Then the following Monday the actors will read through the script again, and then spend the day recording the dialogue. While they are recording throughout the day, addition rewriting of lines is done, as well as cutting of lines that seem unnecessary. Also on Monday, artists will begin working on the storyboard. It will take up to five weeks to produce a storyboard. In the old days a director would do the whole storyboard, but with scheduling and time constraints, that's not possible anymore.
Different artists do different acts.
Then five weeks are spent doing the layouts containing the key acting drawings, and all the background drawings. This is done by a team of 7 character layout artists. We then shoot an animatic, our term for a pencil test. This is our blueprint of the episode, you how the action and how the scene cuts work with the dialogue track, and how the jokes are playing. We then go through that with the writers, and go over fixes and changes.