Is The Animation Voice Acting Process Changing?
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!
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.