Warren Peace wrote:The Japanese order of animating and
then dubbing has always perplexed me. Don't you want to get the performance right and animate around that? Seems backwards.
My uneducated guess would be that in case something needs to be cut from production it would be cheaper to trashcan a few minutes of raw undbubbed animation than a few minutes of wasted voice acting. Another benefit is that it gives the voice actor more to work with, a white storyboard frame offers limited inspiration.
They aren't really great on adressing fanbase over there, it's sad having to fish up a small news morsel from an associated voice actors tweet page instead of the Eva crew dropping a short : "Wer getting this thing rollin' lol" on their homepage, it's not too much to ask for. I'm getting itchy with anticipation.
What is this? I don't even.