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1. Intro: Hi, I'm Kelly Metzger. I'm a voice actress based
in Vancouver, Canada, and I'm best known for
voicing the role of Nia on the hit cartoon Ninjago. Welcome to my fourth
skill share class. VoiceOver for Animation, voicing a digital
Christmas card. This is a special holiday class, and I have a great little
project for you to work on. Join me in the next video, and I'll tell you all about it. Hitting you Cookie cookies.
2. The Project: Jingu, jingo, quench, quench. I'm excited to share
the project with you. Okay. I've created
an animated plate of cookies with Procreate. Their mouths move. I've written a short
little script, and I want you to provide
the voices for it. This guy? This guy. And this guy. In the project resources tab, you will find the
script that you can download and an
animated MP four file. So what you need for this
class is a smartphone, a personal computer with basic editing software
I'm going to use I Movie. And then once I show
you how to take your voice file and match it up to the animation
that I've created, you can also use a free Canva account to change the
formatting of the file so that you can post
it on social media or you can send it to
your friends and family as a text message. It's just a cute little
digital Christmas card where you can showcase your sense of humor and the
funny voices you do. And we can take what
you've been learning in my previous classes and
make something out of it. I'm really excited to work
on this project with you. Join me in the next video, and we'll get started
with the first lesson. You Coopi Cookies.
3. Let's Begin: Blessings. We're
going to work on this project as if you've just received an audition
from your agent. And the audition is for a
digital Christmas card. And the actor that they're
going to pick is the one who can do three
distinct voices. So, you get your email, you download the script. You have downloaded the PDF from the Project Resources
tab of this course. And you see, okay, gingerbread Mom, Gingerbread
Man, gingerbread Girl. Now, whatever, man. You can make it any
gender. I don't care. I want to see you do three different characters.
That's what I'm looking for. And if the voice seems opposite than what the
character appears as. That might be a
hilarious choice, and it might be the thing
that helps you book the job, just doing something totally unexpected. Let's go for that. You have the script. I've also put the timestamp of how
long you have to record each of these lines because
this is going to be a little bit like how we would record in
anime or dubbing, where the cartoon has come from another country and now you have to dub over
in English, let's say. The mouth flaps
are already there, just like the animation
that I have made for you. The mouth flaps
are already there. The time that you have to
say these lines is set. So we're going to
experiment with that. Can you bring this character to life in the amount of
time that you have? Because there's two
types of cartoons. There's prelay where
the actors record their voice first and then the animators draw from
that or there's dubbing, where we are dubbing
our voices over a pre animated show that already appeared in
a different language, and now they want
an English version, so we have to find all
the acting beats and get the script into the mouse
flaps that they've already made and make it look
as best as we can. That's what I want you to do for this digital Christmas card. Let me show you what I
did, okay? Blessings. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Gingo Gingo, clutch, clutch. So pretty silly. The first
character says blessings. The second character says, Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. And the third character says, jingle jingle crunch crunch. So you can make your voices
be whatever you wanted. After experimenting, that's
what I came up with. Let me show you just
the blank version of the file that you're
going to download. So as you can see the mounds
are moving in a certain way. And then it flips to
different characters. It's about 12 seconds long. That's it. Okay, so you've downloaded that
animated MP four. You've downloaded the script. Now I want you to get your
smartphone out and go into a private quiet place
where you can be silly and you're going to make a couple voice memos
on your phone, and we're going to work
on these voices together. Come with me into
my home studio, AKA, my closet, and I'm going to work on
these with you. Let's go. Crazy cookies.
