Blame it on the rain

Lip syncing. I never thought I'd be spending so much time on it. As an emcee, the thought of any performer ever lip syncing to music is somewhat distasteful. As a filmmaker, the process is always time consuming, precision oriented, and somewhat maddening. But when the two professions collide, I find that I must work diligently to create an effective set of visemes for the animated Rev1 so that his delivery is reasonably believable.

The question, do I make the L viseme recognizable to broad audiences as an L, or do I model it accurately, the way I say -- or swallow as it may be -- Ls?

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