: 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

Opposite the other comments, dubs of course already have animation completed, so they have to make translations, and voice the lines in a way that matches the existing animation as best as possible. They might do a couple takes, then artificially change the speed of a line for some fine tuning later, and stuff like that.