun expert, and an interested communist . The series

1344-539: A lip synced performance of " Wasted Years " where the band blatantly swapped instruments mid-song, and at one point had three members "playing" the drums at the same time. After the Milli Vanilli vocal miming scandal, it "...forever embedded skepticism into the minds (and ears) of the listener." In the fallout of this miming controversy, MTV's Unplugged series was launched, "a showcase for artists wanting to prove they were more than just studio creations". As

1440-555: A new short titled "Fan Service 2" was released to kick off a new era of the show called Eddsworld Beyond , with Hargreaves as showrunner. Previously drawn and animated entirely by Gould, the Legacy and Beyond eras of the series employ a team of artists from around the world. As of February 2023, the Eddsworld YouTube channel has more than 4 million subscribers. At the time of Gould's death, his YouTube channel had

1536-430: A recurring challenge, particularly to eliminate contestants. Mobile apps such as Dubsmash and TikTok (which acquired and shut down Musical.ly in 2017), which allow users to record their own lip sync videos to pre-existing audio and song clips for sharing on social networking services or an internal platform, have also been popular. In 2015, Maine Mendoza — a Filipino content creator who had been nicknamed

1632-467: A running time of nearly 80 minutes. Although Sony Pictures decided not to release the film, it was eventually released on DVD by Lionsgate . In 2000, another major milestone occurred in the world of animation when the first broadcast-quality Adobe Flash animation aired on television. Dice Raw's music video "Thin Line between Raw and Jiggy" appeared on the big screen at Resfest 2000, on television via BET, and

1728-594: A somewhat clean graphic appearance. Some hallmarks of poorly produced Adobe Flash animation are jerky natural movements (seen in walk-cycles and gestures), auto-tweened character movements, lip-sync without interpolation and abrupt changes from front to profile view. Adobe Flash animations are typically distributed by way of the World Wide Web , in which case they are often referred to as Internet cartoons , online cartoons , or web cartoons . Web Adobe Flash animations may be interactive and are often created in

1824-410: A vocal effect that can be achieved only in the recording studio (e.g., Cher 's Believe , which used an Auto-Tune effects processing on her voice ); to improve performance during choreographed live dance numbers that incorporate vocals; to misattribute vocals entirely (e.g., Milli Vanilli , a band which lip synced to recordings made by other singers), or to cover deficiencies in live performance. It

1920-416: Is also commonly used in drag shows . Sometimes lip sync performances are forced on performers by television producers to shorten the guest appearances of celebrities, as it requires less time for rehearsals and hugely simplifies the process of sound mixing, or to eliminate the risk of vocal errors. Some artists lip sync because they are not confident singing live and want to avoid singing out of tune. Because

2016-499: Is also used in comedies such as This Hour Has 22 Minutes and political satire, changing totally or just partially the original wording. It has been used in conjunction with translation of films from one language to another, for example, Spirited Away . Lip syncing can be a very difficult issue in translating foreign works to a domestic release, as a simple translation of the lines often leaves overrun or underrun of high dialog to mouth movements. Quality film dubbing requires that

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2112-612: Is an animation that is created with the Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional ) platform or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. The term Adobe Flash animation refers to both the file format and the medium in which the animation is produced. Adobe Flash animation has enjoyed mainstream popularity since the mid-2000s, with many Adobe Flash-animated television series, television commercials, and award-winning online shorts being produced since then. In

2208-400: Is an example of this; he performed complex dance routines while lip syncing and live singing. His performance on the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (1983) changed the scope of live stage show. Ian Inglis, author of Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time (2006) notes the fact that "Jackson lip-synced 'Billie Jean' is, in itself, not extraordinary, but

2304-457: Is enjoying considerable popularity in major animation studios around the world, as animators take advantage of the software's ability to organize a large number of assets (such as characters, scenes, movements, and props) for later re-use. Because Adobe Animate files are in vector file format, they can be used to transfer animation to 35 mm film without any compromise in image quality. In 2003, Big Idea Entertainment used Animate (back when it

