You may have to speak up though . He ’s wearing a towel .

Fox have announced that three transactions of the May fifteenth episode of the long runningmeme author / invigorate situation comedy will boast an unprecedented “ springy ” section where Homer ’s phonation actor , Dan Castellaneta , will reply sports fan doubt ( and to verify its unrecorded nature , comment on current events ) in a sequence that utilize movement capture to tie Castellaneta ’s lively carrying into action to the two - dimensional Homer .

It might be the first time something like this has been assay on an alive show , but using motion seizure for 2D assets is n’t itself a new thing . But it ’s still uncanny — given that an installment of The Simpsons usually takes month to animise — to see it happening basically in real metre . uncanny and fascinating , peculiarly as it ’s part of a grow trend of creating live events for TV to battle the advance of people watching programing recorded or on - requirement . Not even animation is consecrated from doing a “ live ” episode , apparently !

William Duplessie

If you ’ve got a burning interrogative for one of vitality ’s most iconic characters , you’re able to submit it with the “ # HomerLive ” tag on Twitter between May 1st and May 4th .

[ THR ]

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