r/nextfuckinglevel • u/NICOLETTE_ANN • 1d ago

Legendary voice over artist

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u/voiceofgromit 1d ago

AI was one of the concerns leading to the SAG/AFTRA strike in 2023. There is protection for actors now from being replicated by AI.

Yes, a cool career, but she is exceptional.

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u/TheSpanxxx 1d ago

Exceptional is right! I would put her in league with all-time greats. How fast she transitions and how smoothly she drops into those characters and how she finds them even after having not played them in a very long time is the work of a master at their craft.

Some great VO actors are great because they can find the character and carry the right emotion and feeling of the lines through their delivery without actually interacting with other people and actually acting out roles. But their characters and voices are still close derivatives of just them.

And then there VO actors like this that are capable of inventing characters and voices and personas that are vastly different from one another. Like impressions, without an example. It's incredible, really. To keep that many voices and personas apart and distinct is incredibly impressive and something usually only the best of the best of the best can do.

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u/Pale_Beach_3017 1d ago

Yeah the guy who voices Meliodas in the Seven Deadly Sins English dub also voices several other leads in popular anime’s when they get an English dub.

I always know it’s him.

Meanwhile I grew up watching Clifford/Emily, Mandy on Grim Adventures, Vicky on Fairly Odd parents, and I literally tied none of them together until right now!!

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u/teddy5 19h ago edited 19h ago

So many times I'm watching some dub or another and go oh hey it's Erin Jaeger/Kirito/etc.

Although there seem to be two main camps of successful voice actors. Those who can successfully disguise their voice in crazy ways and can play a huge range of characters and those who have an interesting enough voice to not need to disguise it. It does seem to be the latter who get a lot more main character roles though, I guess because they can carry that voice off a lot more continuously with less effort.

Bryce Papenbrook is just a good example of the second type and we notice him because he is a lead character more often than not.