2400-435: Is generally episodic, and typically has little, if any, continuity between episodes. This results in many episodes featuring the characters dying, and then appearing in the next episode as if nothing happened. The protagonists of Eddsworld are exaggerated parodies of series creator Edd Gould and his friends. Flash animation Adobe Flash animation (formerly Macromedia Flash animation and FutureSplash animation )

2496-653: Is generated through the sound reinforcement system in a live performance or via television, computer, cinema speakers , or other forms of audio output. The term can refer to any of a number of different techniques and processes, in the context of live performances and audiovisual recordings. In film production , lip syncing is often part of the post-production phase. Dubbing foreign-language films and making animated characters appear to speak both require elaborate lip syncing. Many video games make extensive use of lip-synced sound files to create an immersive environment in which on-screen characters appear to be speaking. In

2592-626: Is not the same thing as miming)". Teenage viral video star Keenan Cahill openly lip syncs popular songs on his YouTube channel. His popularity has increased as he included guests such as rapper 50 Cent in November 2010 and David Guetta in January 2011, sending him to be one of the most popular channels on YouTube in January 2011. The Beatles ran foul of the contemporaneous British law against miming on television in 1967 with their lip synced promo clip to their song Hello, Goodbye . On

2688-408: Is still on. On the parts they're not confident on or if the performance is physically demanding, the artist will sing quieter, and more of the performance [backing] track vocals can be heard." There are "very few artists who [...] completely lip-sync" while a backing track is playing with "full lead vocals", a practice done due to "weather conditions, technical issues, or sickness." Lip syncing where

2784-495: Is that after 2020, animators will instead share their animations in either video, HTML5, or WebGL format. On June 16, 2020, as part of Adobe's 'Evolving Brand Identity', Adobe Animate unveiled a complete redesign of its logo in which for the first time in almost 20 years, the main color was changed from Red to Purple, ending any association of Flash entirely. While the creation of animation using Adobe Animate can be much easier and less expensive than traditional animation techniques,

2880-1327: Is the technique used when animated characters speak, and lip syncing is essential when films are dubbed into other languages. In many musical films , actors sang their own songs beforehand in a recording session and lip synced during filming, but many also lip synced to playback singers , voices other than their own. Rex Harrison was the exception in My Fair Lady . Marni Nixon sang for Deborah Kerr in The King and I and for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady , Annette Warren for Ava Gardner in Show Boat , Robert McFerrin for Sidney Poitier in Porgy and Bess , Betty Wand for Leslie Caron in Gigi , Lisa Kirk for Rosalind Russell in Gypsy , and Bill Lee for Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music . Some pre-overdubbed performances have survived, such as Hepburn's original My Fair Lady vocals (included in documentaries related to

2976-413: Is true of countries in which the local language is not spoken widely enough to make the expensive dubbing commercially viable (in other words, there is not enough market for it). However, other countries with a large-enough population dub all foreign films into their national language cinematic release. Dubbing is preferred by some because it allows the viewer to focus on the on-screen action, without reading

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3072-575: The Austin American-Statesman commented "[i]t seemed unlikely that anyone—even a prized member of the First Family of Soul Music —could dance like she did for 90 minutes and still provide the sort of powerful vocals that the '90s super concerts are expected to achieve." The music video for Electrasy 's 1998 single " Morning Afterglow " featured lead singer Alisdair McKinnell lip syncing the entire song backwards. This allowed

3168-567: The 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony , the song " Ode to the Motherland " appeared to be sung by Lin Miaoke at the ceremony, but it emerged that she mimed her performance to a recording by another girl, Yang Peiyi , who actually won the audition. It was a last-minute decision to use lip syncing, following a Politburo member's objection to Yang's physical appearance. International Olympic Committee executive director Gilbert Felli defended

3264-511: The 2014 FIFA World Cup . In the Australian state of New South Wales , the government is considering new laws that would require pop singers to print disclaimers on tickets "to alert fans if [the singers] intend on miming throughout their shows". Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge stated that "Let's be clear – live means live." Minister Judge stated that "If you are spending up to $ 200 [on concert tickets], I think you deserve better than

