Welcome to A Comic Conversation! a new podcast brought to you by The Team at Distance NERDing!
Have you ever thought, dang if only i had a way to listen to an interview at a comic con that i missed even tho i had no way of being there? well think no further!!! Jahmez 5000 and Yung Phil of the Distance NERDing podcast thought the same thing and started recording their interviews for you, The NERDs, to listen to at home!!! You may be revisiting an interview that you attended and wanted to hear again, or maybe hearing it for the first time!! were here for you!!!
This weeks guest is none other than the amazing Elise Baughman! We get a chance to talk about her career, her interests, and the joy of voice acting! So sit back, Relax, and Enjoy a Comic Conversation!!!!
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[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_04]: How many of you grew up watching Dragon Ball?
[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_04]: I know I did, and this week's guest is part of that legacy of Saiyan power. It's time for this week's
[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: A COMIC CONVERSATION!
[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_04]: This week's guest is none other than the amazing Elise Baughman. We got a chance to talk about her career, her interests and the joy of voice acting.
[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_04]: So brush up on your anime knowledge, train for a martial arts tournament with your grandfather, and nerd out with the best. It's time for the next
[00:00:57] [SPEAKER_00]: COMIC CONVERSATION!
[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Ladies and gentlemen, our next guest has been a voice actress for some of the most iconic characters in anime, including Pan and Dragon Ball Z
[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_04]: and every Dragon Ball series and video game that has come out since then. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Elise Baughman!
[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_06]: I am so excited to be here, hi! It's great to see you all.
[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome!
[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_06]: And thank you for having me.
[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_03]: This is exciting!
[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_06]: What a pleasure!
[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Are you having a good day? Good comic?
[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, great con. This has been so much fun. I love it. How are y'all?
[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Alright, before we... Look at her! She's so excited.
[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I love the excitement.
[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_03]: She's my new favorite person.
[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Mine too.
[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry mom, wherever you are.
[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Do me a favor, keep your excitement up the entire time, okay?
[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_03]: I kind of want her to come up here and do this interview for me instead. She's so excited.
[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, while we're getting set up here, we have a segment on our podcast.
[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_03]: This is nerding. It's called Growing Up Geeky.
[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_03]: What is something you geeked out on when you were a kid?
[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh man, I should have listened earlier. What did I geek out on?
[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I geeked out on a lot. I geeked out on school. Does that count?
[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_03]: That would make you a nerd, but that's good because we are the Distance Nerding Podcast.
[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_03]: That just means you're one of us. That's all it is.
[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_06]: One of us. Weeba wabba, weeba wabba.
[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_06]: I liked to collect things. I liked sports. I don't know if that counts as geeking out.
[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_04]: No, that's totally cool.
[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_04]: The way that we kind of describe geeking and nerding is anything that you have a passion for.
[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Geeking out doesn't necessarily mean comics and movies and things like that.
[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_04]: It's just what's something you have a passion for?
[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_04]: What's something that you just kind of love and you geek out about it?
[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay. So a couple of things when I was young.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_06]: I did like school, oddly enough. So I geeked out over that.
[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_06]: I loved animation growing up.
[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't ever think I would be an actor, but I loved animation and I did love sports.
[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I played all the sports.
[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_06]: So those were three of the things that I really geeked out over.
[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_03]: That's awesome.
[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_03]: When did you get into acting, voice acting? Were you a kid? Were you older?
[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_06]: No, it was not when I was a kid.
[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_06]: So I was not like the other actors here who did kid...
[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I think I did an eighth grade church play and that was about it.
[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_06]: I majored in accounting.
[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I was working in corporate and then thought I am going to go from accounting to acting.
[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I took classes and started pursuing it and thought I'm going to see if I can do this.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_06]: The short story is I was doing on-camera acting first and then actually got into voice acting.
[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_06]: So ever since...
[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_06]: And then I quit my corporate job to give it a go,
[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_06]: but I have been doing on-camera acting and voice acting in Dallas and in LA ever since.
[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And so Pan from Dragon Ball GT, she came about two years into my acting career.
[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_06]: I feel very lucky because she was the first job that I booked.
[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_06]: And then I got into other anime shows and commercials and corporate and all the things.
[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a pretty major character.
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Can I adjust this?
[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_06]: As a voice actor you learn to always ask to adjust the mics.
[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_06]: I feel like it's very low and I'm sitting like this.
[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_04]: That's a pretty major character to land as your first job.
[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I feel pretty lucky, yes.
[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_06]: At first I went to my agent and I was doing on-camera acting.
[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank you.
[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_06]: And I said, you know, I want to do voice acting.
[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_06]: And she was like, oh, do you want to do voice acting?
[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_06]: We are going to talk about that because I am a voice over coach.
[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_06]: So I love talking about acting in general.
[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_06]: But I said, I want to do voice acting.
[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_06]: And she was like, okay, well you have not.
[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_06]: So let's get you prepared.
[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's have you take classes.
[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's get a voice over demo.
[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_06]: And since I majored in accounting and I am a nerd in many ways,
[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I make checklists.
[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_06]: So I made my little checklist.
[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I'm going to take some classes.
[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_06]: I am going to make my demo.
[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to talk to everybody I know because I'm not afraid to ask questions.
[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_06]: That's good.
[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_06]: So I asked everybody I knew.
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_06]: And I didn't know actors when I was starting.
[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_06]: So sometimes it was like, okay, so your sister's brother's uncle's daughter is an actor?
[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Can I talk to her?
[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Because I want to know about acting.
[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_06]: So that was kind of my story.
[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Was that in Dallas or?