4. Many Blessings : Don't forget to
brush your teeth. Welcome to the
luxurious home studio of a Canadian voice actor. Pretty simple stuff here. If you haven't taken
my classes before. This is just my closet, where I use my clothing
to absorb the sound. I put some foam mattress on the wall to help
absorb some of the sound. I've got a music stand with
a carpet over top of it. I've got a carpet on the floor, and this is where the
magic happens, people. So yeah, let's work
on this together, and it will give me a chance
to find some more voices for my little plate of cookies
digital Christmas card. I'm excited. It's
pretty silly stuff. Yeah. Let's start
with first character. All she says or he or
whatever you want, whatever kind of voice you
want, this is up to you. This is your creativity. You could have this pretty
little gingerbread lady with a bow and little icing eyelashes and you could talk like this, which is what I did
on the first one. I made her go Blessings. Blessings. Sometimes when you're auditioning for things like radio commercials or
something like that, you are just auditioning
for one line, one sentence, and they want something that pops
and they want to fast. Let's see if we can make a whole character out
of the word blessings. I'm going to keep this
really simple because I don't want you to
get bogged down by thinking that you
need a whole bunch of equipment when you're just
in the learning stage of your career and you're just learning
how to do voice overs, don't start getting
all this equipment. You have to work on the
fundamental skills first. Let's work with what you got. Everybody's got a smartphone. Let's find the voice memos or voice record on your smartphone and make a voice file out of that. I'll do the same thing. Okay, it's just a cute little
Chubby Christmas card and she's introducing you
to this whole plate of cookies and giving
you a holiday wish. Let's just say blessings in a whole bunch
of different ways. Now, if you've taken
previous courses with me, someplace I like
to start when I'm developing a character
is different resonators. Where in my face and
my body am I going to have my voice resonate
to change it? Is it going to be in my nose? Is it going to be a little
character that says, Oh, let me play voice record so that I'm just going to
start recording right now. Let's place voice memos and
just record what we're doing. Blessings. Blessings.
Oh, Blessings. Oh, let's make it
like a grumpy mum. Blessings. Let's make it a nice, kind grandma. Blessings.
Oh, Blessings. Um, we could make the character. Let's imagine the character
has a lot of weight on them. What does that feel
like in your body? Oh, it makes my voice dip a lot lower and my
resonating now in my body. Blessings. Oh, blessings. Let's say it in a
fun, happy way. Blessings. Blessings. Blessings.
Let's say it in a grumpy, tired way. Blessings blessings. Blessings. No, we have 1.2
seconds to say this word. Let's give ourselves
lots of choices so that when we get to the
editing part of this, we have something
that actually fits. Um, what else should we
do? What's another way? Should we make that
maybe talk like this, like there were no
old news time person. That's what it is. Blessings. Oh, blessings. Oh, I keep going to
the grandma again. Oh, Blessings. Oh. Maybe I'm gonna make it, like, a little fairy, like
Glinda the Good. I just watched the Wizard
of Oz this weekend. Blessings? Oh. Blessings.
Blessings Blessings. P see, I'm just playing around
and seeing what comes out. I'm saying it over
and over again. Some of these are
going to be good. Some of these are
going to be bad. Some of these are going
to be almost right. This is a silly course. This is a course in siliness. I want you to come up
with all different ideas and say blessings many times
and make a little file, and then we'll say I'm done. Let's label it. Labeling is important
for finding things. We'll let's call this blessings. And then multiple takes. So we've done that. We've
created a character. Also, if you don't
feel like you have your character yet,
keep experimenting. Put it in different resonators, in your nose, resonator. In your chest, resonator. Deep down low in the swamp. If you do accents, maybe try it with
different accents. Imagine different things
with s. Maybe you could imagine that it has
swampy looks and you say, Blessings or
something like that. Or you could put different
emotions into it. Like, they're sad blessings. We're happy Blessings. There's all variety of different choices
that you can make. And then when we put it all together, you pick
your favorite one. All right. Join me
in the next video, and we'll work on the
main gingerbread man. He has the most to say.
So let's find his voice. I'll see you in the next video. Coy, cookie.
5. Brush Your Teeth, Sweetie: Sings. Okay. Now we're going to work on the Gingerbread Man. He has
a little bit more to say. He is the body of the card, the body of the message, and you have 6.7 seconds
to get it all out. So the script is
don't forget to brush your teeth after all those
sweet treats, sweetie. Let's watch the animation
to see how much he moves. And don't forget to
brush your teeth after all the sweet
treats, sweetie. Oh, I meant too fast. I animate him to go
E a couple of times. Like sweet treat, sweetie. See if we can get it
to match up there. Don't forget to boh you tea. After all those sweet treats, sweetie. There we go. What kind of character do you want your
gingerbread man to be? Now, he's the hero. So you
could use your own voice. If you have a rich
resident voice or a really unusual character voice as your normal speaking voice, put that in, showcase that. Maybe because I'm a mom, I got a little bit of a little lecture or lesson
into this animation? I don't know. I'm always
telling people what to do. Is that why I wrote this line? Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Maybe I want this little gingerbread man to
be a little mom, a mom character, a naggy mom, but still a little bit friendly. So, I guess I'm going to use my own authentic
naggy mom voice. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Oh, let me press voice memos. Let me get in the voice memos
again so that here we go. Going to press record
and make a new take. This is the gingerbread man. Or the naggy gingerbread, Mum. 6.7 seconds. Let's try it a few ways. I'm gonna start with
my normal voice, and then play around and
see what I feel like doing. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. I have a feeling I'm going
faster than I need to. I'm going to look
at the animation. It helps because I have an iPad, and I'm going to try
and match the voice. Now, I also have to have the acting intention
behind what I say. It's not just about
matching the mouth flaps. I have to match the mouse
flaps and try and speak like a normal person would speak so that you can
understand what I'm saying. Let's try it. I
know that at first, the first character
says Blessing, so I watch that
mouse a little bit. And then I know I'll have to go down to the gingerbread man. I think the beginning, I
speak a little bit slowly, and I'm going to keep
looking for the sounds, the movements of that mouth to let me know what I'm supposed
to be saying, sweet treats. W supposed to be saying teeth, sweet treats and sweetie. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Too fast. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Now it's too slow. Try it. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Hm. Can't quite get to line up. I know what I did
the first time, I found that when I made this character a
little bit anxious, like you had a lot
of emotion about the fact that everybody's eating a lot of junk
food this Christmas, and they need to take
care of their teeth. And so don't forget about that. So maybe I'm going to kind of put that emotion into it and see where it takes my voice and where it
takes the sentence. Let's see. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all
those sweet treats, sweetie. Maybe I'll try one more time, but a little bit faster. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Mmm. No. I feel like my character's voice is
getting a little bit high. Maybe I want to make it low. Maybe I want to turn it into my little boy voice
where I get a little bit huskier
than somehow some I'm doing something like
this with my mouth. I don't know why I'm
doing this with my mouth, but sometimes helps me. I'm going to make this
little boy character. Oh, there, here we
go. He's bossy. He's a boss. Here he comes. Tell you, Listen, if you're
gonna eat all these cookies, don't forget to
brush your teeth, but then I'm gonna make
it okay at the end, 'cause I'm gonna call you
sweetie. Okay, ready? Here. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all the
sweet treats, sweetie. Hm. Still a bit fast. I think
I got to just slow down. So maybe what will help me is I need more intention
behind the words. Okay. I got my character. He's gonna kind of
sound like this. And I'm gonna try it. I'm not gonna get too focused
on the mouth movements. Let's see what I do. Okay. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. I think that's pretty
good. Press done. Let's label this as Gingerbread
Man, multiple takes. Then when I go to
edit this together, I can pick the best one. I can pick the one that I act the best and
also the one that matches with the timing the
best. That's a long file. That's going to be hard to edit. Okay. Now that I've experimented and I look how long
my voice memo is, it's 4 minutes and 20
seconds. That's too long. I need this to be simple for me because I'm not
a great editor. I'm going to just give myself four or five takes
of this sentence. I'm going to do two as the mom. And then I'm going to do three
as the kind of little boy. Let's do a new one.
I'm just going to say this sentence
over and over again. Maybe I'll try it a couple times when I'm watching the animation. No, I'm not going
to watch animation. Let's see if I can do it
without watching the animation. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Maybe another one of her.
Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those
sweet treats, sweetie. Okay, now I'm gonna
do a couple as a boy. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Fingers crossed. Let's hope
out of those six takes, something is around 6.7
seconds and is going to match up to the mouse flaps. I'm gonna label this
sweetie, six Ts. Join me in the next video, and we're going to do the final little punch line of
our digital card, which is the cute little
gingerbread girl. She just has a
couple cute things to say at the end to
tie it all together. I'll see you in the next video. Susan grid. Privy cookies Sweetie.
