My Voice Animation Demo Reel!

[Rabids]

Hey ya'll! I'm an online voice actor working my way up there! ^_^

I'm new here too xD

Anyways, check out my voice demo and tell me what you think!

http://media.putfile.com/Animation-Demo-Reel-80


And my singing demo!

http://media.putfile.com/Aladin--One-Jump-Ahead

[lupercal]

Ok, I've only listened to the voiceover reel: I'm still on dial-up.

As to why you should take any notice of me; I wrote and produced five radio serials, as well as countless sketches, directed the voice actors, and have done prominent voice parts myself in all those serials.

First of all, I'm very impressed. If that's all you, you have a lot of natural ability, and I wish you the best.

My advice: work on your accents. Most of the voices are recognisably the same. You won't get voiceover work by sounding like yourself all the time.

Second - and I sense you're getting into this anyway (plus it's going to sound like a tired old cliche) - get into the character. The best voice actors I've directed are people who just become the character. It doesn't even matter all that much if their version of the character is the same as mine. What matters is that they are consistent; that they.... feel as if they own the character. That they stop thinking about 'how would character X say line Y, and that they just automatically do it, because they know. Because that character has become part of them, and they instinctively know how they would speak. I would let people improvise if it sounded in character, and otherwise I was a bastard about sticking to the script.

You have good diction and a good acting voice. Concentrate on becoming the character, and developing a repertoire. That sounds corny, but I think it's true.

Loop

BTW, I never considered myself a good voice actor, in the sense that I wasn't flexible enough - however I was very 'natural' at the characters I could do. I could outshine the other actors just by knowing my characters inside out, and not having to even think about my lines. But if you want to be a specialist voice actor, you need to have that naturalness PLUS that flexibility of character. I worked for years with a guy, my partner (professionally, I mean): I had the natural feel; he had the range. We would have been useless without each other. What YOU need is BOTH. It can be done. Those people are the greats, like La Marche.