Back in November when the iPhone X was about to go on sale, I became smitten with its Animoji face-detecting characters, one of the most rewardingly silly applications of advanced technology ever. While reviewing the phone, I tweeted videos of them lip-syncing old tunes and called the results Animoji Karaoke. Soon, a whole bunch of early iPhone X adopters (including Nicki Minaj) had fun making their own such clips and sharing them on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram. Everyone else, it seemed, either enjoyed watching Animoji Karaoke or enjoyed complaining about it.
Ahem. I made this Animoji Karaoke with Apple's new bear, lion, skull, and dragon, coming to the iPhone X in iOS 11.3 this spring. https://t.co/8l6zhnkTvD pic.twitter.com/j6KWUnlIKd
— Harry McCracken 🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@harrymccracken) January 24, 2018
The more Animoji the merrier as far as I’m concerned, but if Apple is serious about giving these beasties their due, there’s an obvious next step: Rather than making Animoji available only in Messages, it should build them into its nifty Clips movie-making app. That could end the need to use iOS 11 screen recording to capture more than 10 seconds at a time, and would give Animoji impresarios the ability to create real extravaganzas entirely on the iPhone X. (I used iMovie on a Mac to corral this clip’s cast of characters into one show, dub in the audio, and add a few special effects.)
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