Post by Kyotosomo on Jun 5, 2017 17:14:39 GMT -8
The first thing I'm wondering is how relatively successful or unsuccessful of a first year I've had? Like where I've been under performing and where I've been over performing? I have literally no clue what most people accomplish in their first year as I've never really asked. The second thing I'm wondering is what I should be aiming to do in my second year as a voice actor, like what kind of goals I should be setting for myself next?
Starting with the bad first, I've been in pretty much nothing outside of YouTube. Besides a Visual Novel that's still in the works plus a handful of animations, there's nothing under my belt that would look extremely impressive and professional on a resume. I don't really know if that's normal though as while roles like that seem quite rare to me, that could maybe be because I'm not on any of the P2P sites (which for all I know could have plenty of roles like that). I don't really care that much about the money making aspect of voice acting, but I do care about getting to enjoy being in awesome stuff (and also what that would do for a resume). I'm wondering if I should be making more of an effort next year to actively search out projects like that and possibly join the P2P sites in order to do so? In addition another area of concern for me is whilst I've actually made quite a lot of connections with directors (especially among one specific community), I've only made a small handful of connections (meaningful ones that is) when it comes to other VAs. I've been struggling to find the time to sit down and get to know other VAs when most of my time is spent on college (trying to maintain good grades and a social life). I was also very recently wrapped up in some false rumors as well as some silly drama both of which I fear may make this an even harder task. I'm wondering how I should go about putting more time towards getting to know other VAs? In addition, there may also be other things I've yet to accomplish that I haven't even realized.
Moving onto what I think is the good, I've managed to voice act in over ten million views worth of content in the last year (excluding my own content which also generated over ten million views). I suspect that's way higher than average, but as said I have no clue. Considering I've been in around 125 videos this first year, that also means the average video I star in has almost ten thousand individual people watching it (and luckily the vast majority of my roles have been as main characters rather than supporting ones). Although it's also worth nothing 45% of my roles are in Minecraft Roleplays and 35% in comic dubs both of which I know not all VAs see as "quality" content (which I disagree with but I completely understand why). The remaining 20% of what I'm in is mostly original animations and Machinimas. In addition to all of this, when I started I also created a voice acting YouTube Channel on the side that along the way I was able to grow to 70,000 subscribers and I've actually really been able to use it to get a lot of great roles. In the last six months just about every single role I've had is from a director coming to me directly or me coming to a director directly (rather than me participating in an open audition).
Anyway, I'm just wondering how I've done so far and what I should work on doing next? Any advice would be greatly appreciated ^-^!
Starting with the bad first, I've been in pretty much nothing outside of YouTube. Besides a Visual Novel that's still in the works plus a handful of animations, there's nothing under my belt that would look extremely impressive and professional on a resume. I don't really know if that's normal though as while roles like that seem quite rare to me, that could maybe be because I'm not on any of the P2P sites (which for all I know could have plenty of roles like that). I don't really care that much about the money making aspect of voice acting, but I do care about getting to enjoy being in awesome stuff (and also what that would do for a resume). I'm wondering if I should be making more of an effort next year to actively search out projects like that and possibly join the P2P sites in order to do so? In addition another area of concern for me is whilst I've actually made quite a lot of connections with directors (especially among one specific community), I've only made a small handful of connections (meaningful ones that is) when it comes to other VAs. I've been struggling to find the time to sit down and get to know other VAs when most of my time is spent on college (trying to maintain good grades and a social life). I was also very recently wrapped up in some false rumors as well as some silly drama both of which I fear may make this an even harder task. I'm wondering how I should go about putting more time towards getting to know other VAs? In addition, there may also be other things I've yet to accomplish that I haven't even realized.
Moving onto what I think is the good, I've managed to voice act in over ten million views worth of content in the last year (excluding my own content which also generated over ten million views). I suspect that's way higher than average, but as said I have no clue. Considering I've been in around 125 videos this first year, that also means the average video I star in has almost ten thousand individual people watching it (and luckily the vast majority of my roles have been as main characters rather than supporting ones). Although it's also worth nothing 45% of my roles are in Minecraft Roleplays and 35% in comic dubs both of which I know not all VAs see as "quality" content (which I disagree with but I completely understand why). The remaining 20% of what I'm in is mostly original animations and Machinimas. In addition to all of this, when I started I also created a voice acting YouTube Channel on the side that along the way I was able to grow to 70,000 subscribers and I've actually really been able to use it to get a lot of great roles. In the last six months just about every single role I've had is from a director coming to me directly or me coming to a director directly (rather than me participating in an open audition).
Anyway, I'm just wondering how I've done so far and what I should work on doing next? Any advice would be greatly appreciated ^-^!