Acknowledgments

Thanks from both of us to our editors Katy Spencer, Chris Simpson, Georgia Kennedy, and Laura Lewin for their patience and help. Thanks to Brian Nefsky, Marc Cashman, Ginny Kopf, Jean Paul Orr, and Andrea Romano and others who gave us input about the book before we even started.

This book, and the accompanying CD, has been put together with a great deal of input from professionals in the business. Jean has written the book, and MJ has taken total charge of the CD. The sources were not always the same. Professionals have informed opinions, but not everyone agrees. Consequently, Voice-Over for Animation contains opinions that may sometimes differ in the details.

Jean Wright thanks MJ Lallo for taking charge of the CD and for all her help and advice with the book itself. Thanks to all who participated in the CD and to those who posed for pictures for the book. Thanks, too, to my family, who must be very tired of hearing, “I don’t have time right now.”

When I was working at Hanna-Barbera, many of the staff writers would develop a cartoon series and pitch the project doing some of the voices. If Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera liked those voices, then those writers might stay on as the voices of some of the characters they developed. As a former actress, that got my attention. It was what inspired me to learn animation voice-overs.

Women In Animation (WIA) has always been very supportive of animation voice-over talent—thank you. Thanks, also, to those members who have participated in the WIA voice-over and ADR groups. We all learned from each other and from our very helpful professional engineers.

For taking the time out of very busy schedules to be interviewed or check my facts, thanks especially to Brian Nefsky and to Bob Bergen, Lucille Bliss, Richard Epcar, June Foray, Raul Garcia, Gary Gillett, Michael Hack, Meredith Layne, J.C. O’Connell, Maureen O’Connell, Dr. Elliot Munjack, Tom Sito, Ellyn Stern, and Dave Williams.

I also thank those who taught classes and workshops and who appeared on panels that I was fortunate enough to attend over the years: Michael Bell, Noel Blanc, Susan Blu, Nancy Cartwright, Marc Cashman, Louise Chamis, Pat Fraley, Cynthia McLean, Ginny McSwain, Candi Milo, Andrea Romano, Deborah Sale, Bert Sharp, and Margaret Kerry Willcox. Thanks to the Pasadena Playhouse where I learned how to act and to Patricia Challgren, who taught speech and dialects there. Her speech book, our text, which was printed way back in 1943, is still available.

Thanks, too, to my other book sources, those who wrote books and articles on voice-overs and have voice-over information on Web sites, as well as those who were interviewed for the books and articles: Charlie Adler, James R. Alburger, Sarah Baisley, Jacque Barreau, Susan Berkley, Marc Cashman, Stephanie Ciccarelli, Elaine A. Clark, Stephen DeAngelis, Peter Drew, Jim Feldman, John Florian, Andreas Fuchs, Joseph Gilland, Lisa Goldman, Jesse Harlin, Heather Kenyon, Kireet Khurana, Ashish S. Kulkami, Pamela Lewis, Paul Liberti, Warren B. Meyers, Molly Ann Mullin, Gerry Poulos, Rodney Saulsberry, Laura Schiff, Cynthia Songé, Joe Strike, Glenn Whipp, Janet Wilcox, and Julie Williams.

MJ Lallo thanks all her students who participated in the recording of the CD—as well as all her mentors, such as Sue Blu, Ginney McSwain, Pat Fraley, and her agent Portia Scott Hicks at Acme Talent Agency.

Readers might want to check out the following Web sites that post voice-over information: