How do animation movie studios sync voices to animation?

Question

I always wondered. Do they record voices first, then animate around the voice?

In: Technology

Answer 1

The easiest way is to record lines and then animate the characters to the voice. They do it this way so that the actors don’t need to worry about matching any of the visuals.

In a lot of animation studios, they actually film the voice actors recording the lines and give the footage to the animators. If you watch a video of Robin Williams recording lines for Aladdin, its easy to see how his acting had an effect on how the Genie was animated.