Chapter 167 - Voice Acting Applications (1/2)

Forgetfully, he played around with it for an entire morning. During the process of dubbing, Meng Fan also tried to control the appeal of his voice the same way he controlled his smile appeal in addition to controlling his sound. Simply put, it was how much emotion he was putting in. To put it in a more complicated manner, he was controlling the density of energy that was being put in.

Meng Fan’s original voice was average. The increased singing skill brought a wider vocal range, better tone, and sound quality in his voice. Even if he wasn’t completely stage-ready, his voice was very charming. If he spoke seriously, his emotions could be felt heartily. Meng Fan felt he could talk to Wu Tong in this voice, but it was a bit inappropriate to speak like so to anyone.

The thought of talking that way to Wu Tong made Meng Fan’s body tremble with silly laughter.

Including the time he spent yesterday, he had been practicing for a total of seven or eight hours. He was quite familiar with it, so he decided to carefully select a clip to dub and use it as his “resume”.

With his dubbing abilities, Meng Fan wanted to try actual voice acting and use his voice to shape a character in the process as well.

In this regard, Meng Fan had resources and connections. Meng Cai Wei aside, he made friends with a group of people through dubbing who had the same interest; there were several people in one group alone.

It wasn’t just voice dub enthusiasts in this group either since some were actual practitioners too, including voice actors, dubbing guides, vocal directors, and so on.

Of course, most of these practitioners worked through the internet or online dubbing, and they mostly participated in network dramas or online TV series. Most of them didn’t have professional backgrounds and were all enthusiasts like Meng Fan who didn’t have the proper education.

This was the largest group of dubbers in the industry as well.

Speaking of enthusiasm, making money had nothing to do with this group. It wasn’t that they had enough and didn’t care, but it was because they really couldn’t make money in this industry.

If they wanted to make money, they had to convert to the business sector which was basically commercial dubbing.

Simply put, dubbing in the business sector was essentially just famous people dubbing. These were the top practitioners in the dubbing industry and were very rare.

Not including the internet, nowadays as Chinese TV series come and go, it was basically the same four people in a relationship back and forth.

It was excessive, but this was a fact.

These four voice actors were not only incredible and trusted by the crew, but they also reflected the scarcity of Chinese voice actors.

The main reason for this scarcity, of course, was undoubtedly the low pay.

Several hobbyists had entered the profession based on their enthusiasm, but they quit after two or three years because they got jobs that actually filled their stomachs. There weren’t many people at the base of the pyramid, so there was less who emerge on top. Because of this, there weren’t many crews and production companies that specialized in this industry, so they could only give little pay. The less these films pay, the fewer people enter the industry.

This negative cycle had been going on for years.

But recently, with the booming development of the entire otaku industry, there was a bigger demand for dubbing for both animes and video games. This enabled more network partners and even businesses to have more choices and a larger development platform. At the same time, it further highlighted the value of voice actors, allowing the entire industry to move in a straight path.

For example, in the past, animes were usually introduced directly from Japan and America. There weren’t many that were aired on TV, so there were no Chinese dubs for them. The rest were screened online with the original soundtrack. There were some famous shows that were dubbed in Chinese, but those were all done by hobbyists free of charge.

Nowadays, the annual output of domestic animations was pretty high. As long as it was an animation, it would need voice actors. Since there was a demand, the salary naturally became high as well.