Quote Originally Posted by dragon608608
I don't know, but i have a friend who study animation designer. He told me that normally the author are about 50 to 80% ahead of what they publish to the public (i am not sure this is true or not). Therefore, i guess Kishi already design this for quite sometime ago.
yea I did art in college and we had to do a comic with about 20 pages. It's long and takes like a week at best to deal with it all possibly more. He'd have to be 10 steps ahead story wise too so planning characters and plots are vital. It's best to have the complete story of naruto down or you'll be rinsing off the pages like Kishi is doing.