Play the right characters and you'll also be surrounded by fans at anime conventions.
Kirby Morrow has played Trowa Barton in Gundam Wing, Michaelangelo in Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles and Van in Vision of Escaflowne. Van was his favorite,
Morrow told fans at an Anime Boston panel, adding "It was a really good series
before it got destroyed by Fox." The current show that fascinates Morrow
is Project Arms, although he seems to be the type of actors who's always
looking ahead to a new project. "I haven't done many cutesy roles - Japanese
animation usually is serious in a cutesy way." Morrow likes shows with a
variety of action and humor, such as the Dragon Ball Z series where he was
one of the voices of Goku. "There's serious fighting then you're being dorky
and funny. Goku was fun - he'll be fighting, then he'll be scared of his
wife."
"It's nice when you have characters that are crazy and funky and have outstanding
traits," Morrow told Boston fans. It takes experience to be able to convincingly
interpret those characters, and Morrow got that experience through theater
school and a couple of years of standup comedy. Add some Shakespeare on stage
and some live action work, and Morrow was ready to try out for voice work,
getting a role in one of the many variations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Next came his Gundam Wing role, and "...the snowflake turned to a blizzard.
Now I'm trapped in anime hell."
That voice work can be tougher than live action acting because a performer
can't use facial expressions to get the point across, "Sometimes it works
better than others," Morrow mentioned. The biggest physical voice acting
challenge came when Morrow was part of the Dragon Ball Z dub cast, where
the lines were yelled as often as spoken. "Goku was very challenging because
he screamed all the time. Your voice got trashed after a while. It was hard
to keep a healthy voice, as well as doing other shows at the same time."
Morrow learned to perform the long super screams through breathing exercises
that helped him yell for a long time...but that didn't guarantee that he
didn't have to do multiple takes of those difficult scenes.
Play the right characters and you'll also be surrounded by fans at anime conventions.
Kirby Morrow has played Trowa Barton in Gundam Wing, Michaelangelo in Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles and Van in Vision of Escaflowne. Van was his favorite,
Morrow told fans at an Anime Boston panel, adding "It was a really good series
before it got destroyed by Fox." The current show that fascinates Morrow
is Project Arms, although he seems to be the type of actors who's always
looking ahead to a new project. "I haven't done many cutesy roles - Japanese
animation usually is serious in a cutesy way." Morrow likes shows with a
variety of action and humor, such as the Dragon Ball Z series where he was
one of the voices of Goku. "There's serious fighting then you're being dorky
and funny. Goku was fun - he'll be fighting, then he'll be scared of his
wife."
"It's nice when you have characters that are crazy and funky and have outstanding
traits," Morrow told Boston fans. It takes experience to be able to convincingly
interpret those characters, and Morrow got that experience through theater
school and a couple of years of standup comedy. Add some Shakespeare on stage
and some live action work, and Morrow was ready to try out for voice work,
getting a role in one of the many variations of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Next came his Gundam Wing role, and "...the snowflake turned to a blizzard.
Now I'm trapped in anime hell."
That voice work can be tougher than live action acting because a performer
can't use facial expressions to get the point across, "Sometimes it works
better than others," Morrow mentioned. The biggest physical voice acting
challenge came when Morrow was part of the Dragon Ball Z dub cast, where
the lines were yelled as often as spoken. "Goku was very challenging because
he screamed all the time. Your voice got trashed after a while. It was hard
to keep a healthy voice, as well as doing other shows at the same time."
Morrow learned to perform the long super screams through breathing exercises
that helped him yell for a long time...but that didn't guarantee that he
didn't have to do multiple takes of those difficult scenes.
