So how many of you have wanted to do voice over? just woundering how far you take it. do you know the people behind the voices? do you practice? have you taken class? do you do fan dubs? do you want to be a proffesional? and last do you watch animes with fan and have certain characters you voice when watching it?

well lets see, me, I don't know the names of the voice actors but I can tell who they are most of the time. I want to be a voice over, don't know if I can but hey it can be a hobby. I have never done fan dubs, but I do watch subs with a friend or two and we do have certain characters that we voice over for when watching, its actually fun and we have gotten pretty good with it and many voices now just by messing around. So yeah I would like to do this as a profession, well prolly have another job too, I hear they don't make that much most of the time. plus I have been in drama classes at school so I believe I could do some voice overs, well prolly just get stuck with a commercial but its still voice over. Im talking in general not just anime voice over. Oh and does anyone else do this or am I just really geeky?

NeoNemo, if you really are serious about becoming a voice over industry professional, I would suggest listening to some Old Time radio from the USA shows like the Shadow, Suspense, and x minus One were great intros into the ability of the human voice for me, I was given the name of a company that delivers a newsletter in EMAIL each month on the business , giving advice on how to set up, what to charge, and ways to devolop your acting, including seminars offered by professionals. As for me, I have directed 2 fan dubs ,City Hunter and Gundam 0083 , it's alot of hardwork but can be rewarding if carried out to the end. I was the voice of (Maki?) the number one assistant to Misato in an unreleased Evangelion dub my friend used to get professional work as a producer.


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How does one practice voiceovers?

Most voice over artists , start by taking radio broadcasting classes in college, if your always doing funny voices and tend to immitate pop culture icons alot, or popular characters of some sort, this will benefit you in the business, you need to get a demo tape together of all the differnet voices you can produce, and be able to recall those voices and accents on command for long periods of time. You will be limited to how long a line of speech can last, and will be asked to repeat some lines many times , so the director can select the best fitting delivery. There's a whole science to the art , and i've only met a few who gave perfect performances in the first "read" of their line. You will sometimes be creating a character personality on your own, with no background on the character or very little, you must learn to enunciate clearly and to sound natural while doing so. (like a real conversation) , and then again, sometimes certain characters like Lupin and Inspector Zenigata ARE bigger than life, and you have to overact and exaggerate their voices for them .




Well, at the risk of sounding crazy, by talking in funny voices to yourself, or by turning off the sound on your favorite subtitled anime and doing all the voices yourself as you read the subs. Better yet, grab some friends and do a fan dub with a microphone and a blank tape. :agree:

Me and a friend were thinking of making a fan dub of DBZ. If anyone has scene the amv of Naruto What You Didn't Hear, that's what we are doing.

Basically we use some unsubtitled DBZ scenes put them together, strip away the voices and we record our voices and say some stupid stuff and make it seem funny. I may create a Thread on this if there isn't one already.