#mel blanc

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Mel Blanc: Corpsing

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Bugs Bunny: Mississippi Hare Director: Chuck Jones | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1949

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Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)

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Looney Tunes: Breakdowns of 1938 // Dir. Robert Clampett

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Voice legends working on “The Flintstones”: Alan Reed, Jean Vander-Pyl, Bea Benederet, and Mel Blanc

[thebarroomortheboy]

Along with producer Leon Schlesinger, other members of the Warner Bros. animation studio played the live-action roles: writer Michael Maltese was the security guard, animator Gerry Chiniquy was the live-action director, and manager Henry Binder was the stagehand who tosses Porky out of the soundstage. With the exception of Schlesinger, all voices were dubbed over by Mel Blanc.

YOU OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES (1940) | dir. Fritz Freleng

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Matt Mercer's Impressive Voice Acting

Critical Role Presents: Winter's Crest (A Holiday Album) really hits home what an incredible voice actor Matthew Mercer is. Once in a generation talent.

Voice Acting legend Mel Blanc was known as "The Man Of A Thousand Voices." (Probably an underestimate.) Matt Mercer's voiced around 2,250 voices in the Critical Role campaigns alone (not counting sound effects), many so distinctive the audience can tell a recurring character from voice alone before they're formerly reintroduced.

And now the Holiday Album shows that he can also belt out singing very well in some of his goofiest accents and have then fully come through. Which is so incredibly hard. The rest of the cast did a great job as well, but Matt's parts were harder and more exaggerated.

Everyone in the voice acting/TTRPG performance professions around him seems very impressed by his skill, but I don't see as much acknowledgement from average viewers. Like, "Oh yeah, he's that guy who can just talk in any voice that he collects like a parrot and hold full on conversations with himself and make a lot of mouth sounds. Pretty immersive!"

Meanwhile if you actually run the numbers it's like saying that once a week you get to hear someone improvise voice acting as difficult as Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 or Violin Concerto (which are so difficult they were both considered unplayable in their day). Do not feel bad if you can't live up to Matt's performances at your table. You probably can't play pickup basketball like LeBron James either, or do gymnastic flips like Simone Biles. That's part of why Matt himself tells people they don't need to be like him to run games well because everyone has their own special skill.

Just gotta sit back and appreciate an artist working at the height of their ability to do something very special. Admiration and aspiration can drive new artists to develop their own incredible skills, but the statics of reaching that skill level are against you. It's the end of the Bell Curve, not a minimum to have fun. Treating Matt's skill as a mark to measure everyone else against will just make you perpetually and unreasonably disappointed. You can be much happier just cooling for everyone's different skills and strengths instead.

We get to see something very special and difficult every week done so well in looks easy. I love running that math from time to time to remind myself just how cool it is and not let normalcy diminish that awe.

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Happy Birthday Foghorn Leghorn! Robert McKimson’s “Walky Talky Hawky” released August 31st, 1946 introduced the loquacious rooster to the world, and it hasn’t, I say, it hasn’t been the same since.

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Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953) Warner Bros. Dir. Charles M. Jones

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Hanna-Barbera’s Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels character model sheet - 1977.

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Merrie Melodies: Wild Wife Director: Robert McKimson Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1954

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Twiki - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

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Those of you who are fans of traditional animation and retro anime, check this out! And follow the person who made this on YouTube!

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We would not be who we are without the work of these three men. Pictured at the Academy Awards, Mel Blanc, Friz Freleng, and Chuck Jones.

[thebarroomortheboy]

THE DOVER BOYS AT PIMENTO UNIVERSITY OR THE RIVALS OF ROQUEFORT HALL (1942) | dir. Chuck Jones