3360-1257: The BBC Three show Monkey Dust , the Channel Four show Modern Toss , Yin Yang Yo! , Alejo & Valentina , Angry Birds Toons , Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show , Jake and the Never Land Pirates , The Mr. Men Show , The Lion Guard , My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic on The Hub (however, this show uses a heavily modified version of Flash 8), Cinemax 's Eli's Dirty Jokes , Queer Duck from Showtime , The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show on Netflix , ToddWorld on Discovery Kids, Smiling Friends on Adult Swim and Shorties Watching Shorties on Comedy Central . Other TV shows, such as Home Movies , Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law and Ballmastrz: 9009 , broadcast on Cartoon Network 's Adult Swim programming block, switched to Adobe Flash Professional from other animation technology and on Disney XD with Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil . Many animation film festivals responded to

3456-465: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade , which features popular singers lip syncing while riding floats . Sometimes lip syncing is incorrectly identified by fans sitting in the back of a stadium because of the time it takes sound to carry over distance. Viewers might, for example, see a drummer hit a kit before they actually hear the sound. The delay can be mistaken for poor synchronization of miming artists and

3552-453: The music industry , lip syncing is used by singers for music videos , television and film appearances and some types of live performances. Lip syncing by singers can be controversial to fans attending concert performances who expect to view a live performance. Lip sync is considered a form of miming . It can be used to make it appear as though actors have substantial singing ability (e.g., The Partridge Family television show), to simulate

3648-456: The "Live Means Live" campaign. "Live Means Live" was launched by songwriter/composer David Mindel . When a band displays the "Live Means Live" logo, the audience knows, "there's no Auto-Tune , nothing that isn't 100 per cent live" in the show, and there are no backing tracks. In film production , lip syncing is often part of the post-production phase. Most film today contains scenes where the dialogue has been re-recorded afterwards; lip syncing

3744-462: The "Queen of Dubsmash" — became a cast member of the Filipino variety show Eat Bulaga! She appeared in a recurring sketch as a character named Yaya Dub , whose dialogue consisted exclusively of lip synced audio. Her spontaneous reactions to fellow cast member Alden Richards during a remote broadcast resulted in the creation of an on-air couple known as AlDub , in which the two were portrayed as

3840-465: The .swf format. Among these are Vyond , Toon Boom , Xara Photo & Graphic Designer , Serif DrawPlus , Toufee, Express Animator, CelAction 2D and Moho . These front-ends often provide additional support for creating cartoons, especially with tools more tailored to traditionally trained animators, as well as additional rigging for characters, which can speed up character animation considerably. Other sources Lip-sync Audio for lip syncing

3936-578: The 1960s, vocals and instrumentals were all (with a few notable exceptions on American Bandstand) synced to pre-recorded music. Since the creation of MTV in the 1980s, many artists have focused on visual effects, rather than singing, for their live shows. Artists often lip sync during strenuous dance numbers in both live and recorded performances. Artists often lip sync during strenuous dance numbers in both live and recorded performances, due to lung capacity being needed for physical activity (both at once would require incredibly trained lungs). Michael Jackson

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4032-689: The 1990s; the NFL has confirmed this as standard practice. In January 1998, singer-songwriter Jewel was criticised for lip syncing the American national anthem at the opening of the Super Bowl XXXII to a digitally-recorded track of her own voice. This was noticeable as the singer missed her cue, and thus, did not sing the first few words of the song. Super Bowl producers have since admitted that they attempt to have all performers pre-record their vocals. Some Olympics events have used lip syncing. In

4128-847: The 1996 VHS release of The Beatles Anthology ) was not released on home video up until appearing as a bonus feature on the 2012 DVD release of Magical Mystery Tour . Indian cinema relies heavily on lip syncing. Lip syncing by a playback singer is almost exclusively used in Indian cinema, where actors perform song and dance sequences in movies while lip syncing to the song that is sung by playback singers. The playback singers are officially recognised and have gained much fame in their careers. Some notables among them are Lata Mangeshkar , Kishore Kumar , Muhammad Rafi , Asha Bhosle , Sonu Nigam , Shreya Ghoshal , and many more. In an article about Katy Perry, entitled "Lip-Sync Malfunction Forces Katy Perry to Use Her Own Voice to Sing", Gawker stated that while

