Generally, because that’s not how cartoons are voiced.
However, table reads at comic conventions are a popular thing.
They record the audio, then match the animation to the voices.
They don’t watch the animation and try to match the voices, that only happens for a dub.
That’s true of western animation, but Japanese anime is drawn first, then the VAs match their performance to the footage.
Also, when they’re recording the audio, they’re usually not just reading through the whole script in one go
They’re probably doing multiple takes of most of the lines, changing little things until they get the take that feels right
So you’d end up with a bunch of choppy little cuts instead of a nice long continuous shot of the VA doing their thing in a recording booth like OP is probably imagining
Because it would have more jump cuts then a Pitbull music video.
They do sometimes show clips of the VA doing work on ‘the making of X specials’
Because it would put an incredible strain on the animators.
I’m pretty sure there are already some examples of that on YT, etc, but I don’t really see why anybody would want to see a whole cartoon like that. Seems like it would get tiresome and distracting, pretty fast.
That’s stuff you used to see on the special features of DVDs and laserdiscs, etc. I agree you see much of that anymore.
Then it ceases to be animation and they have to pay union rates.
Probably suspense of disbelief, or whatever it is. That, and it’s a pretty meta thing that would probably only work best in a comedy cartoon.
I know the show Chowder had an episode where they “ran out of budget for the animation” and did a pretty short gag where it switched over to the VA’s and how they had to fundraise to get back to their animated forms. But I don’t know many other shows that could or even did that type of meta humor.
Edit:
I’ll say Habit.
TV/cinema is wildly influenced by theatre and to protect the « act of disbelief » you have to hide the actors
Not much theatre hides the actors
You’re right. Not actors but technicians, people that support the play.
In the context : in a puppets show you have to « hide » the voice actor
But yeah it wasn’t that clear
Actors is still correct, the people waiting to enter the scene aren’t shown just chilling off to the side.
They are in Brechtian theatre
