: 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

I was thinking about this recently—how much of Robin William’s Genie performance in Aladdin was ad-libbed? Did they just put “Do a Jack Nicholson impression when you say ______”? Or did they just give him a general script, record that as well as all of his improv tangents, and then animate the finished audio cut? I assume the latter.