[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I started, well when I quit my corporate job, I moved to LA for a couple of months.
[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Then started my career in Dallas.
[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_06]: And then I did go back out.
[00:05:59] [SPEAKER_06]: So I've been in LA and in Dallas as an actor.
[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Where are you from before that?
[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Louisiana.
[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, Louisiana.
[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_06]: So and then moved to Dallas after grad school.
[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_06]: So I have done accounting and grad school and corporate America into acting.
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_03]: So how did you get the role of Pan?
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_03]: So I heard this story.
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I watched one of your interviews and I was like, it's a really interesting story.
[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell us about how you got Pan?
[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_06]: So when I was going through my checklist and doing what my agent told me, I was also performing in an improv troupe.
[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_06]: And it is based on the Groundlings.
[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_06]: If you are familiar with the Groundlings in Los Angeles.
[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_06]: One of the founding members of the Groundlings started a similar program in Dallas.
[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_06]: And so after a performance one night, after a show, we went to dinner.
[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_06]: And there was like a couple of us from our troupe and a couple from a different troupe.
[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Mike McFarland happened to be there.
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_06]: If you're a Dragon Ball fan, you know he's Master Roshi.
[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_06]: And he also is a director in the Dragon Ball world.
[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I did not know about anime at the time.
[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_06]: But I had been an animation fan since I was little.
[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_06]: And they were talking about voicing these characters and I was like, how do I get an audition?
[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_06]: And so Mike got me the audition.
[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_06]: He didn't give me the job.
[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_06]: He got me the audition.
[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_06]: The story, I don't know if you heard this part.
[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_06]: So I have asthma and I get a bad bout of asthma about twice a year.
[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_06]: I was a little raspy and I was having asthma when I went to audition.
[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_06]: So Pan was, you know, Pan's grandpa and she's not raspy most of the time.
[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_06]: So I auditioned and had this raspy sound when I booked the job.
[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I was several episodes in going, they're going to fire me because I don't sound like my audition.
[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_06]: And then, you know, four or five episodes in, I'm like, OK, I think I got the job.
[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I think they're going to keep me.
[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_06]: But that's how it all started.
[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_03]: That's crazy.
[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's awesome.
[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to I love hearing about like voice acting and the behind the scenes stuff.
[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. So I love that you're here for this interview.
[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_03]: It's so cool. So can you give us a little bit of like maybe how you sounded like with the rasp and then?
[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, see, I don't even know if I can do the rasp.
[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_06]: The only time I have a rasp is when I get sick or when I am hoarse.
[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_06]: But so if so my favorite line from Pan is probably one you don't know.
[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_06]: But it's what I use to get back into the voice.
[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_06]: So it's you even said it earlier today.
[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Cheeseburgers, fries and blueberry pies.
[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_06]: So if I did it with the rasp, cheeseburgers, fries and blueberry pies.
[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_06]: That was probably even raspier than I did it when I auditioned.
[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, it's hard to recreate what you sound like when you're sick.
[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you.
[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_03]: They appreciate the rasp.
[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, good. Maybe I should do raspier characters more often.
[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_04]: That kind of sounds like an old lady from here on out, like any Dragon Ball game that you're in.
[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_04]: You start doing the raspy pan, start doing raspy pan.
[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I did do grandma pan, you know, GT. Yeah, exactly.
[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_03]: You know, sorry, I heard your raspy voice.
[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, I almost sounded like Andy McAfee. Oh, really?
[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Actually, you know what? You're not wrong.
[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_04]: I've heard Andy McAfee do voices like that too when she does Sarah.
[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Sarah from Lamb Before Time. Oh, really? Interesting.
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll have to listen. Yeah, we met her in Idaho.
[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, well, we met her at a couple places. Oh, that's right.
[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_03]: So great. Yeah, she's great. Okay.
[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_03]: So tell us about being pan. We'll get into voice acting.
[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_03]: I think somebody is going to want to learn about voice acting.
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes. Just so you guys know, if anybody has questions later on in the show,
[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_04]: that mic right there, just get your questions ready.
[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll let you guys know and you can ask her some questions.
[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_04]: You can ask Elise some questions.
[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Or if you want to pull your chair up to the microphone.
[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and just kind of have a conversation with Elise.
[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_04]: That'd be great, you know? Yeah, cool.
[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell us about getting into the character?
[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Like we heard the voice, raspy and regular voice.
[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell us about getting into the character of pan?
[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, I think it was, well, one, it was a long time ago.
[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_06]: But I remember it being pretty easy because I felt like she was feisty
[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_06]: and I loved that she fought a lot.
[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I think having done sports, I identified with the like ambitious
[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_06]: and the feistiness and that part of her.
[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_06]: But she also loved her family and had some soft moments as well.
[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_06]: And what is interesting is I, when I was younger,
[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_06]: always got made fun of because I had a higher voice.
[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_06]: And so then to do a kid's voice, that seemed natural and I loved it.
[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I love like, oh, I got made fun of this and now it's my job.
[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_06]: So it was easy to get into that character for me.
[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_06]: And I love it now.
[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_06]: And I'm very, you know, of course, when people ask,
[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_06]: what's your favorite character pan?
[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Because she's I love her as a character.
[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_06]: And then I'm sentimental about her since, you know, as I shared,
[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_06]: she launched me into voiceover and anime and so many other things
[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_06]: and now conventions that are so much fun.
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_04]: So she's feisty because of her mom.
[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_04]: One hundred percent. Her dad is way too calm.
[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_04]: For somebody who's supposed to be the strongest life.
[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, for somebody who's supposed to be like one of the strongest
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_04]: beings in the universe, he's surprisingly calm.
