Thanks for checking the video out! I appreciate your thoughts on this.

As for the lip-sync...
The lip-sync is like that because this was animated live and then edited down. Essentially we're all in a Discord call and the characters are assets in OBS. Each person in the call is connected to a character "puppet", and the puppet changes between Idle and Active states if it recognizes that specific person is talking. The "Active" state only holds one animation, so it's just a generic lip-flapping animation.

So this video essentially animated itself as we were improvising the story and drawing the backgrounds (which you can see happening as the video continues). We recorded this and the upcoming 2 episodes in a single 3-hour session, and the most time-consuming part (aside from creating the actual puppets) was editing the video down to something much more watchable. We actually have the entire unedited session up on Youtube.

So, unfortunately, the lip-syncing isn't really going to improve in any real way aside from perhaps one of us getting a better recording setup so that the microphone picks up less background noise. Aside from that, the bad lip-syncing is as of right now an unavoidable shortcoming of the technique we used to get this whole project together in the first place.