{"id":42,"date":"2012-11-05T03:13:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T03:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2013-07-25T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:40:33","slug":"tips-for-developing-your-characteranimation-voiceover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceovergurus.com\/guru_blog\/tips-for-developing-your-characteranimation-voiceover\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Developing Your Character\/Animation Voice(over)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a voice over tip for you that will turn the most ordinary voice into something else:\u00a0 try something new.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, it is that simple.\u00a0 How else will you find a new angle on your very human sound unless you try to do something different with it? \u00a0There are many ways to develop your \u201ccharacter\u201d of course, and we are going to focus on a technical strategy this time as opposed to a more organic acting method like the one I discuss in an earlier article about <\/span><\/span><\/span>voiceover character commitment<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Creating a character can be a left brain or right brain activity.\u00a0 Let\u2019s focus on the left brain today.\u00a0 The best way to try and experiment with your voice is to do some simple voiceover exercises.\u00a0 They put you in touch with the different ways that your brain and mouth work together to come up with sounds.\u00a0 For example \u2013 tell your brain to start talking out of the side of your mouth and you instantly sound sarcastic, mumbled, or perhaps like a secret agent, depending on your execution of the exercise.\u00a0 One simple change like that and you have adjusted your normal way of \u201cbeing.\u201d\u00a0 You are one step closer to a character and one further step away from sounding like Jane or Bob.\u00a0 Perhaps it\u2019s a simple as raising or lowering your register.\u00a0 Perhaps you try stuttering, or laughing at your own jokes, or saying \u201cright?\u201d after every statement of fact.\u00a0 All these little things will eventually become tools for coming up with an original character who has his or her own set of quirks, just like the characters we know and love already.\u00a0 Start watching cartoons and noticing the things that these characters do.\u00a0 Try and notice the little nuances in their speech \u2013 not so much what they say but how they say it.\u00a0 How high, how low, how hard or soft, how sweet or sinister, where the inflections are being places, etc\u2026.\u00a0 Now play with your own possibilities.\u00a0 The voice actress Connie Terwilliger has come up with some <\/span><\/span><\/span>great voiceover exercises<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> on her site that I think can be very useful for developing your own ideas for an original voice.\u00a0 Their intentions might be more for warm-up or control, but you will notice as you are doing them that you are also being invited to play with, and discover, your own unique voiceover potential.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a voice over tip for you that will turn the most ordinary voice into something else:\u00a0 try something new.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, it is that simple.\u00a0 How else will you find a new angle on your very human sound unless you try to do something different with it? \u00a0There are many ways to develop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-over-gurus-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t