Ask a professional Voice Actor Anything. (No requests, or questions

>>560337682
Why are you lying on the internet? No professional writes 'professional Voice Actor Anything'.

No, fuck you.

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>>560337875
Sure /b/ro, sure.

Do you make enough money from voice acting for it to actually be considered a career? Or is this note of a "someone hired me for a one-time job on the VAA forums and paid me a bit; that means I'm a professional now!"

>>560337682
Can you say "ayy lmao" on vocaroo with a scottish accent please. That is my fetish

>>560338369
Now a days (last 10 or so years) I've been able to do it as a steady career. Early on though when I couldn't get steady work I did construction work to get by.

Interesting tid-bit for ya though... The actual term for "someone hired me for a one-time job on the VAA forums and paid me a bit" is "amateur professional". Basically it's when you work as hard as someone who does it professionally, but you haven't done any actual professional work. For a Voice Actor this would be something like... Fan Dubbing. For an actor it would be like... "Shakespeare in the park". For a dancer it would be like... "Local Dance Crew for hire". Basically it's people who do the work, but just haven't hit it "big" yet.

>>560338881
Please refer to
>>560337682

>>560339007
you are a fucking moron. The moment you are paid to do something you are a professional. Doesn't matter how small or big it is. There is no such thing as "amateur professional". Please consult a dictionary next time.

>>560337682
how does it feel getting raped on a set of a mustard commercial at 8 years old

>>560337682
How types of voices do you usually do? Where are you based out of? How did you get into it?

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>>560339437
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_professionalism

>>560339660
Also, excuse my horrible grammar. It's late and I'm coming down from acid.

>>560339007
Interesting... no wait, the other thing. Tedious.

Nah, just kidding. But now I'm curious, how does a VA go about getting steady work? I mean, there seem to be staples in voice acting, how did they get where they did? I'd ask more specifically about how you yourself did it if that doesn't violate your no identification rule.

>>560337682
Are you paid by the word ?
What's it like being too ugly to be a real actor ?
Do you get pissed off that they get all the chicks and you have to play the voice of a homosexual beaver in a road traffic advert ?

>>560339738
wow a small blurb on Wikipedia. Shit I can make a wiki article in two seconds and call it real fact. I hope to Jeebus you aren't a voice actor I actually like.

>>560340104
why dont you?

>>560339660
I generally work with deeper voices and tones, sounding gritty and badass. I CAN do higher tones because I have the range, but my lower tones are both what I'm better that, and what people ask for the most.
I'm Canadian. (As much as I'll answer on that)
I got started in radio when my uncle gave me a chance to do some local commercials, from there I gave my samples to an agent who got me better commercials, and from there I started in Anime, and moved between anime and Games like I do now.

>>560340104
he's not, because he's lying to you. ;^)

>>560340185
uno momento por favor.

>>560340230
which anime and games have you worked on?

>>560340230
Follow up- Do you speak any languages besides English? Or is all your anime work for dubs?

>>560340230
Also, how do you take care of your throat, since your voice is your job? smoker? any specific regimen you do?

>>560340230
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148418/

It's Micheal Cera im calling it right now.

>>560340762
wheres the fucking wiki article

>>560339818
First off, thanks for respecting my wishes of wanting to stay anonymous.
To answer your question there are two main ways (and in some cases they both work)
A) You get an agent who finds work for you. Usually they get a set percentage of what you make, and that's how they are paid. Also often when you first sign on with an agent you'll need to pay a fee (anywhere between $100-$200) for them to hire a "web guy" to make an online profile for you that your agent will upload for potential clients to look at. They could also charge you some upfront costs for getting professional photo's done (though that's more for acting than VA work) and some other up front costs. This means you (as a client) need to do your research and make sure the person you're paying is legit, and not someone saying they will do shit and it's just a scam.
(on that topic, when I started years ago my agent asked for 30-40% of what I get from it (before taxes) depending on how much I made from the deal)

2) You join a professional Actors union. They generally don't let people in (and the minimum is usually 3-5 professional jobs before they will even consider you) if they are new. But once you are accepted you are promised X number of jobs per year, and in return you also are contracted to do at least X number of Union jobs per year.
I'm part of an actors union AND have an agent. because I am unionized though my agent can't ask for anything more than 15% for her work. Also it means that the union promises me at least 5 jobs a year, and I must do at least 3 union jobs a year.

