Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-24038268-20130929234857/@comment-4802159-20131027003843

Generally speaking, going by the livestreams and panels and just what I know about production

stage 1: planning, brainstorming, concept designing, storyboarding, and script writing.

stage 2: Voice acting/sampling, not just one episode, but for the whole chapter

Stage 3: CGI work done episode by episode until it's done.

That last stage takes the longest, but the voice acting for an entire chapter is done before CGI work is even started on the first episode, so it's not like they're doing a week-by-week production.

That they are 'taking' an extra week to polish off the last two episodes for the chapter likely means one of Oum's mass-combat scenarios (ala haloid). Either that, or they're still having difficulty putting out more than six minutes of completed CG in a weeks' timeframe.