You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 211.

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.

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Welcome to the second and final part of my interview with the amazingly talented voice director, Amanda Wyatt.

Her resume includes games like Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, Ghost of Tsushima, Assassin's Creed 2,

and Batman Arkham Knight. I've been fortunate enough to work on many games with her,

including the Batman Arkham games, Halo Wars, and Horizon Zero Dawn.

It's always been a pleasure working with Amanda, so I was eager to have her on the podcast

so she could share her insights from a voice director's point of view with all of my listeners.

In the previous episode, Amanda told us how she originally got started as a voice director.

She shared the story of how she went from being a dancer in her youth, to working as a producer

at the famous audio production house Soundelux, to eventually apprenticing under voice director's

Chris Zimmerman and Gordon Hunt, so that she could become a voice director herself.

She learned so much from shadowing her

mentors, and she sees her responsibilities as twofold. First, she wants to foster a creative

environment, which will help inspire her actors to give their best performances. And second,

she needs to make sure that she keeps the production on time and on budget.

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