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Hnilmik
Been voice acting for 9 years and still doing it! Email at kimlinhtranvo@gmail.com if you want me to check out your voice acting opportunity!

Kimlinh Tran @Hnilmik

Age 34, Female

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Southern CA, USA

Joined on 6/2/08

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Voice Matching and Making Progress into the Biz!

Posted by Hnilmik - June 16th, 2011


XD Still busy catching up on all the stuff I owe. Still ridiculously picky about what projects I'm gonna take on 'cause I really need to spend more time on making my demo and breaking into the biz like I planned. Seriously, I'm WAY overdue with a demo and there're so many more opportunities out there if I have one!

Oh, and trust me, I'm making progress into the biz! I just can't talk too much about it 'til I'm allowed to, so the least I can do is do what I've been doing online to "speed up the releasing process" (more like making the wait bearable): Voice in so many things that when they get released on their own time, it'll be like a constant stream of stuff coming out! Like below!

Voice Acting: Released Projects

Cheromanchequois - I voice for Lolita in this awesome animation Pixmintro put together, with my friend D-Mac as a co-star!

"It's A Mad World, Charlie Brown" - I voice for Lucy Van Pelt once again in this Charlie Brown animation, wonderfully put together by NEXTVIEW-Designs and Joeseph Hyata~! My good pally Amanda made her flash animation debut as the adorable voice of Sally Brown~! And Denten needs a Newgrounds account for me to link to.

I voice for Farah, the freckled red-head in this officially sponsored MapleStory web series, animated by CirrusEpix!

Did my Lucy sound ridiculously close to the original? Wanna hear more voice matching!? Yeah, this is "old", but my pal Edwyn actually recorded the part of Gemini Rue that I'm in... I voice for Ed (from Cowboy Bebop)!

And since I love the crap outta linking names, here're my other buddies who're in that video~
Motly - Spike
Antfish - Jet
DragonKnightTara - Faye

And D-Mac is still awesome for making the casting happen~ Oh! And I can't believe I forgot Darkwolf, the assistant casting dude!

We voice peeps stick together, yo~

The stuff you probably skip is at the END this time!

Graduated with a BA in Screenwriting, with honors! Here're my final grades:

Advanced Screenwriting = A
Camera Acting = A
World Geography = A
Comedic Improv = A
Comedic Writing = B+

D8< !!

I've mostly been saving up my monies for more voice acting classes, but whoa... Convention season... Will I be at Anime Expo!? Comic-Con!? WE'LL SEE!!

Here, have an old sketch I did months ago.


Comments

Gee Wilickers giant news post Batman!! ( nice work - you've got some huge talent - glad to see you are making some headway in the voice acting world )

Yaaaaaayy~~ Thanks!

Nice to hear that you're breaking into the biz! Also, AWESOME grades, with those grades and your talent, you will go far!

8D Looking forward to it!

Thankoo~

Crocodile gonna eat that girl there lol,wow you voiced that in maple story?Nice well hope your other stuff do good :)

That croc is buddies with that girl~

And thanks~!

Hey Hnil, think you can help me out for a second?

I'm looking for college classes that teach acting and voice-over work like the one you just graduated from (gratz btw). The problem is, i don't know which specific class would be the one to start from, and then work my way up. Should I pursue a degree in screenwriting as well? Or are there other classes that might help me out in the long run?

thanks.

xP Keep in mind that I was enrolled in 2 colleges simultaneously for the senior year of university.

Personally, I believe if you're resourceful enough, lots of classes even outside of acting and speech can help (psychology, communications, writing, etc.). However, I highly suggest speech and acting classes. Interpretive reading, improv, and scene study classes are just a few I can name in acting/theatre classes (and I wish I could name more, but I wasn't enrolled in that major). Acting foundations are so important that I recommend any acting class you can get, though remember that acting for different media offers different challenges. Acting for the stage is different from acting on camera is different from voice acting.

Interpretive reading was actually listed as a speech class, along with public speaking and my first voice acting class, voice and diction. Keep in mind that I was lucky voice and diction was taught by a voice actress; Most voice and diction classes are made to iron out speech issues, like clinging accents and enunciation problems--Those are still important though and hell, Rina-chan learned effective breath control from her voice and diction class, as did I.

And to be completely honest, I only enrolled in screenwriting because: "Hey! I'm good at writing, I love telling stories, and I can view storytelling from a writer's perspective!" + the entertainment industry tends to have a lot of crossing over. To put it in the most blunt way, I thought it'd be a day job while pursuing voice acting, but it's actually another starving artist job--I'd only recommend screenwriting if you're ridiculously passionate about telling a good story and learning how, not a pretentious douchebag who takes it lightly. I love storytelling and my grades clearly show that I'm at least decent at it, if not good, but I'm not as passionate about writing as a lot of my classmates, who can easily finish 90 pages (roughly 90 minutes of screen time) between a week and a month. I struggle just to get 20-60 after a whole semester.

Everyone's path into voiceover is different. For instance, several people went into voice acting after doing acting for theatre, some didn't have any acting experience, but learned how to while transitioning in from doing radio. Hell, watch "Adventures in Voice Acting" documentary to see tons of other people's way into the biz. I guarantee you that everyone's way in is different, so you can't just throw away 4 years of your life following someone else's path when you should forge and follow your own.

Hopefully this helps and best of luck.

hi i think i find those games very wierd and adicting well anyway hi