6. Jingle Jingle: Gingo, Gingo quit quit. Let's work on this cute
little girl character. Let's take a look at the
animation again. Here she is. She's got a cute little bow. You can make her
sound like anything. Juxtaposing what she looks like and what voice you
create might be a hilarious little ding button on the end of this
digital Christmas card. But I specialize in cute voices. So I'm probably going to matrix. Eight. And she's just
going to say a jingle, jingle, crunch crunch or you don't need to put that
in there if you want. You can just make it jingle,
jingle, crunch crunch. Let's see. Let's watch
your mouth move. There it is. It's pretty fast. So we can watch the whole
thing. We have Blessings. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all the sweet
treats, sweetie. A tingle, jingle,
crunch, crunch. Feel like that's the
easiest one out of all the little characters
I made to animate. I found Instagram is a great resource for
different types of voices. I have a little saved playlist of voice refs where if I hear somebody talk on Instagram that has an unusual
character voice, I'm like, oh, that might
be good for an audition. I just save it. You can find references for
different voices everywhere. But this for her, maybe
she is like a widow kid. I jingle, jingle, quench, quench, or maybe I want
her to talk like that. So this why I'm going to try and I'll get on my
voice memos again. Here we start again. Here we go. I'm just going
to say a couple of times. And she's a little girl. I jingle jingle, quench, quench. Jingle, jingle, quench, lunch. And I can make it
have a happy one. A jingle, jingle, Cinch, crunch. Or let's do one that's exciting. A jingle, jingle,
crunch, crunch. Well, let's do one, maybe
that's a little bit nervous. Just as an acting exercise. Jingle, jingle, quench, clench. Let's see what it's sad. Jingle, jingle, quench, quench. Maybe she's sad 'cause she's going to get eaten she's just so delicious and she knows she's
about to get chomped up. H's do one where she's mad? Jingle, jingle, crunch, crunch. There you go. This
one is 2.7 seconds, so it's a little bit
slower than the blessings. Again, experiment. I'm going to label this
file as crunch crunch, multiple takes. Don't
overthink this. If you have your
voices that come out, you're like, Oh, I
always do this voice. Show me your best voice. We're going to send this to
your family and friends. Show me your best stuff.
Don't overthink it. Just get silly, try
different takes. That's it. Well, that's it for making up our voices and making
our little voice memos. In the next video,
we're going to do the more technical
part where we take the animated MP four and we upload it into the
basic editing software, and we upload your voice files as well, and we match them up, and we make the first version of our little card with
your voices on it. I'll see you in the next video. You, Cookie, Cookies.
7. Editing the Vocal Tracks onto the Animation: Thanks. Jim. Hello, my friends.
Okay, let's do it. Let's take the voice memos that we made for our different characters in our
different lines, and attach them to the little animated cookies
that I made for you. Follow along with me. We'll
figure this out together. First thing I'm going
to do, I'm on MacBook, so I'm going to use I Movie. I'm going to
walk you through that. If you have a PC, my partner tells me there is basic editing software on that, I'll let you
figure that out. But if you have an
E movie program on your MacBook or I will
walk you through that. I've opened up IMVe'm going
to start a new project, a movie, and I'm going
to import my media. So I'm going to go to my
downloads. There it is. Okay. This is I'm going to press command and highlight all of
those voice files for my three
different characters. Then I'm also going to press
this little arrow here. I called it Brush your teeth? Oh, yeah. I found my file that I labeled
brush your teeth. What am I going to
label it for you? Yeah, I'm going to
label that file, brush your teeth MP four. That's the file that
you will download from the project resources.
I'm going to import that. Now, I'm going to drag that into the video.
What is the first one? The first one, let's
see what this one is. I'm going to put it underneath. That's the blessings, yes. First of all, anything
that's yellow, that means I've blown up my mic. I want to lower the sound
so that nothing that I said is above the
yellow that turns yellow. Let's just give it a listen. Blessings. Blessings. Blessings.
Blessings. Let's make nice kind grandma Blessings. I'm listening to my options. I think closer to the beginning. I'm going to go back
to the beginning and start listening and
see which ones I like here. Play again. I heard some of Blessings. Blessings. Blessings.
Let's make it a grumpy. I think I liked some of those. I'm going to chop
this up a little bit. You might already be
familiar with eye movie. It's pretty simple,
easy, intuitive program. There's lots of
courses on skill share that will show you how to
use Eye Movie, basically. I'm just going to chop
this up a little bit. I give it a double chat and I put split clip. I'm just
going to delete that. I don't need that stuff there. Cut See how long this is. If the first thing I did work. Listings. That works. But it's a nasally voice. I don't know if I like
that. I'm going to split. Lists. Listings. I like that sweet voice
that I did there. I'm going to get rid of
these ones. Cut back. Just gonna move
things around here. I want to put that over there. I'm gonna chop it,
put those over here. So I just want to hear what
this blessing sounds like. Blessings. Did that fit? I didn't
watch. Let's see. Blessings. That work? That's a nice one. I'm gonna move it,
though, 'cause I heard one more that I kind of liked. Where was it? Oh, let's make it like a Bunkim. Blessings. I don't know that. That one is kind of funny. So if it makes a
big reaction to me, like, if I think it's funny, and this is my project. I might just put that one in cause that one makes me laugh. Let's see. Let's see if it fits. What fits? That's a punch in the face blessings. I
think that's the winner. It caused the strongest
reaction in me, so I'm going to assume I'm deleting the rest
of the stuff I did because I'm just going
to do this quickly. Unfortunately, those
other two blessings that I did, they
don't make the cut. They didn't have the
strongest reaction. You're fine and if you're
looking for something sweet, then maybe you would
choose that option. But this one made me laugh. I'm going to pick this one.
