It’s finally here! We’re officially launching our VoiceActing BLOG. We’ll be posting our thoughts and comments on a variety of voice acting issues from time to time. And we invite you to participate by posting your comments, suggestions, thoughts, challenges, etc.

Unlike a Forum, this is a Blog (short for “Web Log”). You can only post follow-up comments to our original posts – and we hope you do. Your comments can include your opinions on the topic in our main post and even links to other sites, if you like.

Our goal with this BLOG is to help voice actors at all levels of experience to be better at what they do, so they can better serve
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Last December we started offering conference calls with the intention of helping our students – and anyone else interested in voiceover – to become better at what they do. Some of our calls are free while others have a minimal charge. Our first call in December was “Demos A-Z” followed in January by our first [...]

Joni Wilson is an amazing teacher and does she ever know her stuff! For 90 minutes she explained the “mechanics” of our voices and how it actually works! We use our voices everyday (most of us, to make a living) but I was surprised by just how much I DIDN’T know about my voice and [...]

From my weekly post on Voiceoveruniverse.com in the Positive Thinkers UNITE Group For those of us who are Star Trek fans (and there are a lot of us), the arrival of a new movie bearing this name is right up there with the anticipation of Christmas morning! Yes, I do count myself a member of [...]

Some days it seems those voices in your head gnaw at you constantly with wonderful little insights like, “Why did you make that mistake, you idiot? What’s wrong with you?” Or, “Don’t even try that audition, they won’t like you anyway – you really aren’t that good – you don’t want to embarrass yourself, do you?” Or, the ever-popular, “You are never going to make it in this business; there are too many other people out there who are better than you!”

Food 4 Thought (from my Positive Thinkers UNITE group at www.voiceoveruniverse.com) When was the last time you went to a movie in the middle of a work week, in the middle of day, for no other reason than you wanted to? Now, if you work for someone else – doing something like this could cause [...]

Food 4 Thought (from the Positive Thinkers Unite group at www.voiceoveruniverse.com) by Brett Blumenthal (This is a very well-written piece I found recently on a Yahoo blog. Thought you’d all appreciate its wisdom) Although we like to think that the people in our lives are well-adjusted, happy, healthy minded individuals, we sometimes realize that it [...]

It’s taking a little while for us to get used to our new Blog. But, we’re getting there. Within the next few weeks we’ll be moving our AOVA Newsletter content to this Blog. That will mean that when you sign up to receive our posts by e-mail or RSS (real simple syndication), we’ll be able [...]

In “Listen Me a Picture” San Diego voice actor and voiceacting coach, Penny Abshire, shares her 3-step process for helping voice actors visualize a scene or create a character.

Thursday evening June 11th, 5 pm to 6:30 pm (Pacific Time) Learn the inside “skinny” on Voice-Over for Animation Jean Ann Wright and MJ Lallo are co-authors of the newly released book, “Voice-over for Animation.” Jean interviewed dozens of animation pros. MJ contributed her extensive animation experience and handled the audio production for the CD. [...]