Anime Voice Acting?

Question

O.K, I want to be an anime voice actress, but my mom doesn't know anything about it and niether do I. We live in a small town with no drama classes at school and certainly no where to audition near by.I was wandering if anyone new any places I could get information on where to audition and things.What would realy help is a place where it tells the shows, the times, the shows, and information on the audtions.What I realy need is just information about the certain auditons.Thanks so much.

Answer 1

First off when you are auditioning for voice overs- you don't audition at a casting call unless invited... mostly you need to send a promo tape to the casting offices of those corporations. funanimations is located in Texas, there are quite a number of animation companies who do contract casting calls for voice over actors.

The things they loo for is uniqueness of the voice, ability to be flexible with the voice and to be extremely creative in characterization with the voice.

I would suggest you seek out not only acting classes perhaps at a local community college, university, or community center- but find somewhere that you can study Fitzmaurice voice technique. You also need to study the international phonetic alphabet, I would suggest Edith Skinner- but you need to learn Standard American English. Pick up some books by Joan Melton, Patsy Rodenburg... You still need to understand the essential principles of acting- Hagan, Addler, Micheal Chekov, Stanislavski, and so forth...

So you might have to either find a studio to take classes, or get a degree in theater arts and study it in university.

Answer 2

Most anime is dubbed in Japan by English speakers.

If you'd like to be a regular animation voice actor, you'll need some training before auditioning. And most auditions take place in LA.

I don't mean to be less than encouraging, but them's the facts, ma'am.

To cheer you up, here's some tremendously awful (and funny) anime dubs, and hope for the future of American dubbing talent:

http://www.audioatrocities.com/

Answer 3

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Answer 4

arent most of the shows made in like Japan or something? my guess is that u need to go to a big city if u want to find auditions.

Answer 5

start off by trying out for small stuff (small-time video game companies) then work your way up........................ truly, i dont know........ read something about Phil LaMarr