4224-518: The 21 November 1967 edition of Top of the Pops , the song was thus played over a series of sequences from the band's 1964 film A Hard Day's Night . On the 7 December edition of the show, a specially-made black and white promo clip was broadcast with the song, which consisted of the band members editing their telefilm Magical Mystery Tour , and (other than the official promo clip in color including miming, which first became commercially available with

4320-536: The Hits , and Lip Service . Comedian Jimmy Fallon incorporated similar performances with celebrities as sketches during his late night talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ; he oversaw a standalone television series for Spike , Lip Sync Battle , which extended the concept into a competitive format between pairs of celebrities. Owing to their prominence as part of drag culture, the reality competition franchise RuPaul's Drag Race uses lip sync performances as

4416-525: The Internet with more regularity. On February 26, 1999, in a major milestone for Adobe Flash animation, the popular web series WhirlGirl became the first regularly scheduled Adobe Flash animated web series when it premiered on the premium cable channel Showtime in an unprecedented telecast and simultaneous release on the Showtime website. Created by David B. Williams and produced by Visionary Media,

4512-411: The Internet. The series starred George Liquor (a fictional character rumored to have ended Kricfalusi's employment on Ren & Stimpy ) and his dim-witted nephew Jimmy The Idiot Boy . Later, Kricfalusi produced more animated projects with Adobe Flash Professional, including several online shorts for Icebox.com, television commercials, and a music video. Soon after that, web cartoons began appearing on

4608-500: The New York stop of her anticipated comeback tour, Spears used her actual vocal cords only three times – twice to thank the crowd, and once to sing a ballad (though the vocals during that number were questionable, as well)". Rolling Stone magazine stated that "Though some reports indicate Spears did some live singing [in her 2009 concerts], the L.A. Times Ann Powers notes that the show was dominated by backing tracks (which granted,

4704-459: The Web on sites such as Sputnik7.com, Shockwave.com, Heavy.com and was also included with the CD. Its creation became one of media history's first convergent entertainment productions. Todd Wahnish, who would later go on to create Marvel Entertainment's "All Winners Squad", pioneered the early conversion of traditional hand-drawn techniques into vector-based animation seen in the video. The video triggered

4800-408: The advent of MTV and other video music channels, pop audiences have been fed elaborate videos thick with jaw-dropping effects, awesome choreography, fabulous clothes, marvelous bodies. And the same level of perfection is expected to extend beyond the video set to the concert stage. So if Britney Spears, Janet Jackson or Madonna sounds shrill and flat without a backing track, fans won't pay up to $ 300 for

4896-482: The amount of time, money, and skill required to produce a project using the software depends on the chosen content and style. Internet distribution is considerably easier and less expensive than television broadcasting. Many Adobe Flash animations are created by individual, independent artists, and many that are first distributed on the web became popular enough to be broadcast on television, particularly on such networks as MTV and G4 . Adobe Flash animation production

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4992-489: The audience knows the performer is pretending has also been popular as a form of musical pantomime, in which performers mime to pre-recorded music for the public's entertainment. It is often performed by drag performers ( drag queens and drag kings ). Iron Maiden and Muse both mocked demands by two music television programs to give mimed performances, by having their band members deliberately swap instruments. Examples of lip sync performances (sometimes referred to as

5088-424: The comparatively low cost of production and the unique arrays of new animation styles that can be achieved through the medium, including Metalocalypse , Being Ian , Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends , Kappa Mikey , Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi , Happy Tree Friends , The Buzz on Maggie , Astroblast! , Odd Job Jack , Little Einsteins , Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! , The Powerpuff Girls , Total Drama ,

5184-588: The dialogue is first translated in such a way that the words used can match the lip movements of the actor. This is often hard to achieve if the translation is to stay true to the original dialogue. Elaborate lip sync of dubbing is also a lengthy and expensive process. The more simplified non-phonetic representation of mouth movement in many anime helps this process. In English-speaking countries, many foreign TV series (especially anime like Pokémon ) are dubbed for television broadcast. However, cinematic releases of films tend to come with subtitles instead. The same

5280-409: The difficult portion of the song has passed, the artist may continue to lip sync or may resume singing live. Some artists lip sync choruses during songs but sing the main verses. The practice of syncing also occurs in musical theater, for much the same purpose as for musicians. A production may include a mix of lip synced and live musical numbers. In long-running shows, this may be done to help protect

5376-464: The duet 'Now I'm Following You', while a Dick Tracy character mouths Warren Beatty's recorded vocals. On other songs, background singers plump up her voice, strained by the exertion of non-stop dancing." Billboard editor Thom Duffy commented in 1990: "The expectations of fans have changed, and that's the driving force here ... They expect a concert as perfect as what they see on MTV." Rashod D. Ollison of The Baltimore Sun observed in 2004: "Since

5472-526: The expense of live singing." Edna Gundersen of USA Today comments that the complexity of modern stage show has forced "singing and musicianship into minor roles", citing as example artists such as New Kids on the Block , Milli Vanilli , George Michael , Cher , Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson. Gundersen elaborates: "The most obvious example is Madonna's Blond Ambition World Tour , a visually preoccupied and heavily choreographed spectacle. Madonna lip-syncs

5568-524: The expense of live singing." Edna Gundersen of USA Today reported: "The most obvious example is Madonna's Blond Ambition World Tour , a visually preoccupied and heavily choreographed spectacle. Madonna lip syncs the duet " Now I'm Following You ", while a Dick Tracy character mouths Warren Beatty 's recorded vocals. On other songs, background singers plump up her voice, strained by the exertion of non-stop dancing." Similarly, in reviewing Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation World Tour , Michael MacCambridge of

5664-533: The fact that it did not change the impact of the performance is extraordinary; whether the performance was live or lip synced made no difference to the audience," thus creating an era in which artists recreate the spectacle of music video imagery on stage. Chris Nelson of The New York Times reported: "Artists like Madonna and Janet Jackson set new standards for showmanship, with concerts that included not only elaborate costumes and precision-timed pyrotechnics but also highly athletic dancing. These effects came at

5760-489: The film track and music track are recorded separately during the creation of a music video , artists usually lip sync their songs and often imitate playing musical instruments as well. Artists also sometimes move their lips at a faster speed than the recorded track, to create videos with a slow-motion effect in the final clip, which is widely considered to be complex to achieve. Similarly, some artists have been known to lip sync backward for music videos such that, when reversed,

5856-578: The film), and Gardner's original vocals in Show Boat were heard for the first time in the 1994 documentary That's Entertainment! III . When songs appear in non-musical films, however, the actors sing live on set, but later dub their voices in ADR using a "better" performance of the song. Lip syncing is almost always used in modern musical films ( The Rocky Horror Picture Show being an exception) and in biopics such as Ray and La Vie en Rose , where

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5952-510: The hand drawn animation of Donald Duck was cleaned up and colored in Flash. The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie! , a straight-to-DVD feature of the animated series Drawn Together , produced by Comedy Central and released in April 2010, discarded the series' traditional animation and used Flash animation instead. There are a number of other software packages available that can create output in

6048-500: The help because acid reflux disease had made her voice hoarse." Her manager stated that "Just like any artist in America, she has a backing track that she pushes so you don't have to hear her croak through a song on national television." During the incident, vocal parts from a previously performed song began to sound while the singer was "holding her microphone at her waist"; she made "some exaggerated hopping dance moves, then walked off

