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SFP Indie Issue 2

MEET BRIAN ROLLINS:

By Brian Patrick McKinley

Interview
with Voice
Articles
Actor, Book
Narrator
Brian Rollins

Tell everyone about yourself.
I’m a native Californian that now resides in
the Denver area of Colorado. I have two
awesome kids and huge Great Dane. I’ve
been married to my high school sweet heart
for almost nineteen years.

I filled out a profile, dropped a few demos
on it, some of which, quite frankly, now
embarrass me with their audio quality and my
performance. And there it sat without me
giving it much thought. Until a couple of
authors found me there. Now here I am,
several books later and loving it.

Why did you become interested in voice
acting? How did you get into the
What’s a typical work day like?
business?
Basically, I settle in to start recording as early
Much like writers do, I just wanted to do it.
as my brain allows. If I’m being good, I
I was always the goofy kid in school. You
warm up my voice with some exercises. If I
know, the one making weird or funny
don’t, I usually have to throw out my first
voices. In school plays, I was the one that
pass at a chapter. Depending on my work
volunteered to be the narrator. I read stories
load, I’ll record some auditions. After that, I
to my younger siblings. When I had kids of
work on the projects I have contracts for. I
my own, I read them stories. It became a
record a chapter at a time, taking a break for
challenge (both from within myself and
water and stretch my legs between chapters.
from my kids) to do more and more voices
for the stories. I did theater and improv, but
I’ll record until I run out of material or my
had never thrown my
voice starts to sound different. After that I
By Brian Patrick McKinleyhat into the Voice
Acting ring until I discovered podcasts.
either edit what I’ve recorded or I work on
highlighting my next project. By highlighting,
Tell everyone about yourself.
Specifically, the Escape now resides in the
I go through in MS have and color code
I’m a native Californian that Artists podcasts Denver area of Colorado. IWord two awesome
(Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and
main characters. This way I can see who is
kids and huge Great Dane. I’ve PodCastle). I
became an immediate fan and wanted to
talking at the beginning of dialogue. Most
narrate for them. After a few emails back
authors don’t put the dialogue attribution
and forth, I got a couple of stories. It was a
until the end of the sentence. That’s fine for
blast. I did some other freelance work: A
readers, but it sucks for narrators.
couple of video games and a sales video. But
Highlighting means I can dive right in
then I discovered ACX, quite by accident.
without glancing at the end of a sentence
before reading.

Interview with Brian Rollins:
Voice Actor, Book
Narrator

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