talking dogs with scottish accents

February 20, 2003 5:01 PM

Giving lip. Put your words in the mouths of talking heads. Or dogs, with Scottish accents. Brought to you by the good folks at Bud. Weis. Er. Excellent pronunciation!
posted by steef (24 comments total)

oh. yeah: (Plugin required.)
posted by steef at 5:11 PM on February 20, 2003

Wait'll Spartacus hears about this.
posted by y2karl at 5:21 PM on February 20, 2003

good post on 2 counts:

1) wow. can't believe face animation is getting easier to do, and is believable.. to an extent. too bad the Final Fantasy: Spirits Within people didn't see this :)

2) The plugin worked fine in Phoenix! .. auto-d/l'd, installed and ran. The way it should be.... and i'm not used to it.
posted by shadow45 at 5:28 PM on February 20, 2003

I can't believe no one's calling this out as a viral marketing gimmick... perhaps we're all too distracted drinking our delicious berry flavored Pepsi?
posted by jonson at 5:41 PM on February 20, 2003

But it is pretty fucking cool.
posted by jonson at 5:47 PM on February 20, 2003

The speech simulation is only slightly better than I was hearing a few years ago...but if you get a character to say "Gag me with a spoon" in Valley Girl, it's quite good.
posted by frykitty at 5:51 PM on February 20, 2003

This thing is dangerous
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:08 PM on February 20, 2003

There is no way in Hades I am going to freely give my email address to the marketing juggernaut that is Budweiser.
posted by moonbiter at 6:12 PM on February 20, 2003

moonbiter: don't forget, when asked for your email address it is: [e-mail] or [e-mail]
posted by blue_beetle at 6:16 PM on February 20, 2003

So they don't mail you the link to the animation?
posted by moonbiter at 6:23 PM on February 20, 2003

Very, very cool. Thanks for sharing this. Let me take this opporunity to say hello.
posted by VelvetHellvis at 6:24 PM on February 20, 2003

You're cute, but I couldn't stand to hear that voice all day.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:29 PM on February 20, 2003

A tough test but it seemed to do OK ...
posted by carter at 7:28 PM on February 20, 2003

A public service anouncement from the fine folks at Budweiser...
posted by turaho at 7:29 PM on February 20, 2003

Easy Target!
posted by Witty at 8:12 PM on February 20, 2003

crap... this is what I meant
posted by Witty at 8:15 PM on February 20, 2003

It's never too early to think about spring.
posted by Mayor Curley at 9:16 PM on February 20, 2003

Reservoir Robots
posted by Stauf at 9:30 PM on February 20, 2003

This thing is dangerous
posted by Pretty_Generic at 6:08 PM PST on February 20

After regaining my composure, I forwarded that to all my friends. That was hilarious.
posted by oissubke at 9:31 PM on February 20, 2003

Man, the site's not working anymore. Just when I had a great clip of Tom Daschle reciting the lyrics to "Damn it feels good to be a gansta..."
posted by oissubke at 9:54 PM on February 20, 2003

I think of Budweiser as good ol' boy bottled water. It's weak as milk but with a bit of a barley tang, so a man can nurse Buds all day long and probably not pilot his truck into a field or wet himself during a job interview. Other people like beer...if this is viral marketing (which I don't think it is) it's probably not worth the effort to oppose it.
posted by crunchburger at 10:11 PM on February 20, 2003

Gotta admit, the scottish accent is pretty good... but only if you do an Irvine Welsh style transliteration... otherwise, ees a fookin piece a shite.
posted by psmealey at 8:02 AM on February 21, 2003

after hours of trying to get ee cummings to say "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands," i began to wonder: is it possible ally sheedy provided the basis for their "valley girl?" the similarity is uncanny.
posted by steef at 9:11 AM on February 21, 2003

Holy Cow steef.... that was brilliant! Well done.
posted by Witty at 10:52 AM on February 21, 2003