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Post by VirtuousKing on Mar 25, 2017 10:55:39 GMT -8
I started voice acting through inspiration through Kaiji Tang. I was 18 when I discovered voice acting for myself. Started auditioning in Behind the Voice Actors in 2014 and Casting Call Club in a year later. I wanted to do animation, anime, video games and visual novels for myself. Then in three years later, I went to Hydra Comic Con and met Keith Silverstein. I went to do one of my favorite lines of Shido's from Persona 5 while at Hydra Comic Con. Yet after that, I thought how much I actually love to do acting whether it is for animation, anime, video games and visual novels. During the year of 2014, my other grandmother passed away, It was a sad moment, but it deeply had me going to my decision for voice over.
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Post by nomadicmaniac on May 14, 2017 11:58:40 GMT -8
I started getting to voice acting for a myriad of reason but the main one was because i did a high school senior project on the subject of voice acting which at that point i only had a passing interest in. But i did the project and through the research i did on the industry for the project and the short little voice over snippets i did for the project i became more and more engrossed on the subject. When i finally did my presentation i had so much fun with it and the teachers liked it so much that i decided that it would be something i'd enjoy doing as a job, or even as a simple hobby.
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Post by Lady Stardust ★ on May 16, 2017 1:56:09 GMT -8
I started getting into anime and videogames when I was in high school and sort of realized "oh hey, there are people who do the voices for this sort of thing, I want to do that!" And then I heard about flash animations and amateur voice acting communities and jumped into trying to do stuff online.
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Post by ShadowRanma on May 16, 2017 7:36:03 GMT -8
I was doing a project in college where we had to make our own animations. I used the campus' recording booths and I REALLY started to get into being able to put so much energy and enthusiasm into the roles and the joy of entertaining people no matter how ridiculous or cool you look in the process. If I had known I'd have this much fun with acting in general, I should've made it my college major and my graphic design as a minor. And that's what got me into voice acting. I was able to take an acting class in college during my senior year and I get involved in any available voice acting workshops that I'm able to afford and attend since then.
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Post by benedict on May 16, 2017 12:15:35 GMT -8
I was doing a project in college where we had to make our own animations. I used the campus' recording booths and I REALLY started to get into being able to put so much energy and enthusiasm into the roles and the joy of entertaining people no matter how ridiculous or cool you look in the process. If I had known I'd have this much fun with acting in general, I should've made it my college major and my graphic design as a minor. And that's what got me into voice acting. I was able to take an acting class in college during my senior year and I get involved in any available voice acting workshops that I'm able to afford and attend since then. That's cool! My only exposure to the campus recording booths was a particularly disastrous project in my Japanese class. By the time I was done I had a subconscious fear of recording booths. I'm over it now, but what a lost opportunity!
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Post by Lumisau on May 17, 2017 0:46:12 GMT -8
I was always interested, but what sparked the idea of me actually pursuing it was when I was in after-school drama classes and instead of normal plays and improv performances, we were going to do radio plays. I was super-excited. We were given a bunch of scripts of old, classic radio plays, and my group chose The Hitch-hiker. Since I was the most enthusiastic, I got to be the lead+narrator and the other two in my group were the extras. It was a live performance, with our classmates and family in a different room to the mic setup. And it was exhilarating to perform. Now, with all the skill I have developed over the past eight years I'm sure if I listened back I'd cringe. But when my teacher opened the door, his eyes wide, saying "Wow... just wow", I knew the bug had bitten me. Then a few months later I was looking up Haruhi Suzumiya genderbend stuff and someone had made a radioplay about it on this site called the VAA. I joined the site. Tadaa.
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Post by Man on the Internet on May 17, 2017 16:35:15 GMT -8
I started stage acting at a young age and would like to think I was pretty good. Then I saw pictures of myself and realized I looked like a gremlin. People always told me my voice was my strongest suit so I moved my focus there.
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Post by feliciavoices on May 18, 2017 8:46:44 GMT -8
I always wanted to be an actress, but ended up focusing more on music and subsequently, went to music school (while taking acting classes and the like). Always adored animation and it was my hobby to know who voiced what, but it was my wonderful SO who gave me a xmas gift of voiceover classes and I have never looked back!
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Post by sibernethy on May 29, 2017 19:01:54 GMT -8
I only started stepping into it very recently but mostly it was due to the dozens and dozens of people I've talked to on Discord and Skype who loved hearing my voice. My actual voice (according to my friend) makes me sound like a cartoon character and since I could tell she loved it, I took it as a compliment! Some of these people suggested that I go into voice acting, and usually, the only voice acting I do is for my own characters. But I'm in touch with a voice coach who is helping me overcome my reservations and reluctance about stepping into the world of voice acting.
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Post by Kyotosomo on Jun 5, 2017 14:36:44 GMT -8
I always loved acting ever since I was a little kid but never really did much with that love as it's a really financially underwhelming job path with terrible job security, so instead I focused on taking lots of hard classes and doing lots of extracurricular activities that would look good on a resume (excluding the MMA and Skiing tournaments I entered which admittedly were purely for fun) that way I could pursue a successful career in Computer Science and Engineering. While in college though around a year ago I contracted a deadly auto immune disease called Wegeners and the brush with death was a wake up call. I realized that I was doing nothing in college except coursework and hanging out with friends. I decided to pick up a hobby and that hobby was voice acting. And now honestly I think I'm glad I contracted that disease because as a result just one year later I think I've already found quite a bit of success with the hobby and I've also manage to grow a voice acting YouTube Channel to 70,000 subscribers (so combined both these can possible become a second career in the future, except one that's actually fun).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2017 19:40:52 GMT -8
It was on a whim. No, really, it was- I didn't grow up thinking I wanted to be an actor or a voice actor, taking a single Acting 101 class at community college notwithstanding.
