Stop hiring celebrities and bring back real voice actors!

[theemii]

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"for the vast majority of animation's history, professional voice actors were hired to bring the characters to life. but in the 21st century that's changed, with celebrities being cast instead for their name recognition to be used as a marketing tactic. this has resulted in chris pratt, james corden, jack black, and awkwafina dominating the voice

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[astraie]

Awkwafina's voice for Scuttle still haunts me to this day

[m14mouse]

She is so bad...and she shows up in EVERYTHING!

[vazabroc]

[daredevilwolf]

it's lin manuel miranda's fault

[nigelwitthebrie]

The only way voice acting will have a resurgence is if the general public boycotts the animated films.

But let’s be real Hollywood has been lazy with everything for the past 2 decades.

[quinnmorgendorf]

Lindsay Ellis has a video about this too:

[mhfromnh]

well, I know what I'm doing tonight.

[etoile_amore]

so real, there's an endless stream of incredible VAs working in games, anime, etc.

[moirasrose]

I fully believe the reason they didn’t have Shadow say anything at the end of Sonic 2 is because they didn’t want to get in a situation like they did with Tails where fans stood up for Colleen. They would have recast Tails with some famous name.

There are screen actors who can voice act so I’m not completely against them, but the ones that are like “lol it’s an easy paycheck. i just come to work in my pajamas.” and have no respect for the craft can fuck off.

[daredevilwolf]

get ready to get angry

[sandstorm]

I will say that I don't really like any of the modern VAs for Shadow, but I don't think Keanu was the best choice.