Our storyboards are drawn, our characters and sets are designed, so now we need to find voices for our characters and start recording their lines. Casting in animation is unlike casting for live action movies. Since we create the physical characters on the computer first, we’re much more concerned with what an actor sounds like than how he or she looks. In other words, we cast with our ears, not our eyes.

We record the actors before we start animating. We usually videotape the actors performing their roles to help provide reference for the next phases of production and to make sure that we capture key expressions, reactions and other nuances