This character is definitely mischievous, wicked, up to no good. You need to find the character’s charm, even if it’s a wicked or evil character. You need to make really strong choices around the character’s physical traits. In cartoon animation, often the attributes are extreme, a really huge nose, really big eyes, impossible buck teeth or strange body shape. Hopefully this will give you enough information about the character’s role in the story or scene and its emotional journey or attitudes.Īnd, of course you’ll always be sent an image of the character, which will give you all the clues you’ll need to make choices about how that character sounds. Unless you’re playing a lead role, you may only be sent a few scenes or pages from the script. In the ‘brief’ that you’ll be sent, you’ll be given the important information about the character’s emotional states and personality as well as the character’s role or journey in the story. Then your voice will be submitted to Advertising Agency creative’s and the client for approval. That is, you go to a studio and record the complete script. In that case you would be booked to do what is called a submission. Just as an aside, you could also be asked to audition for an animated character for a television commercial. When you’re invited to audition, you’ll be sent a character breakdown, an image of the character and a script, either a monologue or a few scenes from the script. More often than not, Producers use mainstream sound recording studios (often the studio they’re planning to use for the recording) to audition prospective voices for their cast, although it can occasionally be done at a casting studio, where you perform the voice to camera, with the producers or directors in the room. Or, you may have an unusual or quirky sounding voice, or you may just happen to have exactly the right natural voice for one of the characters. Usually you’re invited to audition because you are either a known performer with a good track record or you’re a voice over professional with a great deal of experience and a solid repertoire of character voices. So just how do you get cast for animation jobs, animation shorts, films or series? However, there are ways to get your talent for character voices in front of those producers who are casting.įirst, you have to get the job. That’s why I encourage people to find ‘advertising’ scripts that require a character voice and include those on the demo. The problem with doing this is that the cartoon voice isn’t accompanied by a visual, and without that, we don’t really know whether you’re talented at voicing for animation because we can’t attach it to any particular character. I sometimes get a demo that has some good voice over reads on it and then some samples of character voices towards the end of the demo, that are just a random selection of cartoony type voices using scripts that don’t have an advertising message. So when it comes to creating character voices for a demo, you need to be really canny about how you choose the script. When we do a voice over, our job is to convince the listening audience to do what we want them to do buy that product, go to that event etc. When we perform in animation, we’re being observed, just as we are when we’re performing on stage or screen. Let’s talk about the difference between voice acting for advertising, and animation. Of course, those who are talented at character work, are always encouraged to include a small amount of character work on a demo, it on a demo or if they’re very versatile, to make a separate character demo Once you have that demo and are booking work, you can build your profile as a character voice actor. I often tell people who are passionate about animation to concentrate on building a fine voice demo mostly weighted with straight stuff, because if you listen to mainstream radio and television, that’s what you’ll hear that…and that’s where all the work is. Once this is established, you’ll have more of a chance of being suggested for animation series, when they are casting for them. If you do want to work in animation, you first need to prove to casting people that you know your way around a script first and foremost. Well, if they do, they always manage to be alive in the next scene. They’re entertaining, insightful, funny, and no one ever dies. This has to be about the best fun a performer or voice actor can have.
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