We'll listen to it again. Blessings. It's funny. It's abrasive. It's like a Christmas punch
in the face, and I like it. Okay. I think this
is my long one. Let's see. There's lots of
map to edit out of this. But let's give it a listen. Couple of is. Oh, no,
that's not. That's fine. Let's cut back. I'm not
going to do that right now. That sounds like my
sweet little girl. It looks like I did that lots. So this is my brush your teeth stuff.
Let's hear what I did. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. That was my mum voice, right? I don't know if it's
going to make the cut. Wait, I have to, stop it. See how it goes above the
line there, the voice waves. That means it's too loud. So I'm going to lower it so that everything is below that. Oh. Yeah, there's a couple of times I really jumped up with L. Yeah, nothing blows up. That's what it's called. It
doesn't blow up the mic, so. Yeah, I don't know if
those mum voices are gonna make the cut. Let's hear. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Yeah, you. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. That's kind of funny. No gonna do a couple as a boy. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all, those sweet
treats, sweetie. Okay. I like the little
boy ones better, so I'm just gonna.
I'm just gonna cut. Um the mum voices, you know, you're Oh, what I just Oops. Can put that back on. Basically, I'm cutting
those mom voices. Got to do it here. Split clip. Goodbye. Not every. Don't need to be precious about it. You're trying things out. Some of the things you do are
not going to be brilliant. Let's try something else. Split the clips
here. Split clip. Sorry, be it. Eat, make
the cut. Let's see. Smooth this down. I'm still
blowing up the mic there. Wait because I started again. I've cut the Mum stuff out. I got to reset the levels so that I
don't blow up the mic. Right? What's the funniest
one, and what matches up? Did I do it long
enough? I don't know. Uses supposed to be 6.7 seconds. Let's cut it and then see
how many seconds that is. 4.6. That's not
going to make it. I I spoke too fast. Cut that. Oops. I hope this one works.
How long is this one? Eight. Split it here. 4.7 again. Oh, no. I hope this
one's long enough. I have gonna, I think
these ones get cut. Geez. I thought I
thought they were funny. Okay. Fingers crossed that I
made this one long enough. Otherwise, I have
to do it again. Well, okay. Let's see if
I start there. Oh, man. Can I fake it? Can I smudge it? I don't know. I spoke too fast. This might happen to you too
when you're working on it, that you record you record a good take where
the acting is good, but it doesn't match up. Let's see if I can fake it. What other thing. I started a little bit late and ended early and if it still
works out, okay, let's see. Blessings. Don't forget
to brush your teeth. After all, those sweet
treats, sweetie. You didn't. You didn't. Darn ski. You know what? I made that really long ta where
I did it 1 million times. East? I have to find a clip from there because nothing
I did was long enough. Okay, I'm gonna do the end
one. Which is this one. Here I am going to
the little girl, and then I have to go back. Let's listen to some of
my little girl takes. And she got boo. A ingojingoquench, quench. That's easier. It's just
listening. What's good one? Jingle jingle quench, lunch. And I can make it
out of the happy. A jingle Jingu Cut. I can make it out of
hap, a dingo Jingu Cut. One that's exciting. Jingle,
jingle, punch, punch. I I like that one. I
want to make that one. Oh, but it doesn't let me. Does longer than the video. So I'm gonna split it here. I got to get rid of
all this other stuff, and it won't let
me split the clip unless I can go edit di split. I'm going to delete this stuff. God, I love this over, then it will let
me split things. Jingle. Let's see. This one is pretty silly. It's excite. Jingle,
jingle, crunch, punch. Oh, that's really long. I ching. Does that fit? Blowing up a little bit. Jingle. Jingle jingle. I just crap. Okay. So if you decide, oh, I cut everything and I need
to go back to what I did. There's two ways you can do it. You can just keep
going to the edit and then go undo and keep going backwards or you'd be
like, I got to start again. Cut. Let's try to bring
this all back down. I might just have
to use that one. Let's see. Move over. Not pretty, is it? A little bit finicky getting
through this. Just see the first one. I want to take out. I don't like it. Split
Cut that. Let me cut it. Let me out. Cut. S. Genting it. It is open. Blessings. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all
those sweet treats, sweetie. A tingle jingle. I have to go back to the studio. I don't like what I did. I don't like the takes that I did.
