Family Guy

Technical Details

• The show is produced the same way as recent seasons of The Simpsons (and American Dad!). The show is storyboarded, laid out, and timed by Americans (the "pencil sketch"), and then sent overseas to Korea (although it is banned there) for in-betweening and computer coloring. On return to the U.S. the show is cut, and any additional animation is laid out and timed and sent overseas. When that comes back, the show is cut to final length, at which time no additional edits can be made because the soundtrack would be out of sync. The music and effects are then laid down.http://blog.familyguy.com/
• Many of the da-da cut-away gags are fully animated jokes from previous episodes that had to be cut for time.