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Length: ~3hrs, 14 lessons
My rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)
My one-liner takeaway: Acting is really hard, but not impossible if you work at it.
I have no interest in voice acting, but I’m a huge fan of mimicking voices to amuse myself. Nancy Cartwright is famous for voicing animated cartoons, most notably Bart Simpson. This class goes into the specifics of what it takes to do the job, and how to do it well. Even though 90% of it was irrelevant to me, it helped me appreciate the skills needed to bring breathe life and personality to characters on screen. The remaining 10% I found relatable was in learning how I could use my voice to tell stories. Something I love doing is reading aloud to Leah, and I insist on making the dialogue as realistic as possible by whipping up accents or distinct speech patterns. Of course, what I’m doing is quite basic but it gives me a lot of joy, the same way a parent might read a bedtime story to a child.
If you’d like to hear it directly from Nancy, check out her course here. As of now there are over 100 instructors to learn from, with more being added every week!
This review is part of a larger series, where I try learning from every single course within the catalog. Find my full list here.