[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_06]: That's true. OK.
[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_06]: OK. They're so prepared. I love it.
[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to know about behind the scenes stuff.
[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Do you record in the same studio with people?
[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_03]: It seems like everybody has a different kind of story of like,
[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_03]: no, we are all separated or we started together.
[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_03]: What was your recording experience like on the show?
[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. So if you have seen behind the scenes for anime,
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_06]: then you may know that we just record by ourselves for anime.
[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_06]: And when when you record animation, sometimes you get to record as a group.
[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_06]: Like when I've done animation, we got to record as a group.
[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_06]: So when we were at Funimation, which was a different building
[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_06]: than they're in now, we would just record by ourselves
[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_06]: unless you're doing what's called walla, which is like extra work.
[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_06]: So they would have several people in at a time.
[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_06]: So when I was doing Pan, I would just go in and record for two hours at a time or four.
[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I think I may have had one six hour session.
[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_06]: You don't want to do that too often if you're doing a lot of the ha ha.
[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_06]: And so we would record now when we would see other actors is just in the hall like,
[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_06]: oh, Eric, you got a session. Good to see you. Yes.
[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_06]: And then we used to have a lot of cast parties.
[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_06]: So I feel like that's when we saw a lot of people.
[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_06]: I still have a shirt that I wear a lot that's got direction
[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_06]: that you would see in a script. It's like O slash M,
[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_06]: which is open mouth into cut.
[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_06]: So it would be like your mouth is open into the scene cutting.
[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_06]: So they kind of made this cute shirt for a Christmas party.
[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_06]: And I still love it.
[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_06]: And that was from the year that I voiced Pan and it somehow made it that long.
[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Next week on Dragon Ball Z. Oh, yes.
[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that sounds good. Kyle may need to be scared.
[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Here's take his narrator job.
[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_04]: There's a couple of you ever listen to our show.
[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_04]: There's a couple of voice over actors that can give some guys a run for their money.
[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_04]: We got fours on our show that does a perfect master Roshi.
[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, really? OK, I need to listen. Yeah.
[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_03]: OK, so sorry.
[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_03]: We interviewed Peter Columbus like a month ago.
[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_03]: And I know Peter's been on your show. He's been on my show too.
[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_03]: And Dragon Ball Z. Yeah.
[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Kind of family, right?
[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah. Well, I met him for the first time at a Dragon Ball convention, Kamehocon.
[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_06]: And so we've been at a convention together a couple of times.
[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_06]: And then I interviewed him for anime adventures.
[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's so cool. He was telling us how like they recorded together once.
[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, did they record together?
[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_03]: And then they're like, OK, we're going to record separately from here on out.
[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, interesting.
[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Peter said that he was the disruptive guy.
[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_04]: So he was making it all hell to try and make everybody laugh.
[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not surprised. Yeah, we can't do this anymore.
[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_06]: He's hilarious. Yeah.
[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_03]: I was going to say, I mean, it's kind of hard if you're all recording separately,
[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_03]: but any fun experiences getting to know the cast,
[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_03]: like anything that you saw, like about, say, an actor that translated into their character.
[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_03]: You're like, I see what's happening here.
[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that's such a good question.
[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. It's hard.
[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow. It's hard because we were cast and then got to know each other.
[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_06]: So it was hard.
[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it was flip flop.
[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_06]: And a lot of them started like in the Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball days.
[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_06]: And so GT, like they had already been recording together.
[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_06]: So I kind of got to know them later.
[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Now, probably looking back, you could go, oh, I see how they might have gotten cast.
[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's interesting.
[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_06]: So he mentioned Anime Adventures.
[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_06]: That is my YouTube channel where I interview anime voice actors.
[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_06]: And one thing that has come up, this may have come up for y'all as well.
[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_06]: But one thing that has come up is how sometimes actors get typecast based on their looks or their physicality,
[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_06]: which is surprising because you would think, well, voice acting, it doesn't matter.
[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_06]: But like Meredith McCoy said, you know, I think they just cast me because I was blonde and my character is blonde.
[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_06]: And then J. Michael Tatum, I interviewed him for, oh, somebody's excited in the front.
[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_06]: I interviewed him for and you know, his My Hero Academia character does this a lot.
[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_06]: And he was like, my friends tell me I do that.
[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I think they typecast me.
[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_06]: And Damien Clark was like, I think I've gotten cast.
[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Who was it?
[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Sonny Strait or Chris Abbott or somebody said, you look like your character.
[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_06]: So or look like this character.
[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_06]: We're just going to cast you.
[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_06]: So it's interesting that sometimes people get cast and they look like their characters,
[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_06]: which you don't have to look anything like your characters.
[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I obviously don't look like Pan.
[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_04]: So Chris Abbott just got because that oh yeah, you're you look like Vegeta.
[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_06]: So oh yeah, Chris, you're yeah, Chris Abbott just books everything.
[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to get in?
[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to do some audience questions?
[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Because this is kind of a two part panel where we talk about, you know,
[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Elise and her experience on Dragon Ball Z.
[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_03]: But also I know you want to talk about Dragon Ball Z.
[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_03]: But we're also going to talk about voice acting and maybe some tips about how to get into voice acting.
[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_03]: So does anybody have Dragon Ball GT questions or?
[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and we can talk about Dragon Ball GT.
[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_06]: We can talk about like I do interview actors.
[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_06]: I also am a voice coach and teach group classes over Zoom.
[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_06]: So no matter where you are in the country, I coach.
[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_06]: And so if you want to know about that, I have a class coming up starting Wednesday.
[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Anybody any questions?
[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Not all at one time.
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know. Just feel free to walk up to the mic there.
[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_06]: We've got a question right here. Yes.
[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, and I love your shirt.
[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you so much.
[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_07]: What can I answer for you?
[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_07]: So hi, my name's Hannah Bukata.
[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_07]: I love it.
[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_07]: What did you say? Rule one, adjust the mic.
[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_07]: Have somebody adjust the mic for you.
[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_07]: What's your question?
[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, what's your question?
[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_07]: So I want to become a voice actor in the future and I'm hoping for getting good tips since I'm still a beginner.
[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_07]: So what are some other tips for me to like slide into emotions and different tones?
[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, such a good question.
[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Have a couple.
[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_06]: One, like find somebody to study with if not me, somebody else.
[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_06]: But what I have taken so many classes over the years from Dallas to California, you name it.
[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_06]: What is great about that is guidance from a teacher and then networking with other people.
[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_06]: So you can see like who's doing your demo or if you're on camera, who's doing your head shots.
[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_06]: And then even if you don't study, just practice recording, even if it's just on your phone.
[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Record.
[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_06]: We as actors now all have to be self-directors because we're all recording our auditions from home.
[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_06]: And some jobs are from home, some are in the studio.
[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_06]: So you have to be really good at having a good ear and being able to direct yourself.
[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_06]: So just record as much as you can, whether it's anime and you like watch the sub and just record some of that.
[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Listen to commercials, record that and then go, okay, how was that?
[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_06]: I thought that was okay.
[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to record it again.
[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_06]: And it is weird.
[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Like if you are new to doing it at first, I mean, you know how we go, wait, is that my voice?
[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, man.
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_06]: But you'll get to a point where you can almost talk like a third person like, oh, I like what she did right there.
[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_06]: That was good.
[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_06]: She didn't sound so good right there.
[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I still have to do that and give myself direction.
[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_06]: And then I would say, like if you're working on tones and emotions, literally give yourself direction and then see how it sounds and have a heightened awareness.
[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Like this is one exercise we just do in class.
[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_06]: It's so simple.
[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Like have a heightened awareness of actors, whether you're watching anime or commercials and you think you do now.
[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_06]: But I'll give you this challenge.
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Listen in a new way and you may find that you hear different things.
[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_06]: So like would I cast myself in this?
[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Would I do I like their casting choice?
[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_06]: What would I do differently?
[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Or are they perfect?
[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_06]: And you'll start picking up on I mean, y'all all probably have an awareness because you're here.
[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_06]: But just try to find something you haven't noticed before and then see if you can replicate, see if you can discover something new.
[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_06]: So I think it's just practice, practice, practice.
[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Be good at cold reading because that's so much of what anime is corporate work, which may or may not sound exciting.
[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_06]: But I always think paychecks are exciting.
[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_06]: So commercial work is good.
[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Just be good at cold reading.
[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_06]: So there are so many things even if you're not taking classes that you can do.
[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_06]: That was a fantastic question.
[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much.
[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_06]: You're beautiful.
[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank you.
[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank you.
[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell us a little bit of the different types of voice acting?
[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Because we've been talking about animation.
[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Really there's gaming, there's commercials.
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh my goodness.
[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Sometimes I have a PowerPoint presentation for this and I've got them all written down.
[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_06]: But that's such a good point.
[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_06]: There's yes.
[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_06]: And what we love to talk about anime, animation, video games.
[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_06]: There's commercial work.
[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_06]: There's corporate.
[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_06]: There's e-learning.
[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_06]: There are promos and trailers for movies and TV shows.
[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_06]: There's motion capture.
[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_06]: There's audio books are such a great thing to do.
[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_06]: And it is something that actors can really control on their own because you can record from, you know, you can submit and record from your own studio.
[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_06]: There are so many different things.
[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_06]: And then so coming from the accounting and finance background, I like to think like diversify your portfolio or have multiple streams of income.
[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Do you relate to that?
[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Diversify your bonds Wu-Tang.
[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_06]: What?
[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Diversify your bonds Wu-Tang.
[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah.
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_06]: But like if you do all of those different things, it's how I've been able to be an actor for so long.
[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_06]: I do on camera and voiceover.
[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_06]: But with voiceover, I have different streams of income with on camera.
[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_06]: So if commercials are down, maybe anime is up or if anime is down, maybe my corporate work is up.
[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_06]: So it just allows you to have those streams of income and keep going.
[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_06]: So I'm glad you asked about that.
[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_06]: And to me, you know, a lot of people do want to just do anime.
[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_06]: But to me, everything's fun.
[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Like my agent always jokes with me, I know Elise, you will do anything.
[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_06]: And I will.
[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I just think I don't have to do accounting anymore.
[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_06]: No offense if you're an accountant, but I don't have to do accounting anymore.
[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I get to do acting.
[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_06]: So I'll take anything.
[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, we kind of talked about character.
[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_03]: But how do you find a backstory?
[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Like where the character originates from?
[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you had to do that with Pan specifically.
[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Or like do you ask a lot from say the directors and producers and writers?
[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Or do you like, I need to do this myself?
[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_06]: I think it really depends.
[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't do a lot of backstory with Pan.
[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I relied on the directors to tell me because I didn't know what Dragon Ball was at the time.
[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't know a lot about anime.
[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_03]: And there was probably a lot of history for Dragon Ball Z anyway.
[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's like somebody's creating this.
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, for her character specifically too because Pan is Goku's granddaughter.
[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_06]: So I think it depends.
[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of times with anime they can't, well now we know so much more and we have access to so much more.
[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_06]: If you are a researcher, you can research.
