WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:01.500 --> 00:00:07.000 I got this, I got this, I am Thorax. *clears throat* 00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:13.500 *attempting to talk like Thorax* You'll never feel your love inside of me! Now I'm gonna attack you! Grrrrr 00:00:15.700 --> 00:00:16.720 How did that sound? 00:00:17.940 --> 00:00:22.480 Sorry, I'm lending my voice to a project. The person was sketchy on the details 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:27.840 but he said I sounded just like thorax and that I should play the character for his little animation. 00:00:28.420 --> 00:00:30.420 Honestly, I'm not too concerned. 00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:37.300 But, now that I am officially a voice actor that means I should do this. 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:48.300 What ain't that how this works? I put VA in my name and I'm considered a professional? That's what the community's doing. *laughs* 00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:51.420 Now let's talk about voice acting. 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:57.720 I don't have any specific problems with voice acting especially with the people who lend their voice talents to pony 00:00:57.720 --> 00:01:03.040 projects in order for them to bring our colored horse friends to life in a fun animated video. 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:09.140 The only thing I'm here to give these people is some helpful advice on how to improve their voice acting experience 00:01:09.140 --> 00:01:13.580 if they want to move forward on doing it for fun or take it as a professional career. 00:01:14.380 --> 00:01:19.619 You see back in 2015. I attended an acting and modeling agency for about seven months. 00:01:19.900 --> 00:01:25.220 I learned how to model and how to act in front of a camera and as a bonus voice acting. 00:01:25.580 --> 00:01:30.860 They gave me some tips and tricks on how to audition and how to change my voice without straining my vocal cords 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:35.940 so I could best fit the character and maintain a strong connection to get the best result out of my voice. 00:01:36.460 --> 00:01:38.800 It was definitely not worth the money I spent. 00:01:38.880 --> 00:01:40.900 But, hey I got a cool certificate out of it. 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:47.120 So if you plan on taking voice acting as a career in the future good luck to ya' because that 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:54.740 industry is so difficult to get into especially if you have no education to show for it. But, let's get back to the brony fandom. 00:01:58.060 --> 00:02:02.140 Just because you have a voice does not mean that you are actually a voice actor. 00:02:02.520 --> 00:02:09.240 Most girls can do a Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie impression no problem, just like how most guys can do a Big Mac impression. 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:13.460 But it takes someone who really knows what they're doing to perfect the character. 00:02:14.180 --> 00:02:22.600 I've seen a bunch of Let's Plays and reaction videos of brony youtubers sounding like the ponies of Equestria while they play or react to a quirky video game. 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:28.480 But there's one thing that most of these videos suffer from that makes them all fall flat on their face. 00:02:28.940 --> 00:02:37.620 They don't give me the illusion that they are that character. I mean could you ever imagine Fluttershy acting like this while playing a game? 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:46.940 *A ton of swearing as Fluttershy rages trying to play a video game* 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:51.020 That kind of takes you out of the illusion doesn't it? 00:02:52.920 --> 00:02:57.320 If you don't give us the illusion that you really are that pony it all falls flat. 00:02:57.700 --> 00:03:02.000 I don't care if you sound like my favorite pony but please act like them! 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:06.080 I'm looking at most of you who make Fluttershy plays and react videos! 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:16.120 Half of you just do the voice and don't even attempt to act like Fluttershy, but I guess if your audience is all eight year olds they'll eat up anything because *silly noises* my little pony's for kids! 00:03:17.140 --> 00:03:23.440 The one thing that annoys me the most is when people do MLP comic dubs. Now I understand why they do this 00:03:23.460 --> 00:03:28.530 as It's a very interesting way for you to mess around with your vocal range on playing different characters. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.740 But here's the one thing that I do ask from you. 00:03:32.140 --> 00:03:40.000 Before you do a comic dub please ask the original artist if you can use his or her work because if you're dub gets popular and someone decides to make an 00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:44.540 animation of it the original creator of the comic won't get any recognition for it. 00:03:45.480 --> 00:03:50.780 A lot of artists hate it when people dub their comics, so please don't be THAT person. 00:03:51.480 --> 00:03:53.900 Yeah, I'm talking about that guy don't be him. 00:03:56.180 --> 00:04:02.180 If you have a different voice and you don't think comic reading is the right way to go. Then try reading fan fictions 00:04:02.200 --> 00:04:07.320 and novels as they have a more calm and relaxed narrative that might suit you a lot better. 00:04:08.440 --> 00:04:15.200 Also, try to expand your voice with different characters and take some of their voices and mix them together so you can create your own 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:19.180 original voice to help you out if you ever try to do this as a career. 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:22.860 That way you're not copying voices, and you're also creating your own. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.620 Almost like that's what a voice actor is supposed to do! 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:30.800 *Fluttershy* Most of the voice actors that I like are the ones who... 00:04:30.900 --> 00:04:34.560 *Derpy/Muffins* ...can do pony voices but they master them so well... 00:04:34.660 --> 00:04:38.300 *Vinyl Scratch* ...compared to someone who can do a lot, remember... 00:04:38.640 --> 00:04:42.660 *Pinkie Pie* ...it's not about how many voices you can do. It's you can do well! 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:50.660 If you can voice one character and do it accurately then try singing as this fandom is amazing especially when it comes to pony covers! 00:04:50.900 --> 00:04:59.000 *epic Fluttershy singing* 00:04:59.300 --> 00:05:04.860 I don't know about you, but I would much rather hear ponies singing today's best music than the actual artists. 00:05:05.140 --> 00:05:08.240 I mean could you imagine Thorax singing Justin Bieber's 'Baby'? 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:20.200 *Thorax singing* Baby, baby, baby, oooooh! Like, baby, baby, baby, nooooo! Like baby, baby, baby oooooh! 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:25.640 The last piece of advice that I can actually give you is to make sure if you're going to do voice acting 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:30.620 please have a good microphone. I'm sorry, but if you're using a gaming headset 00:05:30.620 --> 00:05:32.560 no one is going to be able to take you seriously! 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:41.260 Hi, I'm here to audition for the character. Alright, but before you start may I ask what microphone you're gonna be using for this audition? 00:05:41.500 --> 00:05:44.740 Oh, I'm using my earbud microphone from my PS4, will that be a problem? 00:05:48.180 --> 00:05:51.540 Which reminds me! I need to see what else lending my voice to. 00:05:52.140 --> 00:05:57.020 What? How convenient! It was posted to do YouTube while I was making this video! 00:05:57.480 --> 00:05:58.420 Let's check it out 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:06.120 Spike, are you sure we should be doing this when Twilight's not home? 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:09.860 Twilight is out solving friendship problems and now we can experi- 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:21.000 Oh No! NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! *makes noises in disgust* 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:30.420 One other tip. Make sure you know what you're leaving your voice, too or else... You might just be voicing a porno! 00:06:31.220 --> 00:06:45.900 *EPIC DUBSTEP TO BABY BY JUSTIN BEIBER*