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Permalink Reply by StopmoNick on February 4, 2017 at 1:11am

When I click on your Youtube link, I get "this video is unavailable".

My voice is terrible even when I'm well, or I'd try it.  Not so much goofy as thin, flat, and dull.  I did a voice myself for a minor character in my film, but it sucked.  So I then got someone else to do the same lines and re-animated the scene to fit the new reading of the lines.    Hope someone volunteers for you.

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Permalink Reply by Atalissa Harrah on February 4, 2017 at 9:09am

Oh, I'm sorry! I had it as private and not unlisted. I fixed it though so hopefully it will work. :)

I shouldn't have any trouble with having to change animation because none of my characters have faces yet. I'm still deciding weather I should get a program that can draw over my animation for a mixed-media type film. I was going to try lip-syncing it with the actual puppets, but this is only my second clay animation and I got scared and changed my mind.

Anyway, thanks for your hope and time! Have a lovely day. 

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Permalink Reply by Simon Tytherleigh on February 4, 2017 at 9:13am

Must be an actors' or filmmakers group near you, or even someone you know who has the right voice for it. Then all you have to do is get them and a decent recorder/mic together....

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Permalink Reply by Atalissa Harrah on February 4, 2017 at 9:26am

Alas, I live in a small town. We don't have much of anything here, so finding actors is hard. My brother was originally going to help me because he has TONS of great voices he can use, but he won't do it anymore for some reason. 

We actually bought a good professional microphone for these type of things, too.

Thanks, though.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Heinzeroth on February 4, 2017 at 2:45pm

I was thinking what Simon mentioned. I don't know if this will help, but the local community college where I live (middle of nowhere Pennsylvania) has voiceover/voice acting classes as part of their curriculum. I have absolutely no idea why, bc this area has no need for it. There's like one or two radio DJ's that do all the commercial work for radio and tv (from the sounds of it, lol). 

Anyway, it might be a starting point to finding someone(s) in your area.

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Permalink Reply by Atalissa Harrah on February 4, 2017 at 5:26pm

That's an interesting thought, though I'm not very close to a college town. It's worth a shot though.

Thanks, Dennis. :)

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Permalink Reply by StopmoNick on February 5, 2017 at 8:25pm

I thought some more, and remembered there are online sites with voice-over artists. Generally you will have to pay money, so that might be a deterrent.

This one has people who will do a voice for $5: http://lp.fiverr.com/lp-voiceover/?u_sou=google&u_med=cpc&u...

Another site: http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/casting-call/

Often what you get are announcer-type voices, though some people do both. But this one seems to be specifically for cartoon voice actors - which would fit in with the goofy voice idea: http://www.cartoonactors.com

There will be many more if you search for Voice Actors, but these are a couple I had saved.

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Permalink Reply by Atalissa Harrah on February 6, 2017 at 10:56am

This is very helpful, Nick! Thank you for sending me these links. I'm definitely going to check them out! Even if it doesn't work out this time, I'll keep them in mind for future projects. :) Thanks again!

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Permalink Reply by Link Aran on February 6, 2017 at 11:39am

I admit, I haven't watched the video, but I would recommend recording then modulating voices in a program like audacity. some famous voices (like soundwave's) were done in a process like this

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Permalink Reply by Atalissa Harrah on February 6, 2017 at 1:16pm

I put up an ad- Now we wait.

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Permalink Reply by Atalissa Harrah on February 6, 2017 at 1:19pm

I have Audacity, though I'm not very good at editing voices. (I usually cut music and such with it.) Though that is a good idea, I can look up tutorials on YouTube for some ideas. Thanks for the idea. :)

Link Aran said:

I admit, I haven't watched the video, but I would recommend recording then modulating voices in a program like audacity. some famous voices (like soundwave's) were done in a process like this

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Permalink Reply by Don Carlson on February 6, 2017 at 3:30pm

What  kind of ghost voice are you looking for, Atalissa? Within that category of character, there are a great many varieties. This became apparent to me while watching "Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera. The title character has a ghostly-sounding voice, but each actor in the role has brought a different personality to it. Some are tenors and sing in head voice with a lot of vibrato throughout, others belt the song, and still others speak-sing, cry, whine, or shout it. There have been very strong, thick-toned Phantoms, and others have had wispy and thin voices.

In the world of old cartoons, there are big ghosts with squeaky high voices and small ghosts with bassy deep voices. Some are twangy, and others are hooty. You are probably looking for a very specific voice and tone for your ghost character, so more detail about who he is and what his attitude is like would help flesh out the character as a voice- even if he only has one line to say. As Tom Hanks in the making of Toy Story demonstrated, you can speak a single line many different ways, and it's the words you emphasize that determine their meaning as a phrase. 

For example, maybe the ghost is being sarcastic about caring that he left the teakettle on. He could be reveling in the fact that causing it to boil over will scare the people who live in the house he's haunting, which adds a layer of dimension to his character...He's a playful poltergeist!

I probably took this a little deep, but that's the essence of acting, whether it's with your body or your voice- you're pretending to be someone or something else and, given enough details about the part you're playing, you can play the character to the degree that no one would recognize you as the actor.

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