Author: Xiao Lian Kill (Voice actor, member of China Youth New Media Association)
I am a serial killer, a voice actor, who has been in the dubbing work for 11 years. Dubbing is the creation of sound art, is a small branch of literary and artistic creation, many film and television works, especially animation, are inseparable from the voice actors behind the scenes, but the cultivation of dubbing talents, but has always been lacking. Taking the animation industry as an example, if you want to become a screenwriter, director, painter, and post-production, you can find the corresponding major in most colleges and universities to study systematically, but you can hardly find a university that has a dubbing major. The profession of voice actor is known to the public, in fact, it is a matter of the past two or three years.
Poster image of the manga "That Year That Rabbit Thing"
Picture of the poster of the comic "Town Soul Street"
In the industry for 11 years, he also inadvertently witnessed the rise of Guoman. When I first entered the industry, the vast majority of domestic animation was made for preschoolers to see, and the way of dubbing would be low and exaggerated, with more and more adult dramas, the dubbing style was bound to be adjusted accordingly, which was a very big challenge at the time, fortunately, there was still love, let me stick to it. In order to adapt to the new dubbing style more quickly, I began to learn and imitate the Japanese manga that was already very mature at that time, listening to their handling of lines, grasping the rhythm, controlling the emotions, and learning, practicing and comparing word by word until I found a dubbing method that suited me.
In 2015, I participated in the dubbing of a historical military patriotic theme animation "Those Things About that rabbit that year", and voiced the protagonist rabbit in it. This animation uses cute painting style and animal images to tell the history of modern and modern China, telling the story of the slow rise of "flower growers", burning and tear-jerking at the same time, but also making me think that the development of national comics is not exactly like this... Every practitioner has a dream of the rise of the country, and it is this belief and persistence that accompanies us through the long and difficult road of exploration, allowing us to see a glimmer of light.
With the emergence of more and more excellent national comics and the repeated refresh of domestic animation films at the box office, the dubbing industry has also been driven to develop faster: the public has begun to know the profession of voice actors, and more young people have begun to include dubbing in their career plans, but the salaries of ordinary voice actors have hardly changed significantly compared with ten years ago, which makes it more difficult to eat by dubbing than before, and the survival pressure of newcomers is also greater. Nowadays, we see more opportunities, but also see more challenges, in it, only willing not to forget the original intention, continue to use sound to help the rise of national comics, so that more national style cultural settings such as "Under One Person" and "Zhen Soul Street" are more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that Chinese IP such as "Dasheng" and "Nezha" become superheroes in everyone's heart.
Guangming Daily (October 14, 2020, 10th edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily