Is this the end for the traditional voice actor and being a career voice actor?

Is this the end for the traditional voice actor and being a career voice actor? Animated movies are full of celebrity voice actors, video games are starting to fill up with celebrity voice actors and even motion capture, and so is animated TV. They just all seem to be using regular actors with little voice acting experience, just using their regular voice now.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not a voice actor so I don't care.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nope. They'll always be cheaper or lower budget projects they can hire traditional VAs for. Also aren't most Voice Actors work from anime dubbing anyways?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      TV yes, anime movies tend to also use celebrities.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    An actor an actor anon, if you can't screen and voice act you're a shit actor.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    tara will just suck dick harder for roles

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I need Tara Strong to punish me

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Is this the end for the traditional voice actor and being a career voice actor?
      No.
      Because "screen celebs" don't pull people to projects.
      Good projects pull people to them.

      But with the way Hollywood is going I don't see any of them having work after voice AI gets perfected and them not hiring competent writers and just getting marketers in the room with esg rules lawyers and people they pick up from writing 101 courses at their local california community colleges.

      Their only hope is getting in with projects that have actual appeal to the audience and cultivating the VA celeb thing through social media.

      I've heard that I wouldn't evne need to have a role.
      Just complement her shoes and say she's the best harley quinn. The latter is true...but still.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The thing is, the voice acting industry was already fricked before actors started coming in. Eight prolific voice actors were already taking everyones roles and being cast in every game and animated show anyways, so it was already difficult for anyone outside of those eight to get a voice acting role anwyays that wasn't "additional voices"

    The eight being:
    >Tara Strong
    >Troy Baker
    >Nolan North
    >Steve Blum (The big four of the eight)
    >Laura Bailey
    >Yuri Lownethal
    >Johnny Yong Bosch
    >Jennifer Hale

    So the celebrities coming in aren't exactly taking anyone's roles except those eight people getting an overabundance of roles.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what, you think it wasn't always this way and that Mel Blanc, June Foray, and Jack Mercer didn't voice 80% of cartoons for decades?

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Invincible had a 10 million per episode budget and like 95% of that money went to the voice actors because some exec at amazon wanted to hire nothing but known actors for every role, lol.

    This is why Invincible looks like utter fricking garbage

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And they don't have the voice range that voice actors do. Every known physical actor who does a voice acting role just sounds like themselves.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The problem is less about their ability to do whacky voices and more that they don’t know how to emote for animation. What would be over-the-top for live action would work for animation since you’re helping imbue these drawings with an illusion of life.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >What would be over-the-top for live action would work for animation since you’re helping imbue these drawings with an illusion of life.
          I have to agree with this right here. Didn't animators shadow Robin Williams in the recording studio when Robin was voicing Genie? Robin was flailing his arms and being sporadic in his performance and the finished product definitely tried to capture that.
          Meanwhile, let's say, Chris Rock, gave the feel that VA was beneath him and he simply just talked in Madagascar.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I feel a lot of live action actors don't get it, they just assume "Oh its saying words in a booth? How hard can it be?"

            Tom Hanks as Woody is also one who says that in the booth he goes over the top and flails his arms everywhere.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It reminds me of how Will Smith and Jack Black looked more animated when they were doing their lines for Shark Tale than final product itself.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The problem is less about their ability to do whacky voices and more that they don’t know how to emote for animation. What would be over-the-top for live action would work for animation since you’re helping imbue these drawings with an illusion of life.

        >What would be over-the-top for live action would work for animation since you’re helping imbue these drawings with an illusion of life.
        I have to agree with this right here. Didn't animators shadow Robin Williams in the recording studio when Robin was voicing Genie? Robin was flailing his arms and being sporadic in his performance and the finished product definitely tried to capture that.
        Meanwhile, let's say, Chris Rock, gave the feel that VA was beneath him and he simply just talked in Madagascar.

        I feel a lot of live action actors don't get it, they just assume "Oh its saying words in a booth? How hard can it be?"

        Tom Hanks as Woody is also one who says that in the booth he goes over the top and flails his arms everywhere.

        This. In Afro Samurai, Samuel Jackson emotes way less than all the other voice actors. He doesn't do any of the little grunts or groans or tounge clicks and stuff everybody else does, so it results in his performance coming off lifeless compared to everybody else.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Samuel Jackson emotes way less than all the other voice actors.
          but I thought that was the point, didnt he put most of his effort into NinjaNinja anyways?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        > And they don't have the voice range that voice actors do
        So do most popular VAs at this point. They use the same 2-3 stock voices.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Invincible looks like utter fricking garbage
      filtered

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Lol all of Invincible’s VAs are TV actors or character actors at best lol.
      Look at DC animated projects, most of them also use TV actors for the last 32 years.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If it is the end I hope Tara turns to Onlyfans.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Simpsons has endless examples of celebrity guest stars who can't voice act. A very few like Meryl Streep actually tried but most just sounded like the example of Chris Rock mentioned above.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The one that sticks out for me with that is the episode where Lisa Kudrow guest voice acts the new girl in Lisa Simpson's class. She doesn't even attempt to sound like an 8 year old girl or however old Lisa is meant to be. She just sounds like Lisa Kudrow.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >She just sounds like Lisa Kudrow.
        Because Lisa Kudrow's voice is memorable and she was hired for her voice. That's the thing about voice acting, unique voices and performances have more value than range. Range is only good for budget reasons; being able to hire one VA for multiple roles.But a lot of VAs with range aren't good actors.
        Patrick Warburton has bad range, but is a fricking GREAT voice actor. Because he can make his same voice different characters

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Studios hire celebs to VA because they are already famous
    VA's have a reason to become "celebs" because it allows them to charge more
    Because of this VAs no longer are hired based on how good they are but how many fans they can get to watch
    All the current VAs are the best and have the most experience or at least have very stand-out voices like patrick warburton who is generally pretty good as well
    Its as simple as that
    The highest paid ones are just normal actors now so the quality of VA as a whole is dropping

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >All the current VAs are the best and have the most experience or at least have very stand-out voices like patrick warburton who is generally pretty good as well
      >Its as simple as that

      Patrick isn't a hot example. He started out as a normal actor, doing comedy shows like Seinfeld. He was considered a comedy tv actor when he was pulled into buzzlightyear with a pile of other tv comedy guys.

      Kind of funny disney hates that show so much when it probably saved a lot of those guys careers. They were able to transition to voice work right before a lot of humor became off limits do to social politics.

      Like what the frick would Diedrich Bader being do had he not made the jump to cartoon voices?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Like what the frick would Diedrich Bader being do had he not made the jump to cartoon voices?
        sitcoms, voice ads. It's pretty common for character actors like him to do animation, though.
        JK Simmons is a "celebrity" but not a big star, for example.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Is this the end for the traditional voice actor and being a career voice actor?

    when would you say it ended?

    Arguably the best Joker is done by Mark Hamill who was a normal actor before. Though kudos to him for learning how to do voices and actually giving the Joker a voice really different from his natural speaking voice.

    Gargoyles used most of the cast star trek TNG, Tim Curry, John Rhys-Davies and Matt Frewer. Buzzlightyear of Star Command used like 20 different comedians that were big enough to break into tv. Even the 80s transformers had a few real actors doing voices.

    So I don't know, what are you getting at? Sometimes studios pull actors from other things, sometimes they dont.

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