So some of you already know about this, but I've never really talked about it
here on The Cog is Dead's youtube channel, and i thought it might be kind of fun
today to make a video and share a little bit with you all about my other
profession. Obviously you know me as the singer and songwriter for The Cog is
Dead, that's pretty much half of my career right there.
However when I'm not making music the rest of my time is spent working as a
professional voice actor. "Hey Artie ever feel like no one's listening?"
"Bastions for humanity still hoping for salvation." I've been doing acting and
voiceover work off and on for a long time now, but really for only about the
past five years have I been able to do it full-time professionally. You know, I
really love the way technology has made it so much easier;
Digital recording equipment is so much more available and affordable, pretty
much everyone that's high-speed Internet connections these days and so unlike in
the past where you had to live in LA or New York or one of the other major
cities where productions are done and you had to go to the studio, now so much
work is being booked online and they're working with voice actors right out of
their home studios. (In Character Voices) "Hey Doug how's it going?" "Who are you to be on my land?" "Who
let that spider in here? Take it outside!" "Oh! My old friend! I should have known you
were helping them." "This is the story of princess sleeping on American Top Forty."
"Carry on, wayward robot!" Oh yeah loving every minute! I love doing character work
and I love voice acting, and I'm really just so grateful that I've been able to
have the opportunities that I've had and work on the projects that I get to work
on and play characters from things like Adam Ruins Everything, "So if you like the
Hollywood sign, thank me!" ADAM: "You know, I love your magazine's articles!" The History Channel, "With all
the crossfire it was hard to believe I made it in one piece!" My Little Pony and
Transformers: RESCUE BOTS games, "Got 'em right here ma'am! Your friends told me
you needed these in a hurry!" "How did you two escape?" I was the voice of Chuck E.
Cheese in Dubai, "Hello everybody, I'm Chuck E. I'm coming to Dubai!" College
Humor with Kevin Hart, "Kevin Hart! He's taking on the music industry with his new
album Hart Beats!" and I got to do four voices in Clash Royale: the Barbarians
the Knight
the Lumberjack "Timber!" and probably my favorite one the Electro Wizard "Zap!
Electrons!" Actually, the very first video game job I ever booked was
coincidentally the same day that the cog is dead played our very first show ever.
It was six years ago, we were opening for Abney Park I was already like super
excited and kind of fanboying out already and so I was... my mind was all
over the place that day, and it was the first time ever meeting fans face to
face, and so so much was going on and in the midst of all that like I checked my
email and I'm like, "Oh! I booked a job in a video game called Dust: An Elysian Tail"
Samuel L. Jackson: "Here are the nominees for best independent game."
Announcer: "Dust: An Elysian Tail."
Calum: "Hold it right there!"
And, of course with all the other excitement
going on that day I completely forgot to reply to their email! So thankfully they
followed up a couple days later and I still was able to record the job and
everything went well!
Right, well there you go! There's a little look at the
stuff that I do whenever I'm not doing stuff with the cog is dead. I'm
definitely very passionate about it and thankful that I get to work on this
stuff and do what I enjoy, I definitely don't take it for granted I
don't take it lightly you know honestly I
I try to be committed to everything that I work on and I know it's the result of
a lot of focus and patience and endurance and just sticking to it. You
know, one of my favorite quotes of all time, and it's kind of cheesy, is the line
from Back to the Future, but it's the scene where Marty tells his dad, "You know,
if you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything!" and you know that
line is always stuck out to me and it's kind of been my philosophy when, at least
whenever approaching anything that I've wanted to do or pursue, and I honestly
believe it's true if you really have an interest or a passion for something if
you really believe in it and you focus on it and commit to it you can do it. I
mean, practice makes perfect. All right, well that's it for now! Thank
you so much for listening, let me know if you found this interesting or if you'd
like to see any other videos like this in the future.
And until then I guess I will see you in the future!
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