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The Spotlight Was On Voice Over Actors Last Sunday On CBS

April 14th, 2010

Did you catch the story on Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood that went behind the microphone, to focus on Voice Over Acting the Actors?

It was pretty interesting….Take a look:

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Voice Over Acting Videos Added….

April 14th, 2010

Hey, just an FYI…. I’ve been adding a lot of bonus videos for members of the Voice Over Success Formula Newsletter.

The latest videos covered everything you need to set up an in-home studio, a video tutorial of a multi track audio editor, and how to get that multi track audio editing software absolutely FREE! Plus a lot more!

These videos are not currently available on the public blog…They are offered to people that have signed up for the newsletter first. As time goes, I plan on also posting these to the public blog.

Until now, these videos were only available to the students that took my Voice Over Success Formula course and classes….but for now they are only available to anyone who signs up….And it’s so easy!

Just look to the upper right hand side of this blog to find the form….Just put the email address you want the stuff to be sent to…and that’s it! I don’t use the address for anything else…just this Voice Over info….PROMISE!

After you sign up…leave a comment or write me back to tell me what you think, or if you have any questions.

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And The Award Goes To….

December 1st, 2009

Animation’s highest honor…The Annie Awards have announced their 37th Annual Nominations. Here are the Voice Acting category nominees:   (You can find a complete nominee listing here.) 

Voice Acting in a Television Production

  • Danny Jacobs – Voice of King Julien – “Merry Madagascar” — DreamWorks Animation
  • Nicky Jones – Voice of Chowder – “Chowder: The Dinner Theatre” — Cartoon Network Studios
  • Tom Kenny – Voice of SpongeBob – “SpongeBob SquarePants — Truth or Square” — Nickelodeon
  • Dwight Schultz – Voice of Mung Daal – “Chowder:The Party Cruise” — Cartoon Network Studios
  • Willow Smith – Voice of Abby – “Merry Madagascar” — DreamWorks Animation

Voice Acting in a Feature Production

  • Jen Cody – Voice of Charlotte – “The Princess and the Frog” — Walt Disney Animation Studios
  • Dawn French – Voice of Miss Forcible – “Coraline” — Laika
  • Hugh Laurie – Voice of Dr. Cockroach Ph.D. – “Monsters vs. Aliens” — DreamWorks Animation
  • John Leguizamo – Voice of Sid – “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur” — Blue Sky Studios
  • Jenifer Lewis – Voice of Mama Odie – “The Princess and the Frog” — Walt Disney Animation Studios

Congrats and best of luck to all the nominees!!

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Is The Animation Voice Acting Process Changing?

October 28th, 2009

There was an interview recently on moviefone.com with Spike Jonze, Director of the hit movie “Where The Wild Things Are”. He talked about the way the voice acting process went to record the voices for the monsters in the movie. (The question and his answer are right below this.)  It will be interesting to see if the industry starts moving toward this process, or stays with recording each voice seperately. We’ll keep our eyes on it!

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The actors who voiced the monsters acted out the roles on stage together; that’s an unusual process for voice acting, isn’t it?

We worried about the traditional way — that it would become staid. I wanted them to be together, because when you have two actors going in a scene together, they affect the other one. It just sounds different, it feels different, there’s something more alive in it. That was the real goal, to get them in a room and let it come to life, from the spontaneity that can happen when you have great actors acting in the moment together.

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