After Gu Xue said hello and sat down, people greeted her one after another.

After some absentmindedly responded to the greetings, Gu Xue focused her attention on the recording studio.

The soul of the character is the voice actor.

In a sense, this statement is true.

Especially for Japanese animation, the emotional voice contained in the voice actor can fill in some of the natural defects of hand-drawn animation.

For example, the final words of "Uncle Ben" and the eleventh episode of "Invasion", if there are only explosive paintings, and there is no hard performance by the voice actors, it will definitely be incomplete.

But in the matter of choosing the soul of the character, Gu Xue has not participated much at present.

Like the two films "Invasion" and "Uncle Ben", Gu Xue was only the original artist at the beginning, and he was not qualified to participate, and the future version of the animation of "Little Witch Academy", the nominal supervisor at that time was Misawa Guang, although Gu Xue had opinions, but it was Misawa Hiroshi who was mainly involved in this link.

to the theatrical version of "Little Witch Academy".

The voice actor directly followed the candidates for the future version of the animation, and Gu Xue only participated in the selection of voice actors for the new characters, and did not participate in this link completely.

This "Embracing a Better Tomorrow" is the first time that Gu Xue has fully participated in this link in the true sense.

However, experience is something that is obtained by accumulation again and again, although Gu Xue has not fully participated in the voice actor audition before, but she has already experienced the general process, and she will not have to adapt to everything.

After Gu Xue entered the mixing room, she looked at the recording studio for a while, and then exchanged their impressions of the main characters with Ye Huo, who was also the composer of the series and also served as the script for the first and second episodes of the animation, and the sound supervisor.

Time passed slowly, and it was here.

The first voice actor walked into the studio.

Because there are a lot of voice actor candidates for each role, when the voice actor auditions, basically all the candidates for a certain role are auditioned together.

These voice actors came to audition.

There were no footage in the studio, no one else was recording with them, and there were only a few lines of lines.

If they want to better grasp the feeling of the character, they can only buy the original work at their own expense and figure it out by themselves, if it is an original animation, they can only rely on the setting information of the relevant character personality given by the producer and the setting drawings that may be attached to figure out the feeling of the character, which is a great test of their ability and acting maturity.

And even if their acting skills are OK, sometimes they don't necessarily get selected, because in addition to their acting skills, the head producers of the animation also have to consider the overall sense of balance. When there are many voice actors in a TV anime, even if each voice actor is impeccable, it will not work if you listen to it together and make it difficult to tell whose voice is who.

It can only be said that it is not easy for everyone to come out and mix.

The voice actor profession is, to some extent, more difficult than animation production.

This is an exaggerated, somewhat deformed industry.

But these have little to do with Gu Xue, the only promise she can make is not to do stupid things like the animation team of Earth's "Love Links", after all, she doesn't want to be remembered by a voice actor for a lifetime......

Just when Gu Xue was thinking wildly and was a little distracted.

The audition began.

The speaker supervisor asked the voice actor in the studio if she was ready, and after receiving a definite answer, motioned for her to begin.

The first voice actor introduced himself.

"I'm Ichinose of Chongxi Production, and I'm Alice."

Then he paused for a while and began to recite the lines prepared by Gu Xue.

Gu Xue came back to her senses and looked at the female voice actors in the recording studio through the glass.

[Nirvana, are we really going to the border of the Dark Elf Kingdom? Is there really no problem? 】

As soon as the lines are read, the voice of the voice actor changes.

With weakness and uneasiness, it feels like a girl next door.

Then comes the next paragraph, and the emotions contained in the voice actor's voice change again.

[Eh, I didn't, wasn't it just the two of you who sneaked out last time? I'm just going to look for you. 】

This time with a little eccentric feeling in it, and a little schadenfreude.

[Light nest, descend to the body. 】

The third line has a crying tone, but the voice of the voice actor gives people a sense of holiness in it, which is amazing.

Then the voice actor recited two more lines, and the feelings contained in his voice kept changing.

…… The saying that the voice actor is a monster is really not nonsense.

Although it sounds a little abrupt at the moment, if you really dub the animation, the sound matches the picture and the unfolding plot, and it generally doesn't feel this way, after all, it's normal for the characters to change their feelings as the plot develops.

In addition, when the animation is dubbed with lines, it will be adjusted in real time, and after adding music and effect sounds, the sound supervisor will also coordinate the overall balance of all sounds, which is their job.

Gu Xue didn't doubt the phrase "voice actors are monsters", but she wouldn't be so surprised anymore, after all, she hadn't experienced it before, and she was used to it.

The first voice actor to hide the voice actor of the heroine Alice for "Embracing a Better Tomorrow", Gu Xue is also quite satisfied, the first three paragraphs, the first two paragraphs are no problem, and they are also in line with Gu Xue's imaginary voice, that is, the other party does not seem to grasp the point in the third paragraph, this paragraph is a little weak and desperate in Gu Xue's imagination.

But it's not a big problem, Gu Xue remembered the performance of this voice actor.

The audition ends.

The sound supervisor said to the voice actors in the studio that he had worked hard.

The voice actor in the studio bowed slightly in the direction of the mixing room, thanked him, and withdrew.

After a while, a second voice actor walked into the studio.

Because of the performance of the first voice actor, Gu Xue has some expectations for others, although she is quite satisfied with the first one, but the first one will always give people a sense of freshness and illusion, Gu Xue will not arbitrarily have to be the first voice actor, and go through all the voice actors who come to audition, which is a respect for them and a responsibility for their own works.

Pity.

The second voice actor disappointed Gu Xue.

The other party seems to be obsessed with "impressive voices", and he uses too much force, and he doesn't feel Alice at all.

Gu Xue listened expressionlessly.

Next up.

Again, in the same situation, it seems that there is no such thing as a voice and a character at all.

Next, next, it's the same thing.

Gu Xue was a little speechless, and remembered what the other party had said when she chatted with Kyoko Matsudaira, who dubbed Yake in "Little Witch Academy", before.

She said: At recent auditions, voice actors tend to choose "voices that can make a deep impression." Nowadays, voice actor schools are also biased towards teaching students exaggerated acting skills that are easier to impress, even if they don't match the role, they feel that as long as it is impactful, it will definitely bring an impact to the audience.

Of course, Gu Xue just listened to it as an anecdote, but she didn't expect this situation to be so serious.

I also met myself.

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