What/Who inspired you to be a Va?

[Nuti]

There were actually several random issues that poked me towards that direction.

Firstly, I'm interested in voices as part of character designs: often when I create my own character, I want to know what they sound like, and often I browse voice actors to think about it. At some point, I started to think about what what if I could voice some of my own characters...

Secondly, I have watched some awesome fandubs and parodies in Youtube, and I was amazed to hear how non-professional people were able to create so much fun stuff. Especially I was amazed with encountering fandubs where the very same actor acted several characters and still was easily able to keep the voices notably different.

Thirdly, and much to annoy my family members and acquaintances, I simply like to goof around with my voice. That made the idea of voice acting to sound simply fun - if I could voice act well, it would be an amazing platform to create comedy. I'm a bit clown by my personality, and I already love drawing joke drawings.

And finally, I'm undergoing speech therapy right now. (My problem is that I'm unable to slow down my speech in normal conversation, even if I can slow down when acting or giving representations. Weird, I know, but that's really the problem.) I mentioned my speech therapist that I'm interested in voice acting and I like to goof around with my voice (I had already made some private voice acting testing). She warmly encouraged me to continue playing with my voice and doing voice acting - in her opinion, it's excellent training for normal speech, too, plus it would make me know better my speech organs and thus ease the control of my speech in normal situations, too.

[Data Human]

Definitely Billy West. It all started when, in a moment of pure boredom, I decided to watch all the audio commentaries for my old Futurama DVD's. My mind was completely blown when I found out that the same guy did the voice of fry, zoidberg, and the professor. It's still a secret dream of mine to someday be part of an audio commentary for the DVD of a cartoon I'm starring in.

[DylanB]

Mines isn't that interesting I think. When i was little I just always had this unique voice and could Mimic My mom, and a few other people when i was little. My grandpa (whose 90 years old) did a lot of radio work when he was a young teen/young man before WWII and he used to play pranks some of the stuff I know is form him. the other stuff is form when i was really sick my friend worked at Disney and She got me to come visit her. there I met Tony Anselmo (Donald Duck) he was doing some voices and we started talking and he taught me how to do Donald Duck. So After doing a few voice over sessions for Disney, and been voice acting since 2001.

[the-manneh]

When I was in the fourth grade, there was a talent show that I didn't really care much to go to, but a friend of mine heard me do imitations of Looney Tunes and after mentally fighting myself, I volunteered to go in front of my fourth grade class and do the voices.

Needless to say, after doing the Bugs/Elmer and the Sylvester/Tweety and the other ones, the class applauded...

Years later, I re-remembered that day in fourth grade and after being told (by my former boss, mind you) that I have a "phone sex" voice and figured "why not try out voice acting".

[Spider-Fan]

John Di Maggio and Tara strong (aka the lady that plays in almost everything) And also, whenever i watched clips of people VAing, i always thought "Man, that looks like so much fun."

[N-Sz]

I think it was when I saw that David Firth (Salad Fingers, Spoilsbury Toast Boy, Jerry Jackson) put up an audition for his feature film "Meadow Man". That was a few years ago and he's still working on it. I didn't start trying out for voice acting until recently, but that had been sitting in the back of my mind all that time.

[Harmonics]

Nancy Cartwright - she is so funny. She's my favorite voice actress.

However Yuri Lowenthal, Wendee Lee, Crispin Freeman and Kari Whalgren all inspired me to follow a career in voice acting too .

[InsomniacVA]

3 words fillies and gentlecolts: Johnny. Yong. Bosch. Johnny Bosch really has the sort of career I would love to have in the (near) future. He has done SO MANY characters over the years, not only in anime, but also in cartoons and video games while still doing live action performances like Hellbinders and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Plus, he's the lead singer in one of my favorite bands of all time--Eyeshine.

But, I think I was probably going to chase after the voice acting career before I even knew it existed. When I was little I used to play make-believe (like all children) and because my siblings were 5 & 6 years older than me I usually wound up playing alone, thus I had to do all the parts in my stories, and I wasn't content to just use the same voice for every character. Oh no, everybody needed to have their own distinct voice. As I grew up I started just doing voices for fun, and some times using them when I was telling a story, or reading to myself. Then I got into theatre, and that gave me a chance to learn all sorts of accents and etc, and allowed me to do one of my other favorite things, which is singing. I always loved it when I would get a character with an accent or a particular way of talking; it was a challenge, and I just enjoy doing different things with my voice.
A year or two ago I began doing Let's Plays on YouTube, and I always do the voice of the character I'm playing, and some times the bosses. Doing this little bit of voice over work only fueled my desire to do REAL voice acting.

As a gamer/otaku/brony/thespian/nerd I spend a good deal of my "down time" watching some form of cartoon/anime, or playing a video game, or singing something. I enjoy those things; and I think it's true with most people that when they really enjoy something, maybe even love it, they want to become more involved with it. That's my story. I don't know if you can really say I was inspired to try voice acting, but I certainly developed a passion for it without even trying.

[InsomniacVA]

3 words fillies and gentlecolts: Johnny. Yong. Bosch. Johnny Bosch really has the sort of career I would love to have in the (near) future. He has done SO MANY characters over the years, not only in anime, but also in cartoons and video games while still doing live action performances like Hellbinders and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Plus, he's the lead singer in one of my favorite bands of all time--Eyeshine.

But, I think I was probably going to chase after the voice acting career before I even knew it existed. When I was little I used to play make-believe (like all children) and because my siblings were 5 & 6 years older than me I usually wound up playing alone, thus I had to do all the parts in my stories, and I wasn't content to just use the same voice for every character. Oh no, everybody needed to have their own distinct voice. As I grew up I started just doing voices for fun, and some times using them when I was telling a story, or reading to myself. Then I got into theatre, and that gave me a chance to learn all sorts of accents and etc, and allowed me to do one of my other favorite things, which is singing. I always loved it when I would get a character with an accent or a particular way of talking; it was a challenge, and I just enjoy doing different things with my voice.
A year or two ago I began doing Let's Plays on YouTube, and I always do the voice of the character I'm playing, and some times the bosses. Doing this little bit of voice over work only fueled my desire to do REAL voice acting.

As a gamer/otaku/brony/thespian/nerd I spend a good deal of my "down time" watching some form of cartoon/anime, or playing a video game, or singing something. I enjoy those things; and I think it's true with most people that when they really enjoy something, maybe even love it, they want to become more involved with it. That's my story. I don't know if you can really say I was inspired to try voice acting, but I certainly developed a passion for it without even trying.

[EruptedBlood]

My inspiration was Lucas Gilbertson, who amazingly voiced Zero in the game Megaman Maverick Hunter X. He voiced in many games and animes also. Check him out.