6144-423: The ironic dubbing of Debbie Reynolds by Betty Noyes on Would You " although he pointed out that "the 19-year-old Reynolds never puts a foot wrong on smashers like Good Morning ". Reynolds also later acknowledged Betty Noyes ' uncredited contribution to the film, writing: "I sang You Are My Lucky Star with Gene Kelly. It was a very rangy song and done in his key. My part did not come out well, and my singing voice

6240-552: The late 1990s, when bandwidth was still at 56 kbit/s for most Internet users, many Adobe Flash animation artists employed limited animation or cutout animation when creating projects intended for web distribution. This allowed artists to release shorts and interactive experiences well under 1 MB, which could stream both audio and high-end animation. Adobe Flash is able to integrate bitmaps and other raster-based art, as well as video, though most Adobe Flash films are created using only vector -based drawings, which often result in

6336-478: The lyrics, and do it over and over until our spot on the show was concluded", leading to a performance Zappa described as "Detroit's first whiff of homemade prime-time Dada ." Morrissey protested a similar policy on the BBC music programme Top of the Pops by singing " This Charming Man " with a fern plant as a "microphone". When appearing on a German music programme in 1986, English metal band Iron Maiden gave

6432-550: The most subscribers in the comedian category for the United Kingdom and was the 4th most viewed comedian in the United Kingdom. Eddsworld was noticed by the organizers of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference who commissioned an episode about climate change , used in the opening ceremony of the conference. Eddsworld follows the misadventures of a group of young adult "morons" living together in

6528-512: The negative perceptions that are created and the SMPTE ST-2064 standard are discussed in audio to video synchronization . "[S]ome of the most talented singers have been caught in the act of lip-synching". Arts journalist Chuck Taylor says that it is considered "an egregious offense", but he points out that when singers are dancing and doing complex stage shows, it is hard to sing live. On some TV show performances, "the singer's microphone

6624-516: The original recording adds authenticity. But some early musicals usually use live recordings. In the 1950s MGM classic Singin' in the Rain , lip syncing is a major plot point, with Debbie Reynolds ' character, Kathy Selden, providing the voice for the character Lina Lamont (played by Jean Hagen ). Writing in UK Sunday newspaper The Observer , Mark Kermode noted, "Trivia buffs love to invoke

6720-438: The performance as less entertaining or possibly negatively, as compared to a performance displayed without the electronically introduced error. There is a technical solution to this problem, the SMPTE ST-2064 standard, but as of March 2018 it has not been adopted by any television production groups such as those who provide large venue television, or by broadcasters who provide live broadcasts. These video signal processing delays,

6816-537: The performance, revealed in his 2008 memoirs, Pavarotti Visto da Vicino , that the performance was prerecorded weeks earlier. "The orchestra pretended to play for the audience, I pretended to conduct and Luciano pretended to sing. The effect was wonderful," he wrote. Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, said that the tenor had turned the Winter Olympic Committee's invitation down several times because it would have been impossible to sing late at night in

6912-540: The performer's voice from strain and damage, as well as to maintain a high caliber of production. A notable example of using lip syncing as a special effect includes performances of The Phantom of the Opera , with swing actors in the same costumes as the lead actors give the illusion of the characters moving around the stage with some mystery. Artists may also lip sync in situations in which their backup bands and sound reinforcement systems cannot be accommodated, such as

7008-535: The pop star was "performing her hit song "Roar" at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes on Saturday, [she] suffered a devastating lip-sync malfunction." Perry was "unable to match the backing track" with her lip movements, causing the host to stop the performance and ask her if she wished to start again. Perry restarted the song, this time without the backing track. The producers issued a statement indicating that it

7104-516: The popularity of Adobe Flash animation by adding separate categories in competition for "web cartoons" or "Internet cartoons". Additionally, several exclusively web-based Adobe Flash competitions have been established . It is speculated that only the category "made for Internet" will survive, as competitions at animation film festivals are typically arranged in categories defined by film length and distribution channel, rather than by animation techniques or tools used to create it. Adobe Flash Professional

