You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 187.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

Voiceactingmastery.com is your place to learn both the skills and the mindset you need to

become a professional voice actor, even if 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.crispinfremant.com.

Welcome back to the second and final part of my interview with voice actor and voice director, Lucian Dodge.

You may know Lucian's voice acting work from anime, including Sailor Moon, Gundam the Origin,

mobile suit Gundam Hathaway, Sword Art Online, Demon Slayer, and Fate Zero.

He's also worked on games such as Dust and Elysian Tale, League of Legends, Mad Max, and Smite.

Lucian also voiced directed me in the dub of the anime Yasha Hime Princess Half Demon,

where I played the main antagonist, Kirin Maru.

We had such a great time working together that I was eager to get him on the podcast,

to talk about his own voice acting experiences and his approach to the art form. In this

episode, Lucian describes what inspired him to become a voice actor and how therapeutic the process

of acting was for him, especially early in his career. He goes on to talk in detail about the

Meisner acting technique, and how foundational it was in helping him develop his

own acting skills to a professionally competitive level.

We then discuss how a technique like Meisner applies to playing cartoony characters, and how

...