#*Sonic voice* I do. All the time.

[uniiiquehecrt]

Voice actors are NOT the same as actors.

It takes a specific kind of skill-set and training to be able to warp and meld the voice. It takes a certain kind of talent and dedication to hone that talent into the ability to meld the voice and invoke emotion with one's voice alone. Actors are used to using their voice secondarily to their body language and their facial expressions. It's all mirrored back on camera. They do have nuance. But it's a different kind of nuance and a different kind of training to produce that nuance.

Voice actors might get their likeness transposed on their character's design, and maybe their mannerisms might seep into the character's animation. But when it's all said and done: their presence is in their voice. They are bringing a character to life, showing that emotion in their voice, trying to keep a specific accent, drawl, pitch, tone in that voice and keep it consistent for their recording sessions.

The voice actor is like a classically trained musician who can play first chair in a competitive, world-renown orchestra. The actor (who fills the voice actor's role) is like a moot who played violin in beginner and intermediate high school orchestra and thinks they can get into Juilliard with that 2-4 years of experience.

This doesn't mean that the HS orchestra moot can't play. They can even be really good at it. Maybe they won competitions and sat first chair. But they are not in the same league as the person who's been training their whole lives and lives and breathes to hone their craft using the instrument and all of the training they've ever acquired to perfect it. They are not meant for the same roles. They are not in the same caliber. You do not hire the HS equivalent when you want to play complex music in a competitive orchestra.

Actors are not the same as voice actors.

And furthermore, actors - especially big name actors - taking the roles of animated characters for big budget films or TV pilots makes no sense anyways when - at least in the case of TV pilots - there's not a point to hiring a big budget actors anyways. That money could be used elsewhere (like paying your animators), and the talent that is brought onto the screen for X character could then be hired on to voice said character no recasting required.

I wouldn't say voice acting as a profession is in danger exactly, but it's certainly being disrespected and overlooked for celebrity clout, and this has ALWAYS been an issue. Shoot, even Robin Williams knew that much - which is why he tried so hard not to be used as a marketing chess piece for Aladdin and got royally pissed off when it happened anyways. People shouldn't go to any movie (but especially not animated films) because "oh famous actor is in it". People should go because it's a good movie and the voice acting is good.

People who honest to god think that voice actors are replaceable because "oh well anyone can voice act" or "I like xyz celebrity so naturally it'll be good" ... Honestly I just wish you'd reassess your priorities because you're missing the point and are part of the problem.

Voice Actors ≠ Actors.

[atwas-gaming]

See what I mean about their voice acting? They mimic each other's in-character vocal inflections perfectly.

[multicolour-ink]

I find it funny out of the Sonic characters we have met so far in the movies (four)

only one of them - Tails - has kept their current voice actor from the games.

[perenlop]

watching a video about how ruthless 2010s youtube culture was to sonic and the point about the official twitter even getting in on the sonic hate reminded me of the time they got arin hansen (or one of the game grumps anyways) to write a song for the youtube channel about how much big the cat sucked

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

...Do you ever think about how Sonic truly is the only person who cares about Nine now?

[cheriboms]

doctober day 8: outatime

some scenes i really like from chapter 5 of the game :)

[deanpinterester]

well. last year i saw a bunch of people fancasting keanu reeves as shadow the hedgehog. how do we feel now

[cavefairy]

dude oh my god. sonic forces..................

[sonknuxadow]

i say i dont like creams voice in sonic dream team but to be honest i didnt really like any of her english voices at first ive just gotten used to them over time . sorry cream

[samuraisharkie]

you want to reread archie so bad.... its a good comic book... ooooooo you wanna read it sooo badddd

I was an AVID Archie fan my life used to REVOLVE around Archie sonic. I’m already trying to read the Spider-Man comic books I think re-reading Archie would transform me into middle school autism me

[tails-boogie-board]

more knuckles and baby!tails! Short one this time but its after the other knuckles and baby tails __

"It's Metal!"

The voice was squeaky and for a second, Knuckles braced for another opponent. They were nasally and youn- and it was Tails and Knuckles was a bad friend. He vaguely remembered the fox being chattier when they were younger, but maybe it was because he was directly compared to Sonic.

But the kit hadn't said a single word and Knuckles hadn't even noticed, but then why- Metal.

Shit.

And Knuckles was sent across the map.

He hit snow and digging out of the resulting avalanche gave him enough time to scold himself and to push it in the past. Erupting out of the ice, Knuckles hit the ground running. The Ice Cap was difficult and perilous on the surface, but if he could get underground, all tunnels lead to the Alter.

There was no time for subtly, and Knuckles barreled into the rock. The mountain stone crumbled under him and snow poured into the tunnel. He took off at double speed, he'd repair the damage later.

It took time to get across the island and even running, he could only go so fast. The ground shook and Knuckles grit his teeth. Tremors only meant one thing on Angel Island and like Hell would Knuckles let Eggman have the Master Emerald.

The ground steadied under his feet, Sonic was as late as ever. It took another minute before he burst into the early morning light.

"SONIC!"

Knuckles gripped a tree at the sudden intense wind, the branches buckled under the strain but he held strong. Pushing forward, Knuckles burst into the clearing and froze.

[cosmic-cd]

late night oc thoughts again!

[true-blue-sonic]

Bingo Silver from the Olympic games bc u played that??

My introduction to the boi!! Considering the fact the Olympic games generally are not used in Silver's Character Discussions, I have nothing to say in that regard, haha. He's fine there, in my opinion! Competitive boi, plenty sweet and helpful too, altogether fun and interesting. Haha, what I remember from my very first introduction to him in London 2012 3DS is that I did not know which one of the two foggy clones was Shadow and which one was Silver! XD

[dan-crimes]

Nuh uh uh *shakes my little finger* you will not get me Sonic franchise you will NOT get me invested into all this my dear buddy pal I've always enjoyed seeing you around but I will simply continue being a bystander just watching as it all goes by bcuz I know how it'll go if I actually get into all this

But also if I get bored I might get into it anyways it's mostly just a silly rule I put for myself cuz I know it would be a lot of work to catch up and I would prolly end up wanting to play some of the games if I got into the franchise but I'm not a gamer @ all so

[perenlop]

havent gotten to dbz yet but truly the more i find out about dragon ball the more silly the "sonic maliciously ripped off dbz, everything parallels PERFECTLY" thing becomes to me

[todayisafridaynight]

if i try really hard i can make everyone in the yakuza franchise be voiced by matt mercer