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Would you want to be the bad guy, the one everyone loves to hate? Voice
actor Tristan MacAvery said yes - which might explain why he's usually
the villan in the ADV Films anime dubs."It's fun to explore an evil character
because you never know where you're going," said MacAvery at a Neko-Con
Saturday panel. He worries about actors who turn out flat performance because
the view a voice job just as another line on a resume. "You're not an office
tem. In this business you do one project at a time - and it better be the
best project," he said. |
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Michael "Crusher Joe" Brady defends his profession against those actors
who are just looking for a paycheck. It takes a special kind of actor for
anime dubbing, he said, someone who can bring too much intensity to a part.
"You want performers who can go beyond a certain point," said Brady. "It's
easier to rein them in than to push them to a higher level." |
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Matt Greenfield of ADV Films seems to spend time either at anime cons
or recording studios, handling dub production. He's especially pleased
with the new Ruin Explorers series because "Everyone has a story arc and
they're always changing, which is amazing in a four-episode anime." Greenfield
shared some of the crazy stories from dubbing sessions, escpecially among
the actress who play Kei and Yuri in Dirty Pair Flash. ADV Films keeps
props in their recording booths to help the actors get in the spirit of
their roles, and Sue Ulu and Kim Sevier "...were running around, screaming
and yelling at each other with (prop) guns, never looking at each other
but looking at the screen." |
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Anime voice actors have to provide a stirring rendition of their role
- and incidentals such as the grunts and groans that their characters generate
during energetic scenes. Toshifumi Yoshida of Viz Communications, who produces
some of the company's videos, told the story of an actor who gave brilliant
performances until it was time for him to make incidental noises for fight
scenes. "His audition was great, but he couldn't `fight,'" Yoshida said. |
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