7200-633: The process. After these details emerged, at least 26 different lawsuits were filed under various U.S. consumer fraud protection laws. On August 28, a settlement was approved that refunded those who attended concerts along with those who bought Milli Vanilli recordings. An estimated 10 million buyers were eligible to claim a refund. Chris Nelson of The New York Times reported that by the 1990s, "[a]rtists like Madonna and Janet Jackson set new standards for showmanship, with concerts that included not only elaborate costumes and precision-timed pyrotechnics but also highly athletic dancing. These effects came at

7296-461: The request of Rickey Minor , the pregame show producer", who argued that "There's too many variables to go live." Subsequent Super Bowl national anthems were performed live. Whitney Houston 's rendition of the anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl was also reported to have been lip synced. Such pre-recorded performances for the Super Bowl's halftime shows and national anthem have been commonplace since

7392-469: The show used live performances with singers and acoustic instruments, it required performers to "...display their unembellished voices and ability to perform live." On MTV Unplugged , artists could not use lip syncing, backup tracks, synthesizers, and racks of vocal effects. With Unplugged , authenticity in live performances again became an important value in popular music . Ellie Goulding and Ed Sheeran have called for honesty in live shows by joining

7488-450: The shows from that period made the transition to traditional media, including Queer Duck , Gary the Rat , Happy Tree Friends , and the politically-minded JibJab shorts. Occasionally, the trend has been reversed: after being canceled from both ABC and Fox, Atom Films and Flinch Studio created net-only episodes of The Critic in 2000–2001. In another instance, Adobe Flash almost made

7584-504: The singer is seen to sing forwards while time appears to move backwards in his or her surroundings, such as in Coldplay's " The Scientist ". Notable exceptions to this trend include Bruce Springsteen 's hit " Streets of Philadelphia ", which only uses the instruments as a backing track while the vocals were recorded with a microphone attached on the singer, giving a different feel to it. On American Bandstand and most variety shows of

7680-443: The source of singing talent in the group, owner Frank Farian confessed to reporters on November 12, 1990, that Morvan and Pilatus did not actually sing on the records. As a result of American media pressure, Milli Vanilli's Grammy was withdrawn four days later, and Arista Records dropped the act from its roster and deleted their album and its masters from their catalog, taking the album Girl You Know It's True out of print in

7776-418: The stage". In 2009, US pop singer Britney Spears was "'extremely upset' over the savaging she has received after lip-synching at her Australian shows", where ABC News Australia reported that "[d]isappointed fans ...stormed out of Perth's Burswood Dome after only a few songs". Reuters reports that Britney Spears "is, and always has been, about blatant, unapologetic lip-synching". The article claims that "at

7872-483: The studio he founded, WhirlGirl follows the adventures of a young super-heroine fighting for freedom in a future ruled by an all-powerful "mediatech empire". The series originally launched in the spring of 1997 as a web comic with limited animation and sound. After gaining online syndication partners including Lycos.com and WebTV , the series first adopted Adobe Flash animation in July 1998. Following her Showtime debut,

7968-467: The studio, threw himself into the assembled audience, and stuck his nose into the camera while recordings over his own voice played". When appearing on a TV program in Detroit in 1966, Frank Zappa and his band similarly gathered on a "stage" with items from the station's props department, and asked his band members to perform "a repeatable physical action, not necessarily in sync with (or even related to)

8064-461: The sub-zero conditions of Turin in February. The committee eventually persuaded him to take part by pre-recording the song. On occasion, some vocalists have protested being asked to lip sync on television programs by blatantly drawing attention to the fact they are not singing live. When Public Image Limited singer John Lydon performed on American Bandstand , " instead he sat on the floor of

8160-441: The subtitles. Early video games did not use any voice sounds, due to technical limitations. In the 1970s and early 1980s, most video games used simple electronic sounds such as bleeps and simulated explosion sounds. At most, these games featured some generic jaw or mouth movement to convey a communication process in addition to text. However, as games become more advanced in the 1990s and 2000s, lip sync and voice acting has become

