When it comes to animated series, I am always interested in looking behind the curtain to see how it all comes about. Particularly the voice talent, as many of these people (Seth McFarlane, Dan Castellaneta, Billy West) do a variety of voices for just one episode. Now, thanks to YouTube, we get to see a little bit of that behind the scenes material at the Family Guy studios.
The video features Seth McFarlane (Peter Griffin and Stewie, among others), Mila Kunis (Meg) and other company members as they do their lines for an episode of the series. What's interesting to see is how many times these voice actors go through their dialogue to get it right. What is also interesting is the fact that many of these actors perform their lines solo; I always pictured a lot of back and forth between the actors. Despite how many times the lines are read, and whether or not the readings are in a group or solo, the end result is fairly smooth when you watch the final episode on TV.
To see the video, check after the jump.
[Thanks to Michael at betapundit]
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7-14-2006 @ 12:12PM
dvddesign said...
It's not really much of a suprise they record separately. When you have so many elements of a show to put together it's easier to have separated recordings of voices. Timing and looping become easier when you have isolated voices and tracks, and putting people together in the recording booth means that they have re-read whole parts of dialog instead of just piecing it together, which would be much faster.
When dealing with Family Guy though... Seth does so many of the voices on his own, it's really not the case. He's admitted to just running through scenes with Brian, Peter, Stewie, and Quagmire voices just swapping out as needed.
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7-14-2006 @ 1:49PM
Jen said...
Two surprises for me: 1. Cleveland is voiced by a white guy, 2. Seth McFarlane looks just like Peter Brady.
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9-20-2006 @ 6:20AM
fast cars said...
A lots of gesticulation there. They make their job from all soul.
Congratulations !
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10-06-2006 @ 2:24PM
mobile phones said...
This is happen when you love what you do
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