O’Brien – Matching is just a subset of voice-over it happens a lot for us in LA who work a lot with games and animation. American or not American, the English-speaking audience immediately goes ‘uh?’ and checks out ] everytime that happens.ĪUKN – Is this the biggest challenge in being a voice actor? Matching the timings?
If the character goes like this (he opens his mouth wide), you can’t just go ‘cheese’ because it obviously wouldn’t match. In the world of original animation and video games where you don’t have to match to a picture that already exists, there is much more room to play with language and just do anything, but with dubbing you’ve got these rigid guidelines. You used the word ‘waffle’ three times in one sentence and then you go ‘Wow, I used waffle too many times, I gotta pull one of those out’ so you tweak as you go.
And so, you might think that you wrote something that is just perfect length and works just right for an anime dub, then the actor comes in and it’s too short or too long, there’s something wacky about it. Most of the time, you get it right, but sometimes an actor’s natural pacing mismatching, I take longer with my reads, some people are faster talkers.
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When you’re adapting stuff, you’re sitting looking at a mac computer, I’ve got a movie file and a document open, thinking, ‘What kind of line? What kind of line?’ sort of read along with the cartoon. O’Brien – Actually, when it’s just dubbing in general, when you’re taking something that started as a Japanese language series, or any language and localising into your own country’s language. But it’s fun.ĪUKN – You mentioned how your involvement with Naruto grew from just being a Voice Actor to actually start writing the adaptations and also the voice-directing, so I was wondering how much you add of your own. Some people are cool you learn who likes it and who doesn’t. If the director is open to it, I often ask if I can try a different version of something or if I get one in the can, and I know it’s the way they’re written or the way they wanted, I tweak as we go. You sit in traffic in LA long enough you want to turn into a large sand monster.ĪUKN – Do you get to “ad-lib” a lot in your roles? O’Brien – Or it’s maybe what helps me not to do that in real life. And it’s fun to do, I do play heroes once in a while, and I like to, I like variety, but I have more fun tearing up the scenery and shaking my fist at the world.ĪUKN – So, it’s basically something you can relate to? I feel like I’m the John Malkovich of the gaming and animation world. Maybe three or four years in, people realised I was good at, you know, losing my nuts… When I first started, I played goofy characters, I played a lot of dorks and weirdo. O’Brien – I don’t know how that happened. Wiki says “O’Brien is usually cast in some of the most unusual roles, as such he tends to play characters that show signs of insanity or are complete evil geniuses.” Was that on purpose? Now he’s very relaxed and chilled.ĪUKN – Your answer actually leads to our next question, because you mentioned you saw Gaara on the character list and you expected to get him. We do a lot of video games as well, and in addition to your dialogue scenes you have pages with attacks sounds, getting hits, hurt, and killed and game after game we’re going “raargh ” morphing into the giant was quite harsh. Just on a technical level, on a physical level, voice-over is easy except for when you are shrieking your lungs out under the table and with Gaara he does a lot of raging. A fun prospect – and I had no idea where they were gonna go with it.ĪUKN – Does his growth makes it easier or more difficult to play Gaara? And I read very far into the future, but back when I first started, I think that he comes in Episode 20 and he is just our little red-headed murderer and he ends in a totally different place and I never saw that coming! He was the role that I hoped to get when I saw the big stack of character descriptions back when I auditioned years and years ago, because, well, you know, a ten year-old killer. I started as an actor and eventually I got tapped to adapt the script for the English dialogue track and also, whenever our grand ADR director Mary Elizabeth McGlynn isn’t available, I often come in and direct the show as well. I’ve been very involved with the show for a long time. O’Brien – It’s been really surprising to me.
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We were lucky enough to get a few minutes to talk to him.ĪUKN – Gaara has matured as character throughout the Naruto series what do you think of the growth of the character? The versatile Liam O’Brien, probably best known as the voice of Gaara in Naruto and Captain Ukitake in Bleach, visited London at the October 2012 London MCM Expo.
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