My friend Anthony Mendez is quite a few years younger than me, but much of the time he’s way ahead of me on the voiceover maturity scale. As Exhibit A is point you to his recent blog post Don’t Mind Your Business. There’s nothing wrong with being serious about your business as a voice actor, but don’t allow the focus on business to get ahead of being a superb voice actor. You have to be able to deliver the goods once you’ve booked the work.
In my inbox today from my friend and manager, Stacey Stahl:
Too blessed to be stressed.
— Bumper Sticker
Nancy Wolfson and Anna Vocino have been doing a superb series of teleseminars for about 3 years now. I’ve been there for every one of them and each has been worth way more than the price of admission. Now comes an opportunity to dig into the topic of voiceover for animation with not only Nancy and Anna, but alsothe amzingly talented Richard Horvitz.
One look at his website and you’ll see why Richard is the guy who can give you the no-BS inside Animation scoop. He’s going to answer as many questions as he can in 90 minutes, with a promise to do a Part II in the not so distant future.
Exactly and only the Animation Voice Over info that YOU WANT TO KNOW.
Beware: some unpopular realities (better ya know now).
Behold: lots of encouraging truths!
Some of the great questions all ready submitted:
I do a lot of funny voices, shouldn’t I be doing animation??
Are there really only 10 people who do every animation job out there? I’m really good, so how can I break in??
Do I still need an agent? An animation demo? Improv comedy or acting classes? An interesting voice???
How do I get cast in the next Pixar film when celebrities take all the roles?
Seriously, how much money is there in animation?
This animation thing seems like a tough nut to crack, so tell me the action steps I can take NOW to get my animation career going!
This teleseminar taking place at 6:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 PM Eastern on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Sign up now at Nancy and Anna’s site.
Marice Tobias is holding a workshop which I can’t attend even if I want to. The reason is because only women get to be there. Here are the details, right from Marice. If you’re a working pro voice talent and a woman, consider yourself invited. But decide quickly. This will fill up fast.
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In response to a number of requests, we presenting the first in a few series of seminars that focus specifically on Signature Reads and what gets in the way of playing full out. The unique experience of professional woman in the Industry as well as the Culture is the theme of the weekend, but the perspective of Possibility and Potential sents the tone for what we plan to be a paradign-shifting expereince for all.
New and cogent processes will give attendees tangible tools with which to work and thrive in the increasingly isolating and often anonymous environment of the day-to-day.
The structure of the weekend is a departure. Group sessions will zero in on Point of View and Delivery in a conference-room setting. The timeframe is also different in tha tthere will be an evening session so time can be spent out and about, enjoying or rejuvenating along with some fun surprises!
Saturday and Sunday, February 6 and 7, 2010 (Super Bowl Weekend) in Santa Fe, NM at The Inn on the Alameda. Special group rates of $100 to $150 per night have been arranged. Contact Stacey Stahl at 503-246-2239 or stacey@creativeentertainmentmanagement.com to reserve your place.
Jennifer Vaughn provides a detailed and very specific look at her experiences and income from both Voices.com and Voice123.com last year in an article on VoiceOverXtra. Thank you, John Florian, for emailing me about this well written and insightful article.
From my friend and manager Stacey Stahl comes today’s quote:
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My friend Janet Ault is featured on VoiceOverXtra with a great story of how she turned a newspaper article into a voiceover job, in fact an on-going series of voiceover jobs. Good for you, Janet! And thank you for encouraging everyone to look for work in all kinds of places.
With thanks to my friend Andi Arndt for sending me the link, check out the excellent article on a healthy voice at the Theatre Communications Group site. The article is focused on singing, but the tips are valuable for those of us in voice acting, too.
My friend Charlie Glaize is a clever man. Exhibit A is his latest video.
Charlie is one of my mentors and a truly fine voice actor and an even finer human being. Thanks for the video Charlie!
My friend Justin Barrett posted this video link on the VO-BB. I just had to share it with you, too.
It does sort of have to do with voiceover, since many of the samples come from the voice acting in Up!, one of my favorite movies of 2009.
My friend Ken Vuncannon emails with a link to this superb article from Fame Foundry “10 Resolutions for Success in 2010 and Beyond.”
Roger King, El Presidente of PN Agency in Canada, blogs about his Resolutions as a Voice Talent Agent.
From my manager and friend Stacey Stahl comes this quote:
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year.
It is that we should have a new soul.
— G. K. Chesterton
I just about never make New Year’s Resolutions, but John Florian asked me for a few for VoiceOverXtra, so I obliged. So did several of my friends and fellow voice actors. If you’d like to see what we wrote, check out Take One, here. For more, visit Take Two, here.
My friend Jane Ingalls emails with a note about an article in the Washington Post a couple of days ago, another look at the new genre (a mash-up of video and text) called the vook.
My friend Anthony Mendez provides a very cool demo of how to not only how to set up a demo player, but also an auto download of the file.
Very cool Anthony. Thank you.
Bob Noble‘s article at VoiceOverXtra on making a New Year’s REVOLUTION is well worth a few minutes of your time. (And thank you John Florian for the email alert about this article.)
