- To produce a voiceover session,
you first have to find the talent.
Luckily it's easier than ever
to find great voice talent
and when in doubt
you can just google voice actors.
You'll find plenty in your area.
Of course, these days they don't have to be local
'cause a lot of great voice actors
have their own recording studios
and you can work with them over Skype or over the phone
and they'll just you the files.
It's great.
For a more refined search
you can start with the main voice sites
which are voices.com, voice123.com,
VoiceBunny,
TheVoiceRealm,
voiver.com
and productionhub.com.
There are many other sites as well
that have lots of different voice actors on them
plus each individual actor usually has their own site.
Most voiceover sites
pretty much work the same way.
Let's take a quick look
at voices.com and find out how to find
the perfect voice quickly.
To do a quick search at voices.com
you don't need to have an account.
You can just see who is on here
and get a quick feel for the talent,
so, let's just click and search for talent
and I'm going to look for teen boy,
I've got a 13-year-old hero
from my animated series I'm looking for.
I'll hit enter.
Let's see what comes up.
And it shows here that 20 voices came up
and what's interesting
when you look for teen boys
you'll often find adult women
because their voices can work,
so take a quick listen to a couple of these.
- [Aidan] Welcome to Steam,
the ultimate enter.
- [Mark] So you can go through and you can listen
to any of these
and if I want to narrow it down even more,
let's try category of internet
and click on Search
and that narrowed it down just to two people.
Doesn't mean others can't do this
but they specifically had internet listed
on their own listing.
We can listen to one of these.
- [Boy] See that guy over there?
Yeah, the creep in the blue shirt who's stretching.
- Now if you want to get the information
on how to reach out to these people,
then you do have to have an account
but you can see how quick and easy it is
to listen to a whole bunch
of different voices
and you can narrow them down extremely fast.
If you want someone else to tackle
the job of finding the right voices for your project,
you could reach out to talent agencies
and casting agents.
Your local or state film office
or state film website
will have listings.
It's easy to find.
You can also find them with prodcutionhub.com.
In fact, Production Hub often handles
the websites for a lot of states and cities.
I often find lots of new talent
by asking other actors I hire
who they like to work with.
And I find talent by attending local improv comedy shows,
so it's a win win,
I love going to comedy
and I find really great talent,
especially if I'm doing a comedic piece
or I'm looking for animation voices,
improv people are incredible
and all they do is add to the final quality of your project.
Now, if you're hiring a recording studio to work with,
they should also know voice talent and agents
who they can recommend.
Now, it doesn't take very long to find great voice talent
and as you work with actors
who you really like,
build a list of them and save it somehow
whether it's in your email service
or on your phone or whatever
because working with the same actors
over and over makes each job that much easier.