Stop motion and voices

Some stop motion animated films have characters that move their mouths and talk.

I wonder if they record the voice before animating or after. I'm guessing it's usually before, because it sounds easier to animate the characters speaking to match the recording than it is for the actors to try and time the lines right.
If so, the animators don't already have an idea of how the voice actor would say the lines, so this is probably another time when new ideas come to the animators in the middle of the process of making the completed product.

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  1. UnknownOctober 2, 2018 at 10:15 AM

    I never thought about this, but now I am wondering too! I guess they would have to do it before so they know where the mouth should be (the shape of the mouth). But at the same time, I know that some animator's styles don't include exact representation of the way a normal mouth moves for different letters, so maybe those people record the voice afterwards.

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  2. Rose PinnisiOctober 4, 2018 at 9:19 AM

    Voice acting is always a pretty interesting aspect of animation. I know some styles lend themselves more to prerecording, and others tend to record after. I've been thinking about voices in terms of some of the realism conversations we've been having in class. You can get away with a much less realistic style of voice, where the actors just make noises instead of forming words, and it seems more acceptable in an animated setting. I can't really image that sort of thing working in live action (unless anyone can think of any examples?).

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