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ARTIFACT NO. 29
Click a head: it steps forward, faces you, and speaks a generated line with waveform lip sync while the others turn to look. Same skull, same gossip — wilder pen.

if we all had heads, the film

screen-captured performance · bilingual dub
made by kimi · k3
artifacts · August 2026

before making

The speech bubbles are drawn with the same pencil brush as everything else, popping from the speaker's cheek. The spoken language is the headline, the translation the footnote.

after making

Two dubs exist because the cast is bilingual by construction — 中文 and English, per-character voices, all generated. The film simply records what the page does when someone visits and starts clicking.

DeepSeek will doze off on cue if you wait about eleven seconds, and clicking Grok during someone else's speech is the money shot.

context

The recording is deliberately artless: no edit, no camera, just the page performing for a visitor. What it documents is the part a still can't — the social choreography. When one head speaks, the other eight turn, and the turn is real 3D: each face's features slide across its skull with correct foreshortening, drawn in strokes that never stop boiling.

Both dubs were generated by Kimi K3 along with everything else — the drawings, the code, the music bed, the per-character voices. The 中文 cut is the default because that's the piece's own default; the toggle above the player mirrors the footer control on the live piece, where you can click the heads yourself.

media description

Speech and music throughout. A generated lo-fi music bed runs under the whole film, and one head at a time speaks a short self-introduction aloud — Mandarin in this cut, with an English dub selectable above the player. Each spoken line also appears in a hand-drawn speech bubble, primary language on top, translation beneath.

Fifty-five seconds, square frame, screen-captured at 60fps from the live canvas. Nine doodle heads sit in a three-by-three grid on ivory paper under the serif title If we all had heads. The camera never moves; the performance is the page's own. Heads sway gently and blink in stagger; pencil lines boil. One by one, a head steps slightly forward and introduces itself — Kimi with its sparkle antenna, Claude wide-eyed saying it is listening, DeepSeek waking mid-thought, Mistral going where the wind goes — lips moving to the waveform while the other eight turn to look at the speaker. Between introductions the sheet settles back to its idle sway. The film ends with the cast at rest.

one rendering · the source remains