“Here’s hoping Animoji karaoke becomes a thing.”
That was what I tweeted on Halloween night when I shared a video–10 seconds of a cartoon fox lip-syncing a snippet of “Bohemian Rhapsody,”–which I had made with the iPhone X’s Animoji feature, which uses the phone’s TrueDepth camera to map your face movements to an animated emoji character.
24 hours later, I figured out how to break through the 10-second ceiling imposed by the Animoji applet inside the iPhone’s Messages app. I then used iMovie to edit together two Animoji characters performing a duet of the first song that popped into my head—”Hooked on a Feeling,” as performed by Blue Swede (ooga chaka!)—and added the soundtrack in post-production for better audio fidelity. Then I tweeted the results and went to bed.
Image: courtesy of Apple