What drew me into voice acting was because a new character had been released in the webcomic Homestuck, and on a whim, I uploaded a few videos and audio posts voicing that character. After getting a surprising amount of positive feedback, I got sucked into the world of comic dubbing, created a YouTube channel for that purpose, and the rest really was history.
I continued voice acting over the years because I came to love it, and I made the decision last December to go professional, but like I said, I originally started purely to see what would happen, and I had no idea what would transpire or what any of it would lead to.
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Post by Jacob Allen VO on Jun 14, 2017 11:49:57 GMT -8
I was always interested in doing machinima with my friends since they got me into some older Halo machinima series in high school. (not Blue vs Red) Never really came to fruition but as I grew past high school days I started getting compliments on my voice. Just my casual speaking voice. So I started pursuing things with it like casting and for years I've just not had the confidence or equipment to really pursue Voice Acting but here I am now.
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Post by mr on Jun 16, 2017 20:12:58 GMT -8
I don't really remember when I started doing it. I just remember I was a child at the time. I believe it was when I first found out (somewhere around the tender age of 5?) that 1 guy was responsible for the majority of my favorite Looney Tunes characters. So I started to play around with my voice. Later, when video games started getting voice overs, I was floored, and determined I was gonna get into a video game. I believe it was in between finding out about Mel Blanc and video game voice overs that I was introduced to Michael Winslow of Police Academy fame. Yet another thing I was like "I'm gonna do that." In any case, I was always performing little improved skits for friends and family, even some strangers sometimes (such as when people are bored in a doctor's waiting room, this was before smart phones were a thing).
I think I always wanted to be a voice actor, somewhere. Mostly because I always love finding out what my larynx can do. Over the years I've managed to expand my range considerably, develop "vocal characters", even managed to start developing a distinctly female voice even though I can't access it all the time thanks to my damn allergies (Never come to Sacramento CA if you have allergies, and if you don't you'll get them in about 3 to 5 years). I only recently decided to start pursuing it as a primary career choice when my novel writing fell through (apparently my current living situation + some psychological disorders = bouts of hypergraphia but never finish before depression & block return). Currently majoring in Theatre/Film, doing some stage plays, some extra & background work in local student & short films. Never really wanted to be on film or on stage, mostly due to a lack of self confidence and poor self body image, but I'm no longer opposed to the idea, lol.
Currently working on attaining enough money to get a good enough booth for professional home recording, until then I'm using a makeshift contraption of furniture grade PVC piping and acoustic foam-stuffed blankets, which so far appears to get the job done for Youtube quality content.
TL;DR: Been playing around with my voice and vocal characters since I was around 5 years old, half-hearted determinations during pre-teen and early teenage years, finally decided at 15 since I'm apparently good at it (even strangers found it entertaining) I might as well make it one of my careers (the other was being novelist). Recently shifted focus from writing to acting, working on getting gear for "professional quality".
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Post by Dylan Karlsson on Jul 12, 2017 16:51:20 GMT -8
People kept telling me as I grew up that either; A. I was too loud B. I had a great voice for radio/announcing I always thought the idea of being on the radio was cool, and I loved making voices since I was 5 years old when I got an N64. When I was in middle and high school, I started taking a lot of classes in acting and music. Next thing I knew, I was in college for performing and was making plans to become an actor. About a year ago, I decided I wanted to pursue voice acting as a career thing, and now I am here!
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Post by spearcarrier on Aug 9, 2017 1:27:58 GMT -8
When I was five years old, I would organize my neighborhood friends into acting out plays in the front yard. I used to tell every adult to please come to see my play. They all nodded and humored the little girl, who was actually very very serious about being an actress. She didn't even know that's what she wanted to be. She just knew she really loved to perform.
Life is life, though, and I had a mother who discouraged acting. You see, such things were in the family already and she disapproved of me doing the things my grandmother/distant cousin/father's former friends/aliens from outerspace had done. I did manage to get into a high school play and do some things over the years, but like I said life is life.
Enter Darkwing Duck. I will leave that statement right there, unless you want me to gush about DW for a very very long time.
Years later, enter Cat Dog which I never really got into. But one day while an episode was playing on the television and I, a young mother, was halfway watching with the kids I suddenly realized... wait a minute. I know that voice. I KNOW THAT VOICE!
And thus the discovery of the concept of voice acting and the existence of Jim Cummings was born.
But it's been a long road, because getting into it depended on being able to have time, money for equipment, etc. My kids are grown now and where I've only been able to dabble in my dreams for my entire life, I'm finally able to turn my heel and get serious. I'm being slow about it because, well, life is life and there are some things I still have to dump but I'm on my way. The best part is I'm all grown up now and my mommy can't stop me. Mwahahahaha.
Let's get characterized.
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