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

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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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I work in the film and tv industry, there is almost never animation done before the voice acting. There can be sketches of what the characters look like but not usually. They will video record the actor as well so the animators can use the actors facial expressions as reference. I’ve done sessions for some big budget films and they only have animations after they’ve done the majority of the principle recordings and decided to change the script, either to add/change lines.

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