What games have you worked on? I really fucking want to get into voice acting after listening to Deathshead from Wolfenstein: The New Order and listening to Lex Lang voice act in Crash Twinsanity.

What advice do you have in general? Protect your throat, don't do any screaming/smoking? How do you go about in practicing and training your voice?

Thanks.

>>560337682
Calling H. Jon Benjamin

>>560341289
hold your nig nogs jeez. I shall deliver.

>>560341383
asking what you've worked on isn't asking who you are. just answer the fucking questions, that's what you said you'd do faggot.

>>560340427
In order to keep myself anonymous I won't divulge what projects I have worked on. But I have worked both on anime and video games.

>>560341483
H. Jon Benjamin isnt Canadian.

>>560340478
I only fluently speak english, but have learned some simple Japanese to help with doing Anime. Just basic stuff so that I know how to properly pronounce things like names, places and objects.
I also know a couple words of Russian because I have family from there.

>>560341749
fuck you're a faggot. how many VAs do you think work on a single project? you'd know this if you actually were one.

>>560341383
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_day_some_one_impersonated_a_person_on_the_internet

>>560341289
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_day_some_one_impersonated_a_person_on_the_internet

^fuck all of ya'll took me about ten minutes to make an account and do that

>>560340653
I don't smoke, not only because of what it would do for my throat, but it just simply never interested me. I also avoid smoking weed for the same reasons.
I've found when it comes to my throat that it works like any other muscle I have, and the more I work it certain ways the better it performs. For example, I can do a perfect Duke Nukem Impression (i'm not the guy who plays him, nor have I ever professionally), in fact now with the original actor getting on in years I can sound more like Duke Nukem than he can. But when I first started to do it I could only do one sentence without it killing my throat, but the more I did it the more of it I could do. Till now I'm at the point where I could speak like it all day and it doesn't bother me at all.
Also, when I do my work I drink Powerade. I don't know what it is, but something in that stuff Coats my throat and it almost never goes hoarse.
I also do lung and diaphragm expansion exercises, but that has nothing to do with my throat.

>>560342019
Most likely fewer than you would assume, since voice actors can do multiple voices.
It's probably time for you to go to bed.

>>560342540
let me stop you here. If you were really a voice actor you would do an AMA on reddit like all other famous people do. So just stahp. please.

>>560342540
arin hanson, you're an unfunny retarded faggot and your wife is fucking ugly.

>>560341449
I've listed a couple of the things I do already, please check previous posts.
As for practicing, I play D&D in my free time and do voices for that when I DM games. I also read to my niece, and interestingly enough I go to places like here and create delivery threads (under the name "Voice Guy" ), to date I've done 995 deliveries just for 4chan.

>>560342729

+1 for delivaring an article.
>This article may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as pure vandalism.
Made me kek, however.

>>560342902
amen to that

>>560342540
Wow, the writing does really sound like Arin Hanson.

However, you're not.

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>>560342374
Took you 10 minutes... I replied within 2 with one link out of many that came up.

>>560343017
fuck off. TheVoiceGuy isn't a fucking faggot like you are. After the Smashmouth thing, he said he's still trying to become a voice actor. so go fuck yourself, faggot.

>>560343350
please cry, I actually delivered. You how ever are just an attention whore pretending to be a voice actor.

>>560343017
Thanks for replying.
Who are some of your personal favorite voice actors?

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>>560343451
Maybe you didn't notice, or you were too busy making assumptions, but I said I did so under the name "Voice Guy" not "The Voice Guy", though this seems like a simple mistake that any simple person could make.

>>560343716
you know I don't know if you know this but anyone can say they are anything on the internet. Ya know? Like I could say im fucking Matt Smith if I wanted to. Doesn't make it true.

>>560343716
Maybe you're a moron, well no that one's a given, but TheVoiceGuy is his username on Youtube. Voice Guy is handle on here. It was bait, faggot, and you just took a big bite. ;^)

>>560343538
Steve Blum is my personal favorite. Me and him were once both guests at a con and I took the opportunity to invite him out for drinks when we were done and the two of us spoke to everyone in voice all night, was a good time, I'll never forget it.

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>>560343939

>posts something dumb
>w8 no it's b8 i trol u
Come on, seriously.

