That trick is something I do often! Most of my character's voices are based on characters from animations I love. Mainly Epithet Erased and Yu-gi-oh, but still. The fact you've a solid 50 voices in stock is a miracle. I have, like, 10 off the bat? Give or take. But hey, thanks for the advice, I'll keep that in mind! I'll start trying to find a voice for Bea, and maybe my up and coming character, Risk.
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"I don't always do things right, and I don't always do things smart, and I don't always do a character voice, but whatever I do, I find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that's all you got. It's looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people." -->Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone: Balance.
When watching a behind the scenes for Babylon 5, the actor who played Londo Milari said to get in character the first thing he'd say was "Mr. Garibaldi!" focusing on rolling his r's and dragging out the a's to have a sort of Eastern European aristocratic accent. Funny thing is after Peter J. (the actor) shared the tip, I found if I did the same, it is much easier for me to quote Londo and get into character.
When I want an over the top Connery, I always start with "Alex, I'd like Swords for $200".
Pavel Chekov is "Keptin, this is impossible!" for an Anton Yelchin inspired version.
"Anakin, only the sith deal in absolutes" ... I hope y'all can get this one.
"Thou Shall Not Pass" shouldn't need any explanation here. :)
Anyhow, I find a code phrase and say it softly before voicing a character. But I try to stick with characters in my general voice range, and the others I just forgo.
Alright! That's a neat story to tell, I'm intrigued. I'll work up something like Londo does, and I actually have a pretty good start on some of the phrases to use in order to get into the character's voice-
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"I don't always do things right, and I don't always do things smart, and I don't always do a character voice, but whatever I do, I find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that's all you got. It's looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people." -->Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone: Balance.
Voice acting. Character voices. H o w do y'all do em?
I've been watching Jello's 'Tip Of The Tongue' series for voice acting and a few other series. It got me wondering, how do y'all voice your characters? How do you prepare, come up with voices that fit, etc? I have my own process, which is usually just repeating a phrase in a specific accent before I speak as them, but how do ye lot do all this jazz? Just curious for answers.
Half the time I don't. I may say, you know the the character from tv show x? That is how this npc speaks.
All I can imagine in that scenario is just like "alright, cool, so I'm not gonna do the voice but yes, this mountain dwarf does indeed sound like Danny DeVito--"
But for real, that's fair nuff. Works out well too in the end, so that's neat.
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"I don't always do things right, and I don't always do things smart, and I don't always do a character voice, but whatever I do, I find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that's all you got. It's looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people." -->Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone: Balance.
I enjoy listening to stand up comedy (Trevor Noah and Gabriel Iglesias especially), and they do all sorts of voices and accents in their acts. I try to mimic them, and that's where 90% of character voices come from. Another thing I do is listen to character in movies/TV shows I like and try to exaggerate their voice. For example, I was doing this really edgy NPC villain, so I started with Darth Maul's voice from the Clone Wars animated series, and exaggerated it a ton, making it more whispery, and adding more anger.
That's a great idea! Though if I tried that, I'd end up trying to do the wacky voices that Russell Howard does. I mean, I literally learnt how to do Jimmy Carr's laugh by hearing it a bunch of times. In fairness though, Darth Maul is a great basis for any villain's voice, same goes for Palpatine-
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"I don't always do things right, and I don't always do things smart, and I don't always do a character voice, but whatever I do, I find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that's all you got. It's looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people." -->Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone: Balance.
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That trick is something I do often! Most of my character's voices are based on characters from animations I love. Mainly Epithet Erased and Yu-gi-oh, but still. The fact you've a solid 50 voices in stock is a miracle. I have, like, 10 off the bat? Give or take. But hey, thanks for the advice, I'll keep that in mind! I'll start trying to find a voice for Bea, and maybe my up and coming character, Risk.
"I don't always do things right, and I don't always do things smart, and I don't always do a character voice, but whatever I do, I find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that's all you got. It's looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people." -->Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone: Balance.
When watching a behind the scenes for Babylon 5, the actor who played Londo Milari said to get in character the first thing he'd say was "Mr. Garibaldi!" focusing on rolling his r's and dragging out the a's to have a sort of Eastern European aristocratic accent. Funny thing is after Peter J. (the actor) shared the tip, I found if I did the same, it is much easier for me to quote Londo and get into character.
When I want an over the top Connery, I always start with "Alex, I'd like Swords for $200".
Pavel Chekov is "Keptin, this is impossible!" for an Anton Yelchin inspired version.
"Anakin, only the sith deal in absolutes" ... I hope y'all can get this one.
"Thou Shall Not Pass" shouldn't need any explanation here. :)
Anyhow, I find a code phrase and say it softly before voicing a character. But I try to stick with characters in my general voice range, and the others I just forgo.
Alright! That's a neat story to tell, I'm intrigued. I'll work up something like Londo does, and I actually have a pretty good start on some of the phrases to use in order to get into the character's voice-
"I don't always do things right, and I don't always do things smart, and I don't always do a character voice, but whatever I do, I find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that's all you got. It's looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people." -->Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone: Balance.
Half the time I don't. I may say, you know the the character from tv show x? That is how this npc speaks.
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All I can imagine in that scenario is just like "alright, cool, so I'm not gonna do the voice but yes, this mountain dwarf does indeed sound like Danny DeVito--"
But for real, that's fair nuff. Works out well too in the end, so that's neat.
"I don't always do things right, and I don't always do things smart, and I don't always do a character voice, but whatever I do, I find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that's all you got. It's looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people." -->Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone: Balance.
I enjoy listening to stand up comedy (Trevor Noah and Gabriel Iglesias especially), and they do all sorts of voices and accents in their acts. I try to mimic them, and that's where 90% of character voices come from. Another thing I do is listen to character in movies/TV shows I like and try to exaggerate their voice. For example, I was doing this really edgy NPC villain, so I started with Darth Maul's voice from the Clone Wars animated series, and exaggerated it a ton, making it more whispery, and adding more anger.
That's a great idea! Though if I tried that, I'd end up trying to do the wacky voices that Russell Howard does. I mean, I literally learnt how to do Jimmy Carr's laugh by hearing it a bunch of times. In fairness though, Darth Maul is a great basis for any villain's voice, same goes for Palpatine-
"I don't always do things right, and I don't always do things smart, and I don't always do a character voice, but whatever I do, I find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that's all you got. It's looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people." -->Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone: Balance.