You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 147.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

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In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks, and insider information to help you're just getting started. In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable 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.

If you'd like to know more about me, feel free to check out my personal website at www.crispinfreeman.com.

Welcome to the second part of my interview with the mind-bogglingly talented, D. Bradley Baker.

Dee has worked on hundreds of animated movies and shows, including Cow and Chicken, Dexter's Lab,

The Box Trolls, American Dad, Avatar The Last Airbender, and Star Wars the Clone Wars,

just to name a few.

Dee has a special affinity for creature voices.

He's often called into voice characters that don't speak a human language,

but communicate through nonverbal sounds.

In part one of our interview, we discussed how Dee got started as a performer.

His root was a serendipitous one.

He did not follow any established plan or recipe for becoming an actor.

He didn't even take many acting classes. Instead, Dee let his guiding principle be to follow

what fascinated him. He was open to taking any job possibility that came his way as long as it

seemed interesting. If it also had a performance aspect, so much the better.

However, regardless of what he pursued, he always did it with gusto and discipline. He wasn't just

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