: When making any animated show episode, is the voice acting done earlier or the animation?

Question

If the animation is done first, do the actors have to remain strictly to script leaving no room for improv and also have to nail their timing?
And if the acting is done first, how do they time it? Do they have to do it blindly, only by imagination?

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Answer 1

Most of the time, the voices are recorded first — it’s only on rare occasions (like the original Fleischer POPEYE cartoons) where the animation’s done and then voices are added, or for foreign language cartoons dubbed into English.

It makes a lot more sense to animate to a dialogue track than to dub to an already-animated track….