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>>560343939
Oh that's adorable. You're using terms like bait because your too new to know proper terms. I always get a laugh out of watching kids reinvent the same slang over and over, and then act like they invented it from the start.

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>Brian Drummond

>>560344115
>not realising you can think more than one step ahead

keep thinking people are all as dumb as you, m80.

>>560344180
im using terms like bait because "trolling" sounds as pathetic as your little "guise im a famous voice actor, please let me pretend im not a useless drain on my parents until bump limit" thread

Big fan. Found you on /r/4chan on reddit. Amazing. Top keks.

>>560344115
Eh, leave the kid alone, he likely spilled his juice-juice and will have a fit if you antagonize him, then his folks will have to deal with him, and I'm sure they got it tough enough dealing with him on a normal day, think of his poor parents man...

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>>560344508
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1JrnkfL1KQs

>>560344508

You're right, but failed attempts like that usually make me facepalm.

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>>560344453
I'm sorry, but you must have me mistaken for someone else, as I've never been to reddit, and have no plan on ever going there. Sorry if I got your hopes up.

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>>560344508
if you are Brain Drummond then holy shit I can see why you dont have a career as a real actor geez

>>560344508
saying kid to try make yourself feel like you're better than me. but boy i bet ur jsut super important in real life ;^)

taking all this time to reply to one cunt being a faggot, you sure know how to deal with people

I've been working on a hard science fiction horror game that will release on mobile devices and steam. it's almost finished with No previews to spoil it. I have a script but need actors. I don't want to ask friends because They all sound too beta to do voices. can you give me tips on finding people and also formats for scripts. I have just random dialogue in a text file. I already tried Google. I might ask random people on the street.

>>560344643
I'm in a hotel room right now on my laptop, and I generally don't bring my equipment with me when I leave for work.
Also, I genuinely have no interest in using my mic since I'll be doing that all day again tomorrow, and did it all day yesterday.
When I want to do things like that I make threads for it. These threads are because I know lots of people have questions, and I generally have the answers they are looking for. It's purely to be informative and help people, not for me to spread my voice around further, and turn the thread into people making requests.

>>560345090
who excatly are you helping by making on thread on 4chan? I place filled with trolls? Are you really that thick?

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>>560345090
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1AEJVzNW1PV

>>560345258
I like your voice, to me you are more of a voice actor then this clown.

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>>560345425
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0dxBkeljjXF

>>560345014
I would suggest using celtx to write your scripts, it's a great free program that's designed specifically for writing scripts.
As for finding Voice actors who are willing to work for free, I just did a quick google search of "Voice Acting community" and several websites came up. I would suggest a similar search for yourself.
But I'm always willing to help out small time people doing things. If you take the time to make your scripts proper using Celtx, then send them to me and I like some of it I'll do a voice for you that you can simply credit "Voice Guy". But if you don't bother to make proper scripts I won't bother to do the work.
Send the scripts to [email protected] when you have them done

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>>560345514
my nipples are so fucking erect right now

>>560345594
you....you put your gmail on b/.....oh gawd this is going to be so fucking fun. I feel like Christmas came early today

>>560345258
As I said, and was quickly proven. Once you use Vocaroo, that's all that people want, which defeats the point of the thread entirely.

>>560337682
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>>560337875
You're a faggot, why should we believe in a random fat neckbeard on /b/? Tell us who you are and provide proof, then we'll see how big of a faggot you are.

>>560345781
You mean the alternate email that I made specifically so that people from 4chan can email me...? Yeah, that's kind of it's whole point

What about the money? How much are you paid for a game lets say?

>>560345594
Thanks, I couldn't find examples. it feels like everyone wants to keep it a secret and I don't want to scare anyone away with my noviceness. I'm pretty confident in everything else

>>560345998
ignorance really must be bliss?

>>560346075
In my career I've been paid everywhere from $50 to just do a simple plug for something, all the way to tens of thousands of dollars, all the way to hundreds of thousands for doing larger scale projects.

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>>560346318
faggot

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>>560346701

>>560346803
You've used these picture comments like you're a 12 year old on facebook, is there any voice actors near the age of 12?

>>560346803
troll confirmed. Im just sitting here waiting for the thread to burn at this point >.> idk if it was worth it or not.

>>560346880
I just use the same shit you use for me. If you give shit, you best be ready to get it back.

>>560347059
>I just use the same shit you use for me
>>560338331
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>>560344725
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