| What do you wear when you're acting out your fantasies? An anime character's
costume? A favorite shirt or blouse? Nothing at all? If you believe some
of the voice actors who appeared at an A-Kon panel on Saturday, you have
to get naked to get convincing in an anime dub. On the panel were (left
to right) Tiffany Grant, Brett Weaver, Jessica Calvello, Amy Howard and
Tom Tweedy. |
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| The "getting naked" talk came from Calvello, who has voiced Cutey Honey.
It started when the actors talked about the physical gyrations they went
through in the recording booth to generate a convincing performance. Calvello
joked that when her character was naked and in pain, she had to feel what
the character was feeling - so she got naked too (her clothes stayed on,
but the feeling was still there, she said). The pain came from pulling
her hair, to which Matt Greenfield of ADV Films, also in the room, said
he had to keep Calvello from pulling all of her hair out during that recording
session. |
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| As far as we could tell, Brett Weaver keeps his clothes on in the booth,
although his big character, Carrot Glace in Sorcerer Hunters, tries to
get his clothes off with other women in that series. Rather, Weaver told
about the benefits and pitfall of trying to use the original voice acting
as a guide to his performance. The emotions expressed as great to listen
to, he said, but the voice range can be a problem. As in grand opera, male
anime heroes tend to have tenor voices, and his is pitched far lower at
a bass-baritone. |
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| Celebrating the first anniversary of her fan-produced Eva plug suit,
a memento of her role as Asuka, Grant said aspiring voice actors need to
be in the right place at the right time to get a role - literally in her
case, since she lives in Texas where ADV Films has their headquarters.
Some roles come from word of mouth, while others come from the newspaper
- where ADV has advertised casting calls as they expand their production
schedule. |
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