[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_06]: We at the time we were recording relied a lot on the directors.
[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_06]: And they still, the directors at Crunchyroll are so great about explaining everything.
[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Now if it comes to film, like when I've done film, I do a lot more work.
[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_06]: And that is creating your own backstory and everything.
[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_06]: So I think it just depends on the role and how much time you have.
[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_06]: And how much access you have to the characters or not.
[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry, I cut you off. You were about to have a question?
[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_08]: Hello.
[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_08]: I do a lot of open mics because I write stories about an angry super heroine.
[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_08]: And each super villain I create has to have a unique evil laugh.
[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_08]: I've self-published and people keep saying, Dave, you have to do some audio stuff.
[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_08]: So I have two questions about that.
[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_08]: Is there a way to find some businesses that would want some, shall we say interesting voices?
[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_08]: Best way to look that up.
[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_08]: And when you're recording at home, what are some fairly cheap ways to get a decent sound?
[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_08]: I mean, I have a good USB mic.
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_08]: I have a garage band.
[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_08]: But what's the best way to really get a good recording?
[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Ooh, okay.
[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Arlene, will you grab that thing that says text voice to this number?
[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_06]: So I have a gear list.
[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_06]: And if you want to text me at this number, I'm sending a gear list to some people from my convention last week.
[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_03]: That is such a good idea.
[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, thank you. Thank you.
[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_06]: We need to start doing that for podcasters.
[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_06]: If you want to, oh yeah.
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Want to take a picture of that?
[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_03]: That's so cool.
[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_06]: So you can text voice to this number if you all want to take a picture.
[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_06]: And what I have is a gear list with microphones at three different budget levels.
[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_06]: And so what is great now is you can get a studio set up for not very much.
[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Ooh, I'll let everybody take pictures while you're focused.
[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Here, we'll put this right here.
[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_04]: So if anybody's interested, you can see it right here and take a picture and get that number here.
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, because you can get microphones at multiple levels.
[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_06]: But these are three options.
[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_06]: You can record in your closet.
[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_06]: You can sound dampen with really inexpensive things and improve your sound.
[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_06]: And then he had one other question.
[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_03]: I forgot what the other one was.
[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_06]: It was, your other question was, are there companies looking for, what was the rest of your question?
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_08]: Companies that would like people doing some voiceovers.
[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_08]: And I'm inspired by the old cartoons back in the 60s and so forth and those delicious voices.
[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_06]: So I'm thinking of two things.
[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_06]: One, audiobooks might be good for you.
[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_06]: And if you go to ACX.com, that is the audiobook arm of Amazon.
[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_06]: And you can find projects that seem intriguing to you and submit.
[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_06]: And then there are also like fiction podcasts.
[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_06]: I have a list at home, but I don't have it with me.
[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_06]: But like I share that with students all the time so you can submit to fiction podcasts.
[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_06]: You can probably do some digging as well.
[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_06]: And that would probably be intriguing to you based on what you're telling me.
[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_08]: Thank you.
[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_08]: I'm going to try and text you before I walk away.
[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, OK. Yeah.
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_08]: Awesome.
[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Not everybody has to go out and get a sure SM-7B, right?
[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_06]: No, not everybody.
[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_06]: I think it's on my list.
[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_06]: But yeah, I mean, there's one microphone, the Audio Technica 2020.
[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_06]: And I think it used to be a USB mic.
[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_06]: It used to be $150.
[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_06]: And somebody said Amazon just lowered the price to $70 or something.
[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_06]: So you can just start with what will work for you.
[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_06]: And then you can always upgrade in the future.
[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you definitely don't need to break the bank.
[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_04]: We started with the Blue Yeti.
[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_06]: With what?
[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_04]: We started with the Blue Yeti.
[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Big 8.
[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Blue Yeti.
[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, Blue Yeti.
[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we started with that.
[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of people start with that.
[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Don't start them up.
[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I started with one and then upgraded when I could.
[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_04]: If you guys want to hear a terrible version of our podcast, go listen to the first episode.
[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my goodness.
[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's get back to Elise.
[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_03]: You mentioned earlier in-person acting or camera acting.
[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell us some of the differences that you go through, like preparing?
[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Is it voice acting, whichever form of voice acting, versus on-camera acting?
[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, some of it is just do I have to memorize script or not.
[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, voiceover, the nice thing is you just take your script with you.
[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Now for voice acting or on camera, I do make sure I can pronounce all the words.
[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_06]: I look things up with companies.
[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_06]: If I don't know the name of a company, like if it's voiceover or on-camera commercial,
[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_06]: I will call the company and see how they answer the phone.
[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_06]: For commercials, a lot of times you'll have to memorize script.
[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Fortunately, I am a quick study for memorizing film.
[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Of course, it's a longer process.
[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_06]: But one of the things, so I feel like you can in voiceover,
[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_06]: you can hear people's, if they are smiling, you hear that.
[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_06]: So if I'm doing on-camera, like I book a lot of smiley roles,
[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_06]: surprise, surprise. And so voiceover too.
[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_06]: So if you're saying I love Starbucks, it's really hard to go, I love Starbucks.
[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I can't be super excited without smiling.
[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_06]: So some things, you know, it's just acting.
[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_06]: It's acting whether you're on-camera or voiceover.
[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_06]: So I'm going to ponder this, but I feel like a lot of it is
[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_06]: whether you have to memorize and if you have to,
[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I've never had to really, real cry for voiceover.
[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_06]: I've made it sound like I was crying for film.
[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_06]: I've had to like really cry and get emotional and all the things.
[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Do you have a preference between the two?
[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't. Somebody asked me that recently.
