Thanks for your observations.
The lip sync is "hand made".
I have more than 15 different mouths in a swith layer and I place it helping with the sound.
Excellent! I don't know French either, but I loved this animation. Loved the song, too. I really liked the DNA roller coaster. The animals have wonderful personality.
Thanks again.
I've scheduled to realise a version with subtitles in english, but not yet the time to do it.
So, for anyone is interested, I give you the english words above...
Yeferbaio the Biologist
Here is the pathetic tale
Of Yeferbaio the biologist
Yeferbaio roosts without fail
In his lab, you get the gist
His mind is quick with a scheme
He’s the genitor of nervous tics
Clinging to his childhood dream
Of being a genius of genetics
Later, study proved too costly
So he disdained all degrees
And stole a warthog sneakily
‘Cos he wanted to jimmy it’s genes
Yeferbaio denies it when accused
Of trying to seperate D ’n A
Too bad for all the mice he’s transfused
So fear, law and science haven’t stood in his way
And from his lab you can hear the throng
Of all breeds of complaints and sad song
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good
We’ll do mooooo-ch better next time (tralala la)
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good (no good)
We’ll de mooooo-ch better next time
(over to me)
Yeferbaio took his cousin’s horse Achilles
Promising he’d create a racing steed
It’s enough to give you the willies
But Yeferbaio wanted to do the deed
He decreed that certain genes
Were perfect for the equine decoy
Like the little pod of Hellenes
Waiting before the gates of Troy
And then as one fine morning begun
He ended the poor pony’s ordeal
Yeferbaio said to his cousin
I’ve taught Achilles to heel
The equidae could no longer see
His eyes seemed lost in the view
He very suddenly began to speak
You wouldn’t have something for wrinkles would you?
And from his lab you can hear the throng
Of all breeds of complaints and sad song
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good (ah, no good)
We’ll do mooooo-ch better next time (yes mooooo-ch better next time)
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good (let’s leave it there)
We’ll do mooooo-ch better next time
(that’ll do)
Yeferbaio, a biological zealot
Uses weird transgenic tactics
He traps animals without going to ballot
For his unethical experimental antics
We’ve seen sweet lab rabbits from fables
Struck with over development of the lapels
And the plasma’s all gone southwards
In the gizzards of all those green lizards (whoo!)
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good (ah, no good)
We’ll do mooooo-ch better next time (yes mooooo-ch better next time)
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good (ah, but you’re such a pain)
We’ll do mooooo-ch better next time (again, again, once again)
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good (no good)
We’ll do mooooo-ch better next time (or tweet tweet or woof woof)
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good (ah don’t push it)
We’ll do mooooo-ch better next time (hey, cut that out)
No baaaa-ts, that won’t do you any good
We’ll do mooooo-ch better next time
If you're on a Mac, Perian and QT Pro can save your bacon. Perian can read subtitle files and you can save the soft subtitles as hard subtitles (included in the .mov file itself, instead of a separate file). Perian supports SSA and SRT.