Originally Posted by Ixal
Even "romance" scenes must be planned, dialoge (before and after the scene) must be written, the lines recorded, the animation has to be recorded and has to got through post production which is rather lengthy compared to other animations because of the close interaction between characters and it must be tested.

The romance scenes we got were mostly hugs and kissing animations.

From the kissing interactions of Lae?zel and Shadowheart (the ones I know) there are about 4 spoken lines, chosen randomly (not connected to the animation), and these do not interact with the situation before and after. So, yes, post-production is a thing, but besides that, there�s no plot interaction, no changed dialogue outside the scene.

Originally Posted by Ixal
And while Belgium is not hire-and-fire, they too use outsourcing which the credits also confirm.
For example the motion capture?

For the voice actors those romance scenes will likely be pretty nice to plan: every character has roughly the same number of lines.

And though I already said it: looking at the reaction to the new romance scenes, I doubt that other scenes would have had a similar or higher impact with the same or lower amount of work.

(� though I would actually like to also have the previous kissing animation, simply as randomly chosen interaction, because it was far too good to throw away)