8256-452: The titular heroine appeared in over 50 Adobe Flash webisodes on the Showtime website and starred in a million-dollar multimedia Showtime marketing campaign. About the same time, Joe Cartoon launched the interactive animation "Frog in a Blender" to become one of the first true "viral hits" on the Internet,. The Von Ghouls went live in November 1999, featuring the first music group with cartoon episodes online including original songs, in

8352-404: The transition to the big screen. In 2001, production began on what would have been the first Adobe Flash-animated feature film, the ill-fated Lil' Pimp , which also began life as an Internet series. As potentially controversial as its subject matter was, it had a relatively large budget, a number of well-known actors (including William Shatner, the late Bernie Mac, and Lil' Kim), a full crew, and

8448-656: The trend dissipated, largely as a result of a lack of viable micropayment systems. Several popular online series were produced in Adobe Flash Professional, such as the Emmy Award -winning Off-Mikes , produced by ESPN and Animax Entertainment ; Gotham Girls and Lobo , produced by Warner Bros. ; Crime Time , produced by Future Thought Productions and Homestar Runner produced by Mike and Matt Chapman . Many animated television series were produced using Macromedia Flash, inspired by both

8544-475: The use of a more photogenic double. On February 10, 2006, Luciano Pavarotti appeared during a performance of the opera aria " Nessun Dorma " at the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin , Italy, at his final performance. In the last act of the opening ceremony, his performance received the longest and loudest ovation of the night from the international crowd. Leone Magiera , the conductor who directed

8640-418: The vein of Saturday morning cartoons of the 1970s. A number of popular portal sites featured Adobe Flash animation during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, including MondoMedia, Icebox, CampChaos, MediaTrip, Bogbeast and AtomFilms. Stan Lee, the late founder of Marvel Comics , launched an animated comics site. The Internet also saw the proliferation of many websites devoted entirely to Flash cartoons. Some of

8736-405: The video to create the effect of an apartment being tidied by 'un-knocking over' bookcases, while the music plays forwards. On October 23, 2004, US pop singer Ashlee Simpson appeared as a musical guest of episode 568 of the live comedy TV show Saturday Night Live . During her performance, "she was revealed to apparently be lip-synching". According to "her manager-father[,]...his daughter needed

8832-637: The way we once could, thrilling to the certain knowledge that we are witnessing something extraordinary from a great talent". The author argues that this "...makes lip-syncing in public performances wrong. Not only is the audience being lied to; it is being made cynical". While Michael Jackson 's performance on the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (1983) changed the scope of live stage show, as he mixed singing and complex dance moves, Ian Inglis, author of Performance and Popular Music: History, Place and Time (2006) states that "Jackson lip-synced ' Billie Jean '" during this TV show. In 1989,

8928-483: Was called Flash) to make Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures . This feature is used by several independent animators worldwide, including Phil Nibbelink , who saw his 77-minute feature film Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss released in theaters in 2006, and Nina Paley , who released Sita Sings the Blues in 2008. For Disneyland's 50 Magical Years film featuring Live action Steve Martin interacting with Donald Duck,

9024-400: Was dubbed in by Betty Royce [sic]". Automated dialogue replacement , also known as "ADR" or "looping", is a film sound technique involving the re-recording of dialogue after photography. Sometimes the dialogue recorded on location is unsatisfactory either because it has too much background noise on it or the director is not happy with the performance, so the actors replace their own voices in

9120-441: Was planned for Perry to sing live, except that a "technical problem" caused staff to play a "bad soundtrack". The Super Bowl has used lip syncing during singers' performances at the live-to-air sports event. During Super Bowl XLIII , " Jennifer Hudson 's performance of the national anthem" was "lip-synched ...to a previously recorded track, and apparently so did Faith Hill who performed before her". The singers lip synced "...at

9216-535: Was renamed to Adobe Animate in 2016 to both more accurately reflect its market position then, since over a third of all content created in Animate uses HTML5 , and prevent confusion between Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Flash Player since they are completely different products. Adobe will continue to support Adobe Animate even after Flash Player's end-of-life deadline by 2020, hence all animations produced in Animate will survive Flash Player's death. The only change

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