This could happen to you. I like my blessings. I like my jingle
jingle crunch crunch. But for the body of it, I didn't do any
takes that I liked. Come on, try again. I try again. Dear Kizzy cities. See it.
8. Back in the Closet: Don't forget to brush
your teeth. Okay, T two. We're back in the closet studio. I didn't like what I did, and I'm sharing my process with you. I'm a professional. I try and experiment with things and
even sometimes in a cartoon, they're going to get you to
do a line over and over again because you are not
giving them what you want or your acting is bad, or you're just not on the
same page as the director, or if you're dubbing
something over in animate, maybe you have this big
line of text like we do here and the mouse flaps
are just not matching up, and that is the problem
we are encountering here. I I've said this line so many times that now
I have it memorized. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. I think, maybe I'll do that
character. I just popped out. I'm back in voice memos. I'm going to start
a new recording. I'm gonna open up the image. I mean, the little video,
the animated video. I know the line now I've said it so many times is memorized. I think this is going
to be my character. And I'm going to try
this a couple of times. Here we go. See if I can slow down, have the intention,
the acting intention, what I want to convey, don't forget to brush your teeth and have it match up
with the mouth flaps. Alright, I watched the Lady
gingerbread character, watch her do a mouse. And that means I know to look
down at the lit at the man, and he's going to start
talking. Okay, here we go. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all the sweet treats. Sweetie? Too slow. Alright, let's try again. Backing up. Don't forget
to brush your teeth. After all the sweet
treats. Sweetie. Did I get it? Oh, my God. Et us go back to the
computer and check. Maybe I'll do this voice. So I do this one as well. Let's resume because somehow another voice just popped out. I'm going to try that one more time because I liked that
voice that just popped out. Mmm. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Okay, one weird British one
for the for the fun of it. I'll see you back inimae. Treats, sweetie.
9. Editing it All Together: Thanks. Welcome back to
this stage of the process. So what happened there is I didn't like any of
the takes I did. None of them were long enough. I listened to everything. The acting was good, but it didn't match up
with the animation. So I went back into my studio. I made sure that I
watched the animation. At the same time I
was saying the words. A new character jumped up. So now I'm going to see I really hope that what
I did actually fits. The I think it's this little chunk. Down. 6.7 seconds. That's
what we're looking for. Match that looks like that might fit. 6.3 What did you say? Is to make that one shorter. Get that out there. Listen. Blessings. Don't forget
to brush your teeth. After all the sweet treats, sweetie, a team I don't like it. Cut. Ruthless. Ruthless.
Let's see this one. Eating? No. Maybe this one. I apologize. If there's a beeping sound, something is backing.
Seems short. Blessings. Don't forget
to brush your teeth. After all the sweet
treats, seethe. Almost. I could cut it
there. Slide it over. Oh. Let's see what happens.
Am I talking that S. Blessings. Don't forget
to brush your tea. After all the sweet drinks,
sweetie ingoing it? Did I get it? I think it worked. I'm
just going to listen to that one British voice that
I found at the very end. Let's see if that's cute.
It's all the way over here. I think see which one's better. Well, let me split it. It's all right. Right? That's muffin. Cut that. Let's move this one
out to the end. Just punch this in. See that fits. There's
no weird dead space. I wanted to Let's see. What does that one sound
like? Let's listen. Blessing. Don't forget
to brush your teeth after all those sweet
treats sweetie. A gin. Okay, that's option one. Switch. I guess 6.2 seconds
is what's fitting in. So I guess between
6.2 and 6.7 seconds. Blessings. Don't forget
to brush your tea. After all the sweet
treats, Sweete. A genu Jingu, lunch,
lunch. Don't forget. Which one's funnier?
