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How Talking Mickey Works??
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Tigger#1
Active Member
Does anyone here remember something called K.C.Bearphone? They were sold about 20 years ago and they would lipsync the person on the other end of the line. I still have one and he is pretty accurate on his mouth movement.
I'm quite sure that technology has gotten a lot better since then so the mouth movement may be automatic to the speech output.
I'm quite sure that technology has gotten a lot better since then so the mouth movement may be automatic to the speech output.
I do ... they gave me nightmares. http://forums.wdwmagic.com/images/smilies/lookaround.gif
Fortunately, talking Mickey and Minnie aren't creepy. So kudos to Disney on that!
unkadug
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Tigger#1
Active Member
I loved K.C. he wasn't creepy
It was always great when you had to call someone you didn't really want to talk to because you were talking to a Bear
Earforce1
New Member
This has baffled me ever since I first saw Mickey blinking then they hit us with him talking. I was there for my birthday in December and it blew me away. I've watched fingers bending at shows and they are definitely synced with his eyes blinking. It's an awful lot for the "characters" to remember, besides performing, dancing, they have to remember which hand to use for blinking and which hand to use for talking. Could there possibly be some kind of contraption that is connected to their jaws inside the head and then they can talk which controls Mickey's mouth. I just like the above answer the best "Mickey IS real"!!!!
thepirateking
Well-Known Member
I believe this is how it works:
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130226588
If you look at the 5th image (Figure 3B), the first greeting is "Hey Pal!". Sounds like someone I talked to recently...
-TPK
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130226588
If you look at the 5th image (Figure 3B), the first greeting is "Hey Pal!". Sounds like someone I talked to recently...
-TPK
Cesar R M
Well-Known Member
the best synced one seems to be timon (clearly all scripted)
I also wonder if the eyes are actually synced with a finger or to the eyes of the operator too.
because I seen the festival of the lion king 3 times and it always blinked differently.
I have yet to see the sorcerer animated mickey..
Cmdr_Crimson
Well-Known Member
A good site about that is called Backstage Magic has a better explanation on how this works...http://backstagemagic.tumblr.com/search/talking mickey
Cesar R M
Well-Known Member
thanks for sharing the link!
MagicHappens1971
Well-Known Member
Sorry to bump this thread up, but I was just looking up info about talking Mickey on Google and found this thread.
The patent insinuates that they wanted to implement magicbands into this, would've made it more personal.
The patent insinuates that they wanted to implement magicbands into this, would've made it more personal.