[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_06]: And I was like, oh, it's like if you had to pick your favorite kid,
[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_06]: you just couldn't. I mean, I only have one kiddo.
[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_06]: But I like it both. I like the variety.
[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_06]: I think it's so fun that I can go shoot a commercial one day
[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_06]: and then do a voiceover commercial and then do an anime.
[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_06]: I just love the variety. I think it's so interesting.
[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_03]: It almost keeps like the creative juices.
[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you don't get stuck.
[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I feel the same way. Like I'm in web design.
[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's always like website here for one thing
[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_03]: and then changes to something else on the next project.
[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I feel what you mean about that ebb and flow.
[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I love the variety.
[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Do you have any tips or things to avoid,
[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_03]: like potholes in your journey of voice acting?
[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_03]: What not to do?
[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Like buy a Blue Yeti. Don't buy a Blue Yeti.
[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, here's what's funny. Some of it's basic.
[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Show up on time. Tell your agent you're going on vacation.
[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_06]: It is funny how many times actors go on vacation
[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_06]: and don't tell their agents.
[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Or like when we were doing in-person auditions,
[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_06]: people wouldn't bring their headshots
[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_06]: or they don't have their materials.
[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_06]: So I was like, sometimes just do your job.
[00:31:10] [SPEAKER_06]: Like one time I booked an acting job
[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_06]: because an actor didn't, it was on camera,
[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_06]: an actor didn't show up to the job.
[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_06]: My agent called and said,
[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_06]: well you weren't the first choice,
[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_06]: but we know you'll show up.
[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, what? This is still a paycheck.
[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_06]: So sometimes it's like doing what you're supposed to do.
[00:31:29] [SPEAKER_06]: So I guess I would say don't do what you're not supposed to.
[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know how that negative works.
[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_04]: In the army we had something that was
[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_04]: right place, right time, right uniform.
[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_04]: So the idea is just being prepared
[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_04]: and making sure you have everything.
[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_06]: And read, I can't tell you like how important
[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_06]: just reading well is.
[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_06]: So even if you have to pull out boring stuff
[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_06]: and read it, that helps so much.
[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_06]: I think my longest corporate voiceover job
[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_06]: was three hours,
[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_06]: but the client kept calling me back.
[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_06]: She's like, you read well.
[00:32:05] [SPEAKER_06]: I've done a lot of teleprompter
[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_06]: and it's reading well.
[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_06]: So if you're not comfortable with that,
[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_06]: which sometimes you may read well,
[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_06]: but you're just not used to doing it
[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_06]: in front of people, even if it's just one engineer.
[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_06]: So just practice reading and get comfortable
[00:32:20] [SPEAKER_06]: reading in front of people,
[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_06]: reading out loud, hearing yourself do it.
[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Some good tips.
[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Does anybody have questions about voice acting,
[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_03]: anything else?
[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Or if you guys just want to talk about
[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_04]: any roles that she's played.
[00:32:34] [SPEAKER_03]: She's played more than just Dragon Ball.
[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Testing, testing.
[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious, is there,
[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_02]: what would you tell your younger self
[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_02]: 20 some odd years ago,
[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_02]: any advice that you have?
[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious to hear that.
[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm Zach by the way, lovely to meet you.
[00:32:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, oh thank you.
[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_06]: Nice to meet you.
[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_06]: So.
[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_03]: By the way, 20 years ago she'd be like
[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_03]: two years old so.
[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:32:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, like totally.
[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_06]: I think what I would tell myself
[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_06]: is what I did tell myself,
[00:33:06] [SPEAKER_06]: which is, so one of my favorite words
[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_06]: is intentionality.
[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_06]: So live with intention and live without regrets.
[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_06]: But that is what I told myself at that age
[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_06]: and I have always been very intentional
[00:33:18] [SPEAKER_06]: and wanted to live without regret.
[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_06]: So when I quit corporate,
[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't really know if acting would work out,
[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_06]: but I wanted to pursue it.
[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_06]: And I was okay to fail.
[00:33:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Like if I failed, it was fine,
[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_06]: but I went at least I'll pursue it
[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_06]: and maybe it'll broaden my horizon.
[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I worked at a company,
[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_06]: like a government company
[00:33:41] [SPEAKER_06]: and gave a lot of presentations to Army.
[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I was on programs with the Army.
[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I went, well,
[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_06]: if acting doesn't work out,
[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_06]: it'll broaden my horizons
[00:33:51] [SPEAKER_06]: and I'll be better at presentations.
[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_06]: So I was pretty intentional
[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_06]: with the things that I did.
[00:33:57] [SPEAKER_06]: I geeked out about goal setting
[00:34:00] [SPEAKER_06]: and taking actionable steps.
[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_06]: So anybody who takes my group
[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_06]: or private classes,
[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_06]: we set goals in actionable steps
[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_06]: because one thing that I have always wanted to do
[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_06]: is make forward moving progress
[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_06]: even if they're small steps.
[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_06]: So I want students to do that too.
[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Even if it's heightened awareness,
[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_06]: that's still moving forward in your career.
[00:34:21] [SPEAKER_06]: So if I give advice to other people,
[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_06]: it's like be intentional,
[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_06]: live without regret,
[00:34:26] [SPEAKER_06]: at least pursue something.
[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Even if it doesn't work out,
[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_06]: you tried it.
[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_04]: That is amazing advice to live by.
[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank you.
[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_06]: It really is.
[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_06]: My husband and I have tried
[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_06]: to really stick to that.
[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Good.
[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm a project manager at my work
[00:34:43] [SPEAKER_03]: and I feel like I just got inspired.
