Summary
When we imported the audio into our scene and played it initially, Rain just stood there motionless while words came out of someone else’s mouth. Now, after a lot of work, we can say Rain is the one speaking those lines! It’s not unlike making a puppet seem to speak. Even though we’re the ones pulling all the strings, there’s a giddy satisfaction for animators in letting ourselves be fooled by our own work.
Imagine how hard it would have been to do this animation without a voiceover to work with; how hard it would be to have to animate Rain mouthing out the same lines in silence. Later, a voice actor would have to watch what you made and synchronize their performance with your work instead of the other way around. This process is called dubbing and was employed in a lot of early animations, but in my opinion, it never looks quite right. Always get the audio first, if you can.
As a bonus for completing this exercise, we now have two complementary...
