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Mostly a game trope, but I've seen it apply to animation and film.
There's an up-and-coming project from an up-and-coming company. They're cutting corners on costs to stay within the budget, so instead of guest stars, or, in fact, any trained actors, they do every bit (or a statistically significant bit, anyway) of acting themselves. Be it on-screen action for a movie, or FMV cutscenes for a video game, or voice-overs for a cartoon or a video game, it's done by the dev team, not trained actors. This can lead to both good (Tex Murphy, Warcraft and Mortal Kombat come to mind first of all) and bad (a great many Mortal Kombat wannabe) results. This can also apply to localizations as well, causing a further upgrade from what is simply a "Blind Idiot" Translation to a Translation Trainwreck =)
The Russian joke phrase (which would be the Trope Namer if we had a Russian version of the Wiki) is "Voicework done by professional programmers". But do we actually have one for a case of this on This Wiki?