Ok so this is an example of stuff related to real world voice stuff where I feel like voice actors have a secret Like completely leaving gender aside, Troy Baker doesn't sound like ANY character he has played when speaking just as himself.https://youtu.be/MFLtbCf4L60
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And I want to know how he, and most voice actors, do that. How do you transform your voice into a "character"? I may sound like a woman to people, but the difference between the woman I sound like and the woman I want to sound like is basically the same as Troy Baker vs Joel
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
As someone who's taken a lot of acting classes, it's one of those things that's more easily taught through practice than described in words, even at length I'm not one to buy into really mystical descriptions of acting but that much is basically true
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Ah, yet another thing I can blame the apocalyptic plague destroying America for me not doing It's really nice, you know, when you've got excuses for things that are hard to argue with, like the apocalyptic plague that makes it unsafe to be near any other human
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I mean like you can certainly make a list of things Baker does to transform his normal voice into his "Joel voice" - to convey that Joel is older, he has Joel speak in shorter sentences, his voice is pitched slightly deeper, there's less musicality and more monotone, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
And as an experienced actor Baker is certainly aware of all of these things and can add or subtract or adjust them if asked to by a director But you don't "build a character" usually by consciously picking and choosing all these little components and adding them up
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At least not nowadays The Method, as we call it, was about approaching this from the other direction, you get in touch with yourself and your "instrument" and get an intuitive sense how it authentically feels when you're in a different mental state and how your voice/body reacts
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And you use that as the "components" that you build the character from Like instead of saying Joel has a deeper pitch, a less varied tone, a more staccato delivery, etc, more likely you'd say he's "cold", he's "blunt", he's "detached", he's "closed off"
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One of the "magic tricks" of voice acting is that it is to a big degree just acting The whole thing where you can "hear a smile" in someone's voice Like you *can* fake that and talk in a "smiling voice" without smiling with your face but it's hard
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If you watch video of VAs in the booth they do act with their whole face and body as much as they're able, when you get mad you let your face frown and your body tense and your fists ball up It's all part of making it as "real" as possible without conscious effort
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Ideally when you record something you're standing, or if you have to sit you're sitting comfortably with a lot of room to move and gesture, so you can put as much of your body in your performance as possible
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