Lip Sync

[Calis]

Uh... You guys should've noticed this, but in most cutscenes, they use pre-baked animation and blend them together. Most animations are actually taken straight from the emote list. I wouldn't be surprised if they had pre-baked lip flaps, and slap them there just the same. Why? Budget reasons. It would cost them a lot more money (or time) to use fresh animation to every cutscene.

Pre-bake is like, reusing animation keyframes that had been used in other shots or from a pool of pre-existing animation takes (motion capture data, or hand keyed) like those from the emote list or character attack moves in battle.

Of course, there are a few instances where they animate a scene specifically from scratch. Expect those to have proper lip sync to the Japanese audio.