1. An apparatus to animate an avatar comprising: an image capture device; a script module to present script data to a user that is to include text taken from speech made in a performance by a source object in media content; a motion module to extract user facial motion data that corresponds to one or more user facial gestures observed by the image capture device when the user is to utilize the script data to verbalize the text taken from the speech made in the performance by the source object, wherein the user is to emulate the source object when the source object in the media content speaks in the performance; and an avatar module to animate an avatar based on the user facial motion data.