EDITOR’S NOTE: Voice-Over for anime and video games has long been a speciality of MVO: The Voice-Over Guys’ BRAD VENABLE. While well-respected and sought after for his commercial and narration work, character voice work has been one of Brad’s passions for many years. For “Inside The Voice-Over Booth”, Brad shares how his creativity during an in studio re-write session, led to voice-over gold for the production.
One of my favorite moments in a session was an anime ADR session at FUNimation. I was in for a session for ATTACK ON TITAN, which is the new must-watch show, and my character is basically all talk and cowers at the first sign of danger. Think Bill Paxton in Aliens.
So Mike McFarland, the shows ADR director, is rewriting a line that didn’t originally match the animation, and we joke about the Aliens parallel, and so he writes the line as, “that’s it, kaput, game over!”
It was dead silence in my headphones after I did the line, and I turned my head to see what was wrong, and there’s Mike with his head thrown back, laughing so uncontrollably that he forgot to hit the talkback.
It was like an album’s liner note in that moment! A real fun shared moment that you just had to be there to get.