You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 117.

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tips, tricks and insider information to help you portray characters in animation, video games,

and beyond. And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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Welcome to the first part of my interview with a woman who seems to have so many different

abilities that it's difficult to know quite how to categorize her. America Young has worked as a

voice actress, an on-camera actress, a commercial actress, and a stunt performer, in addition to

directing and producing her own films.

She's been working in the entertainment industry in one form or another since she was six years old.

Her breadth of experience is truly astounding, and I could spend multiple episodes just talking about the various projects she's worked on.

However, for the purposes of this podcast, I decided to focus on America's voice acting resume and how she was able to translate her theatrical and stunt experience

into becoming a motion capture actress. One of the most interesting developments in the

entertainment industry in the past decade or so has been

the incorporation of motion capture performances into films and video games. Motion capture, also

called performance capture, is a means of recording an actor's performance not on film, but digitally

inside the virtual 3D space of a computer. This allows animators to then manipulate that

performance and use it to bring characters to life in films and video games. Motion capture is

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