unmasking animation voice actors
Many voice actors know the names and faces of our more famous voice actoing brethren (and sisteren) who star in popular American animation TV series (you could throw animated movies in there but those castings always feel more about “movie star power” than anything else).
Some of us are even good enough to be able to identify an actor’s voice in animation or commercials on the first listen.
But what about the general public – do they particularly care what these voice actors look like?
I ask the question because on the Fox News web site today they featured a section called “TV Cartoon Stars Unmasked”.
Basically it’s a slide show of cartoon characters with a head shot of the voice actor next to it. Nice and deserved recognition for the actors, to be sure, but I’m just not sure the public really cares (and that is not meant as any slam to the actors).
What do you think?
Unfortunately I think you’re right. Unless they are also famous for something else, voice over actors are seldom recognized by the average viewer.