Which one's funnier? Okay, I'm gonna listen
again. Let's make it big. Blessings. Don't forget
to brush your tea. After all the sweet
treats, Sweete. A geno Jingu, lunch, lunch. Okay, that's that
one. You better? Who's gonna W's gonna make
it cut? Who's gonna win? Okay. Blessings. Don't forget to brush your teeth after
all those sweet treats, sweetie, a dingo
dingo quad what? I think I like the bossy
British lady that came in, surprisingly, that made
a surprise appearance that disappeared from my soul. I think she's gonna make it onto this new version of
my digital Christmas card. Mama likes. You did it. Hopefully, I walked you through this process in a
way that you could understand if you're overwhelmed
by editing in Eye Movie, I learned how to edit on
Eye Movie on Skillshare. There are some great classes. Just search beginner editing, eye movie, and
some great classes will pop up and give you
a basic understanding. And like any program, it's about playing with
it and making mistakes. I really hope that you take
your voices that you have done and turn and
share it with people. And I hope you use this animated
cookie tray as a way to share your creativity and your siliness and
your sense of humor. Yeah. So join me in the next video as we
wrap up this project. Season's greetings,
you Cookie cookies.
10. Formating it for Social Media: Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
traits, sweetie. Friends. There's one more
thing I want to show you. So when you export your file, you'll see it has
these two black bars. As labeled this DigiCard. You see that has
those two black bars on the side because
it doesn't format for social media,
which is unfortunate. I'm going to save it
in what resolution? Let's save it high,
high resolution. 26.5 megabytes. Then I'm going to change
the format in Canva because Canva has these automatic
automatic resizing templates. I've exported my movie, I've saved it on my desktop. And now on my Canva count, I have a paid Canva account, but you can also get a free
trial or just free Canva. All these things I've
learned on Skillshare. I learned I move on Skillshare. I learned how to use
Canva on Skillshare. If you are overwhelmed by
learning a new website or tool, Skillshare has many classes with quick tutorials if this is overwhelming for me to
just throw you in there. Let's go to Canva,
create a design. Let's do Instagram Real. Let's make it long.
Sorry, tall and narrow. Now I'm going to go to uploads. Upload a file and DigiCard Upload that. Here it is. You can see
I've done a few of these. Is. Don't forget to brush your teeth. After all those sweet treats, sweetie, a dingo
dingo clutch, clutch. You can try it in a real size
and then make it bigger. Actually, What did I like? No. I went back. I'm going to instead of
doing Instagram real, I'm going to do Instagram post because I've made the
animation square. I'm going to keep it
square and then your file, it cuts off the black
and you can send this as a text message videos. Bringing this file over here. Blessings. Don't forget
to brush your teeth. After all those sweet treats, sweetie, a dingo dingo quad. Ch. Show that over. There
might be a shortcut, but I don't know.
Thank you this. Take the black off. Can
we get bigger there? Bigger. Don't make
it bigger here. There. I've cut off the black part and now it's just a square and I want to save
the file like that. That's how I'm going to label this Kelly's digital XMs card 2.0 because I already made
one with one set of voices, and now I have another
set of voices. Then I go share and
I go to download and MP four, Video. Yeah, that quality. See. Social media. If you want? The original. Want to save it on
a higher quality. Okay? Now, that's downloading
that onto my computer, and I can then send
that to my phone so that I can text it
out to my friends. I can post it on
my social media. If you do end up posting your digital Christmas
card on social media, please tag me on Instagram
at Kelly Jane Metzger. I'd love to see what you made. Join me for the conclusion
so that we can sum up everything that you've learned and worked
on in this course. I'll see you there. See it's
waiting for you Coy Cookie.
11. Conclusion: Blessings. Don't forget to brush your teeth after all those
sweet treats, sweetie. A jingle, jingle, quench. It. Thank you for participating
in this class, voiceover for animation, voicing a digital
Christmas card. If you're interested in learning more about voiceovers
and taking my classes, I have voiceover for animation, creating characters
for your demo, voiceover for animation, auditioning for cartoons
where I've made up a cartoon that you
can audition for, and I have audition sides
for you to practice. And I have voiceover
for animation, building a Walla library
where I help you work on all the different
little extra sounds that bring your
characters to life, like the punches and kicks
and the groans and the sighs. If you enjoyed this class, please leave me a review. It's like leaving
me a little tip, and it helps other
students find my classes. Happy holidays, and I'll see you in the next class. By Essex. Don't forget to
brush your teeth. After all those sweet
treats, sweetie. Gingo in the cluck cluck.
Kelly Metzger, Learn Voice Acting from a Pro
