When making whiteboard vids what comes first drawing or voiceover?

I would think drawing. I outsource mine, and they don't do voice, so I get the whiteboard and then if I want voice, I get that, but usually I settle for a background music, which my assistant can add.

When I was getting custom animated videos created it was always the voiceover they did first. They would get the voiceovers right and then do all of the animations to match the voiceover.

I think it's hard for voiceover artists to do their voiceover and match the animations of a video. It can be done but the results won't always be great and it might take a lot of tries to get things right.

Here's how I do it:

Create an outline in the form of a story board.

Write the script.

Record the video and sync it with the voice over.

When i outsource they always to the voice over first.

Easier to build up the vid based on a voice over than the over way round.

Cheers,

Gary

Sounds like a great question for youtube.

Drawing should definitely come first, since it's really easy to adjust your voice afterwards to whatever is on screen.

You lay down the audio tracks first, and make the drawings and video fit the pacing of the audio. If need be, you go back and re-edit the audio to make timing adjustments.

Cartoons work the same way...kind of...the scenes of the characters are drawn first, and the 'mouth flaps' overlay on top of the original art work to get the mouths of the characters moving correctly in sync with the audio.

Anime is a little different, you take the translations of the original script, and re-write the script to make the words fit the mouth flaps of the characters, since adding a different language to the movie or show is actually part of post production, done by outside sound studios--most anime shows and movies are voiced for English after they have been released overseas.

Source: 5 years experience commercial radio production, 2 years experience syncing studio audio with animation

Audio first, far easier to make the video around the voice!

I would say that they do the audio track first but it might be different for doodle videos, not really sure

freestyling a voice over may sound more conversational, which would be better for an interview--conversational style for an advertising or informational video just makes the final presentation seem poorly thought out.

You have to do the script first. Then the voiceover so you can have the timing down. It will make the project sync up much faster that way.