Let’s clear something up real quick: It’s not the voice. It’s the why behind the voice. Lots of actors can SOUND the same. Only one FEELS alive. 🎭 Character lives in the details: • Motivation — what do they want right now? • Who are they talking to? • Quirks — the oddly specific stuff • Emotional truth — even comedy needs it • Subtlety — the pause, the breath, the choice you don’t overplay 🐱 Hello kittie moment: Hello Kitty doesn’t even talk… and yet she has more personality than half the auditions out there. 😌 Why? Intention. Presence. Emotional clarity. (If Hello Kitty did have a voice, you know she’d have boundaries & inflection and personality & an objective.) 🎭 Character Lab: Share ONE character you’ve voiced (or are building) and ONE intentional choice you made that gave them LIFE! Maybe it was: • A flaw you leaned into • A disease or speech impediment • A personal reference you emulated • A moment you did less and it finally worked No flexing. No gatekeeping. This space is about process over perfection. Let’s borrow each other’s magic and build better characters together. 👇 Drop your story below. Hear kittie kittie. 🐾🎧

“THIS” is insight: Flat usually means your intent is missing, not your volume or the projection…BREATHE, determine what your intention is, what the brief backstory entails and what you believe casting is listening for before you hit record. Comment “INTENT” below, for me to respond with viable practice prompts.

Who is interested in showing up on a schedule we decide collectively to work out our animation antics?? Workout groups are are an insanely productive & fun way to loosen up, lean into the vulnerability of acting & learn from each other!!! Cartoons, video games, anime!?! Oh MY! 😆

Meet Bob Bergen aka Porkey Pig. He’s been doing porky Pig along with hundreds more for over 30 years. Bob is so talented and skilled at “building” voices that Vanity Fair interviewed him in this video to show us his DOPE process. Struggling to find a voice that fits the role you’re auditioning for? Bob has some really great tips & tricks (ones I use and encourage my students to use all the time!) that will help you create the voice you feel most comfortable with based on the illustration casting provided for you. LINK 🔗: https://youtu.be/3okv1Ay7E0o?si=LWCx2qP46a5JYwgb

Here are 3 mistakes killing your voice over growth (and how to fix them) 1. Not BECOMING what you say you wanna be. Watch cartoons, YouTube interview videos with VO actors, read articles on the genre, learn THE GREATS in the biz. 2. Not creating a roster. You always need to show range, so create a 6 year old little boy voice, an 80 year old man voice, a smart mouthed teenager voice, a monster, a gnat and an announcer on the loudspeaker @ Wal-Mart. 3. Not drinking enough water & practicing. Drink water water water water and then some more WATER! (Sometimes with lemon 🍋). How do you know if you sound how you are aiming to sound if you don’t say it out loud? You aspire to be an audio book VO? Read out loud for an entire hour! If you are bored, distracted, irritated or just plain not into it, this genre is probably NOT for you. That’s the only way to find out!!!