[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, really?
[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_03]: So that was awesome.
[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Just like, yeah, intent, action.
[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, what was interesting,
[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_06]: so I worked at this company with
[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_06]: it was all engineers and financial people.
[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I quit my job to go to LA for a summer
[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_06]: and I had not told them I was acting until I quit
[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_06]: because I wanted to be a serious corporate person.
[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_06]: When I quit,
[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_06]: I had so many people come up and say,
[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_06]: oh gosh, I had a passion.
[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Not anybody wanted to be an actor,
[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_06]: but I had something I was passionate about.
[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_06]: But I've been at the company for 20 years
[00:35:19] [SPEAKER_06]: or 30 years and I just feel locked in.
[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And so it was a very early lesson for me
[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_06]: to pursue your passion.
[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Sometimes you can do it as a career,
[00:35:29] [SPEAKER_06]: sometimes it's just a side hustle,
[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_06]: but pursue it and at least go for it.
[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_06]: So I felt very lucky
[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_06]: to learn that lesson early on.
[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes?
[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Rule one, adjust the mic.
[00:35:42] [SPEAKER_07]: So, hi again.
[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_07]: Hello Hannah.
[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_07]: How can people deal with criticism
[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_07]: when they're a voice actor
[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_07]: or a beginner for voice acting
[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_07]: or really liking anime?
[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_07]: How could they deal with it?
[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_06]: So criticism will happen
[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_06]: because you are putting yourself out there.
[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like being an artist or an actor
[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_06]: and you just have to develop tough skin.
[00:36:10] [SPEAKER_06]: So unfortunately it will happen,
[00:36:13] [SPEAKER_06]: but I feel like if you work on your mindset
[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_06]: and your confidence and just go,
[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_06]: this is what I'm passionate about,
[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_06]: I want to try this,
[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_06]: you'll be able to deal with it.
[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Now, it's not fun because I still,
[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_06]: I've been acting for a while,
[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_06]: I still want to book every job.
[00:36:31] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't.
[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't book every job.
[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_06]: I think I heard them talking about
[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_06]: that they've auditioned for stuff
[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_06]: and they didn't get it.
[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_06]: But I feel like if it's something that you love
[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_06]: and you're passionate about it,
[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_06]: then you will go,
[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_06]: okay, I just know criticism may happen.
[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_06]: I know that I won't book every audition
[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_06]: and I'm okay with that.
[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to keep moving on.
[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_06]: So I hope that helps because it's just hard.
[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_07]: I know.
[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_07]: I've had to go through that a lot,
[00:36:59] [SPEAKER_07]: even for a girl like me with autism and ADHD.
[00:37:02] [SPEAKER_07]: But it's, you know what interview
[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_06]: you should watch?
[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Kellan Gough, he has, he's,
[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I forgot what he's, he's autistic
[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_06]: and I forgot how he described it.
[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_06]: But what he did say is his dad taught him early on
[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_06]: that autism was his superpower
[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_06]: and he is very, you know,
[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_06]: he's Five Nights at Freddy's.
[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Is that, am I saying that right?
[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Five Nights at Freddy's.
[00:37:28] [SPEAKER_06]: And he's My Hero Academia.
[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Like he's a very successful voice actor
[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_06]: and he learned things differently
[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_06]: because he said emotion, he didn't handle,
[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_06]: he didn't experience emotion like other people.
[00:37:41] [SPEAKER_06]: So because he was autistic,
[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_06]: so he learned how to emulate emotion by watching.
[00:37:47] [SPEAKER_06]: So you should watch his interview on my channel.
[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_06]: I think you would learn a lot if you're autistic.
[00:37:52] [SPEAKER_06]: It's really cool how he described it.
[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you so much.
[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_07]: Also, I'm turning 18 in June 15th
[00:37:59] [SPEAKER_07]: and I'm really excited.
[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_07]: So I'll be hitting my voice acting age when it's done.
[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm really excited!
[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh good, happy birthday.
[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_07]: Or happy early birthday.
[00:38:07] [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you so much.
[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_07]: Love you so much.
[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh, thank you.
[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_04]: It's got a few questions here before we get into wrap up here.
[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_03]: That was a good segue into anime.
[00:38:18] [SPEAKER_04]: I know, I know.
[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I've got that one too,
[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_04]: but I really want to ask this one.
[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_04]: So is there a dream role?
[00:38:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Like if you could get into any property project, anything,
[00:38:30] [SPEAKER_04]: is there something that you would just,
[00:38:33] [SPEAKER_04]: this is what I would love to work in.
[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Is there any property that's like that?
[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think two things.
[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_06]: I would love to do a Disney Pixar film and be a princess.
[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I need to work on my singing.
[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_06]: And then a huge blockbuster feature film on camera.
[00:38:53] [SPEAKER_04]: So Marvel listens to our show on a regular basis.
[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_04]: So Marvel, if you want to call Elise.
[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, Marvel, call me.
[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, you can text me.
[00:39:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Pixar's not that far from here, right?
[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Pixar's actually maybe an hour and a half from here.
[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, yes, I'll take it.
[00:39:09] [SPEAKER_06]: You'll tell them to call me.
[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we hang out in memory bill all the time.
[00:39:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey Pixar, you know, we're friends with Mr. Pixar.
[00:39:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh good, Mr. Pixar.
[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Before we get to wrap up questions,
[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_03]: let's talk about anime adventures because you just talked about it.
[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, let's do it.
[00:39:26] [SPEAKER_03]: You just sent her to YouTube to go check it out.
[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, tell us about anime adventures
[00:39:30] [SPEAKER_03]: because it was the coolest thing once I found it.
