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How does the voice acting business work with Bryce Papenbrook

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Bryce Papenbrook has been doing voice acting since age 6 and has over 250 credits to his name. We spoke about his work, his inspirations, and voice acting in general at Anime USA 2019.

0:36 – Bryce talks about how he got into voice acting. His dad worked as a Power Ranger.

1:25 – Bryce talks about the strengths he has as a voice actor. This includes his training in martial arts.

2:47 – Bryce talks about how his career progressed in acting. He says having fun is important.

4:19 – Bryce talks about actually working in the booth to record.

5:44 – Bryce talks about his best roles. Some are the ones from Final Fantasy.

6:38 – Bryce talks about the people who inspired and mentored him.

8:17 – Bryce talks about how he approaches a voice and developing it.

9:06 – Bryce talks some challenging voices such as Henry from Fire Emblem Awakening.

10:30 – Bryce talks about the length of recording projects.

11:25 – Bryce talks about roles he would have liked to do.

12:40 – Bryce talks about roles he has coming up.

14:45 – Bryce talks about what he does to protect his voice.

15:45 – Bryce can be found on twitter and instagram @brycepappenbrook and on facebook @actorbrycepappenbrook

Links of Interest

https://amzn.to/2JpD3U3

https://twitter.com/BrycePapenbrook

https://www.facebook.com/ActorBrycePapenbrook/

https://www.instagram.com/brycepapenbrook/

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Guests: Bryce Papenbrook

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: anime, animation, power rangers, martial arts, seven deadly sins, final fantasy, fire emblem, awakening, tales of graces, wendy lee, spongebob, demon slayer, inosuke, war of underworlds, attack on titan, voice acting

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How to overcome shyness and become a successful anime voice actor with Daman Mills

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Check out his work in One Piece: Stampede here.

Daman Mills is a professional anime voice actor with over 120 character credits to his name. We sat down at Anime USA 2019 and spoke about his approach to his work and some of his daunting challenges in the voice acting world.

0:29 – Damon talks about how he got into voice acting. He started out introverted but kept practicing and got into indie projects.

1:52 – Damon talks about being shy.

2:20 – Damon talks about when he felt he had made it in voice acting.

3:18 – Damon talks about how he approaches voice acting.

3:55 – Damon talks about his strengths as a voice actor such as his vocal range.

5:03 – Damon talks about his approach to recording his parts.

6:50 – Damon talks about his voice inspirations.

8:02 – Damon talks about how he gets into character psyches.

8:43 – Damon talks about his most difficult roles including Freeza for Dragonball and One Piece Stampede.

11:06 – Damon talks about wanting to work in the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series.

13:08 – Damon talks about the time coding work he’s done.

13:56 – Damon mentions having to make some anime words more understandable to American audiences.

14:56 – Damon can be found on twitter and instagram @DamanMills and he’s on facebook as Daman Mills voice actor.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2thttOC (One Piece: Stampede)

https://twitter.com/DamanMills

https://www.instagram.com/damanmills/

https://www.facebook.com/DamanMillsVA/

Guests: Daman Mills

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: audio interviews, animation, tv shows, video games, anime convention, actor, podcast,

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Game of Thrones science – “Fire, Ice, and Physics” (MIT Press, 2019) – Rebecca Thompson interview

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Rebecca Thompson is a physicist who loves to teach and write about science. She spoke once about the science of Game of Thrones and then turned the idea into a really, cool book. We spoke about the book and what it took to research very different fields of science. Check out the book here.

0:31 – Rebecca mentions that the book is about the Game of Thrones books and movies and she explains how she got into writing it.

2:10 – Rebecca talks about how she applied science to the show but she didn’t want to ruin the story for anyone.

4:00 – Rebecca talks about how she laid the book out in themes.

5:38 – We talk about the power of ranged weapons. Rebecca then talks about the various scientific issues she looks at.

8:34 – Rebecca wanted to talk to someone who knows what it’s like to be athletic in the cold. She spoke to a marathoner about this.

10:14 – Rebecca talks about how much the book is about Game of Thrones versus the science.

11:48 – Rebecca compares the show to the books. The books mention a second moon that was destroyed in the past and that would have changed the weather.

15:30 – Rebecca talks about the genetic mixing issues with brother and sister incest.

23:07 – Rebecca talks about the science behind weaponry and swords.

25:12 – Rebecca talks about Valyrian steel and Damascus steel.

28:27 – Rebecca talks about the buildings in King’s Landing.

30:12 – Rebecca talks about uncovering the methods of making Damascus steel.

33:02 – Rebecca talks about how she researched the strange seasons in GoT.

35:39 – Rebecca talks about navigation at sea versus learning about scurvy.

38:38 – Rebecca mentions guillotine use and what she learned about dinosaurs and dragonflight.

41:54 – Rebecca talks about wild fire and investigating if it could be real.

46:35 – Rebecca talks about researching Shireen’s death.

49:34 – Rebecca talks about how she hopes that people feel okay with asking weird science questions.

54:33 – Rebecca talks about how Matt Smith’s Doctor Who broke his own rules all the time.

58:10 – Rebecca talks about a series of science-focused comics she wrote for young readers.

59:03 – Rebecca is mathlete79 on instagram and twitter.

Links of interest

Check out the book here.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fire-ice-and-physics

https://twitter.com/mathlete79?lang=en

https://www.instagram.com/mathlete79/

Guests: Rebecca Thompson

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, fantasy, game of thrones, physics, dragons, seasons, icewall, marathon, cold, zombies, white walkers, GRR Martin, skulls, weapons, swords, bronze age, iron age, damascus steel, valyrian steel, King’s landing, rabies, dinosaurs, ice fisherman, greek fire, wild fire, napalm, bergship, jon snow, doctor who

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