Michael D. Cohen's Creating Characters for Animation

Voiceover Lab

Los Angeles

Michael D. Cohen's Creating Characters for Animation

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Begins at 11:00 AM PDT
Check-in begins at: 10:45 AM PDT

2 Hours

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SYNOPSIS

In this workshop, we will focus on creating characters that are truthful, no matter how "cartoony" the show. We will work on how to identify the tone of the show, understand the text and explore your unique voice print to give life ot a variety of different characters


INSTRUCTOR BIO

Michael D. Cohen started as a voice over actor in Vancouver dubbing anime. He landed the series regular role of Ty Archer in Nelvana's Grossology and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. Other credits include It's a Small World, Vampirina, The Adventures of Kid Danger, Glisten and the Merry Mission and more. Michael teaches acting at his Michael D. Cohen Acting Studio as well as at the Groundlings, SAG-AFTRA and colleges around the country.


REQUIREMENTS

Copy will be provided by the Voiceover Lab.

Participants are expected to be present for the entire program.  See Duration above.

This is a small format class with a maximum capacity of 16 actors.  Each actor on the RSVP list will be an active participant.

Actors will learn new techniques and approaches to developing and voicing animation characters.  The information shared in this class will be very useful.  It will help expand your knowledge of animation voiceover and you will add new tools to your animation voiceover toolkit.