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Justin Barrett

Major site update, minor tweenMachine update

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally done: everything has been migrated over to WordPress on this new domain.  I can’t tell you how long this has been eating at me, but thanks to a personal productivity hack — and it honestly was “one weird trick” like those teaser headers we’ve all seen — I was able to make massive progress in the past couple weeks,Read More »Major site update, minor tweenMachine update

Originality in Voiceover?

Back when I was a full-time CG animator, I often saw people creating their own private projects. For folks looking to break into the field, it was often recommended that they do original work on their own time as a way of building their portfolio and honing their skills. In the acting field, I see the same advice: create your own work. While many actorsRead More »Originality in Voiceover?

JACK/Skype tutorial now on video!

Are you a voice talent who uses Skype? Do your clients want playback? This video will show you how to make it happen.

“The greatest of faults…”

While doing some computer cleanup today, I ran across a bunch of old VO files. These were all pre-training, pre-demo, pre-agent, pre-actual-professional-gigs. And boy did it sound like it! The saddest part is that I didn’t know how bad I sounded. I thought I was doing all right. Boy was I wrong! This reminded me of my first interview with an animation studio (back whenRead More »“The greatest of faults…”

Affleck

While driving to a job a week or two ago, I was thinking about the then-recent announcement that Ben Affleck would be playing the title role in the next Batman film.  It didn’t take long before a commercial parody idea leapt into my mind, so I wrote to another local VO friend and asked if he’d voice the other character in the new version.  HeRead More »Affleck

Synergy

Multiple computers, but only one keyboard and mouse? Skip the hardware KVM with this awesome multi-platform utility

Was that actually marketing?

It’s interesting when not really trying can net results similar to those of a conscious effort…but then is it actually marketing?

Nerd!

Has anyone ever called you “nerd” or “geek”? Cool, ’cause that’s now a synonym for “awesome.”