[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, thank you.
[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_04]: We want to know everything about it
[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_04]: and we want you to tell everybody to check it out.
[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, okay, so for the next two hours
[00:39:38] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to tell you everything about it.
[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Alright guys, get your time ready.
[00:39:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Cosplay contest, I'm sorry, but Elise is going to tell us about her thing.
[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Now anime adventures, so it is my YouTube channel
[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_06]: where I interview anime voice actors like I mentioned earlier
[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_06]: and others.
[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_06]: I've interviewed wrestlers and artists and cosplayers
[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_06]: and I do that as I, what?
[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_04]: As a wrestler?
[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Kevin Nash and Scott Hall.
[00:40:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes!
[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Rest in peace to Scott.
[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I do that as I travel to Comic-Cons.
[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I've done some at recording studios and I love it.
[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_06]: My first convention was 2018
[00:40:17] [SPEAKER_06]: and I had the idea at my first convention
[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_06]: and I thought, well this will be cool.
[00:40:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I've got a camera, I've got a mic
[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_06]: and maybe I can bring some insight as a voice actor
[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_06]: interviewing voice actors so you'll have to check it out.
[00:40:29] [SPEAKER_06]: I've got cards over at my table
[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_06]: but it's been really fun.
[00:40:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Cos I even learned stuff, I love talking to other actors.
[00:40:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yep, he's got one.
[00:40:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh good, yes, I will be sending out the gear list.
[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_03]: That's awesome.
[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_06]: So I've really enjoyed doing the YouTube channel
[00:40:46] [SPEAKER_06]: and now I think four years in.
[00:40:49] [SPEAKER_03]: That's awesome.
[00:40:50] [SPEAKER_03]: That's amazing.
[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I started watching it and honestly it was midnight last night.
[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_03]: I was doing extra research and then I found it
[00:40:56] [SPEAKER_03]: and I started looking and I saw the Peter Calama interview
[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_03]: and all these other interviews and I'm like,
[00:41:01] [SPEAKER_03]: it's three in the morning.
[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I need to stop watching these.
[00:41:04] [SPEAKER_04]: It's three in the morning and we need to leave in three hours.
[00:41:07] [SPEAKER_06]: We need to go.
[00:41:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Again, they are super insightful.
[00:41:11] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how many videos there are.
[00:41:12] [SPEAKER_03]: There's a lot of videos.
[00:41:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I think there's over 100.
[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_06]: I also release panels from some of my conventions
[00:41:18] [SPEAKER_06]: so you'll see actor panels as well.
[00:41:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[00:41:20] [SPEAKER_03]: It's super cool, super behind the scenes.
[00:41:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah and I've been on a break a little bit
[00:41:26] [SPEAKER_06]: but I have over I think 52 interviews in the can
[00:41:31] [SPEAKER_06]: so in June I'm going to go crazy.
[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, check it out.
[00:41:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Well now I have a new show to binge.
[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Alright, so these are the hard-hitting questions right here.
[00:41:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[00:41:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to ask you the hardest question
[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_04]: you've ever been asked in your life.
[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I'm so ready.
[00:41:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Are you ready for this?
[00:41:50] [SPEAKER_04]: What is your favorite kind of taco?
[00:41:52] [SPEAKER_06]: My favorite what?
[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_04]: What is your favorite kind of taco?
[00:41:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, anything with jalapenos on it because I love spicy.
[00:41:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Spicy?
[00:41:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_06]: So I'll say a fajita taco with lots of hot sauce and jalapenos,
[00:42:05] [SPEAKER_06]: fresh jalapenos.
[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Always, always good for that.
[00:42:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Can we get a final before we do our last little plug here
[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_04]: but can we get a final cheeseburger's fries and blueberry pie?
[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, cheeseburger's fries and blueberry pies.
[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[00:42:22] [SPEAKER_04]: We love it guys.
[00:42:25] [SPEAKER_04]: So where can everybody find you?
[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_04]: If everybody wants to find out more about Elise Bowman,
[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_04]: if they want to get into the voice act
[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_04]: and kind of all the plugs that you have done
[00:42:32] [SPEAKER_04]: over the course of this interview
[00:42:33] [SPEAKER_04]: but one more time a little condensed.
[00:42:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[00:42:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Where can we find out more about you?
[00:42:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Social media at Elise Bowman, E-L-I-S-E-B-A-U-G-H-M-A-N
[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_06]: for anime adventures is at Adventures Anime.
[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_06]: So those two, all the social media for coaching,
[00:42:49] [SPEAKER_06]: EliseCoaches.com, for merchandise, shop Elise Bowman,
[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_06]: for acting, EliseBowman.com.
[00:42:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Pretty easy if you can spell my name,
[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_06]: which that's the hard part.
[00:42:59] [SPEAKER_06]: But yeah, I would love for you to follow me.
[00:43:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Drop by Elise's table.
[00:43:01] [SPEAKER_03]: She has a card, right, with everything on it?
[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Perfect.
[00:43:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Got cards.
[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Come see me.
[00:43:07] [SPEAKER_06]: This has been fun.
[00:43:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much.
[00:43:09] [SPEAKER_06]: You guys are fantastic.
[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, thank you?
[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_06]: This was so much fun.
[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Amazing.
[00:43:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Give it up for Elise, please.
[00:43:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[00:43:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Thanks for being here.
[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Give it up, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:43:18] [SPEAKER_06]: If you have any questions, come see me at my table
[00:43:21] [SPEAKER_06]: or hit me up on social.
[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_03]: We're signing off for the class.
[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Exactly.
[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, we hope you enjoyed this week's
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