Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The third and final part of my History of Voice Over series!! Let's cover the boom of tv animation, videogames, the animation renaissance, and the future of VO! Is being a voice actor a dying job?

PART 1: youtube.com/watch?v=40VEoAeZIto
PART 2: youtube.com/watch?v=YTDSlqTMcEM

0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Hanna-Barbera
1:44 - Frank Welker
4:50 - Vader's Real Voice
7:00 - American's Cartoon Slump & Renaissance
7:28 - 🎵 The Simpsoonnnnsss... 🎵
7:55 - 90s Cartoons Boom
9:35 - Audiobooks
11:01 - First Voices of Video Games
14:47 - Motion Capture
18:19 - The Celeb Invasion
19:55 - VO *Today*
22:55 - The Scary Future of VO....
24:35 - The End! Yay!

SOME SOURCES:
just everyone should know about: iwanttobeavoiceactor.com
Article on Loop Groups: hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hollywood-loop-groups-background-actors-1235013426
Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture by Jason Mittell
Magnetic Recording: The First 100 Years edited by C. Denis Mee, Eric D. Daniel, Mark H. Clark
Something New Has Been Added by Virgil L. P. Blake: archive.org/details/SomethingNewHasBeenAdded
Audiobooks: ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/market-size/audiobook-publishing-united-states
Muse and Early Games:
archive.org/details/Electronic_Games_Volume_01_Number_04_1982-06_Reese_Communications_US/page/n21/mode/2up?view=theater
filfre.net/2012/04/castle-wolfenstein
filfre.net/2012/01/silas-warner-and-muse-software


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