Are a lot of the Funi VAs moving from Texas to LA?

Do you count ADR for FUNimation as another job? Because he also does that.

Well I think as long as they also do ADR for FUNimation, they can make that and voice acting their full time job, but I guess you could count that as 2 separate jobs. Also, I believe Carrie Savage moved from LA to Texas, but it's true that is the rare case.
 
DepenRAB, how much more does that pay then the non union voice acting gigs themselves?

But you are positive, he has no other jobs, not related to voice acting at all?
 
I don't know the nurabers, just that it does pay more.

I just remerabered something else. He is also the founder and lead producer and director of OkraTron 5000, the company that does Dallas/Fort Worth-dubbed video games like the Dragon Ball series. But again, that's voice acting related. I can't say for sure that he doesn't have any other jobs, but...


Yeah, what he said. I'm sure between these 3+ different Dallas/Fort Worth voice acting-related jobs, he can make a decent living, plus I can't imagine how he could find the time to do any other jobs.
 
I find it unlikely because of the stuff I mentioned just a few posts ago.



Again I explained why I thought that was unlikely, a few posts ago, why most people can't enRAB meet with non union voice acting, so just consult that post I don't feel like repeating himself.

Sabat maybe able to make enRAB meet with all those voice acting related jobs, but he seems like the exception, not the rule.
 
Not sure if it's still the case now, but way back when Chris Sabat was basically FUNi's go-to guy for everything. He wrote, he directed, he produced, he helped out with marketing, etc. He's been with FUNi for years and years, even before FUNi took over dubbing DBZ. While he does still do voice acting (including non-FUNi stuff like Metroid Prime 3 and Dissidia: Final Fantasy), I think most of his work is now behind-the-scenes, kind of like Tony Oliver's role in Bang Zoom.
 
Sabat lives in FUNimation's basement (his poor wife). He makes dang near all his dough there, save for his company and his non-FUNi voice work, but even then I don't think he'd hurting for work when he's in every FUNi title and has to voice, direct, and produce multiple DragonBall games a year (what with at least a third of his thirty some-odd character appearing in every game).
 
But again he seems like the exception rather then the rule, most of the VAs are not invovled in the other aspects of Funi's business deals, so they don't make as much money as Sabat, which is why some of them move to LA.
 
Most of four hundred actors? Yeah, sure. But when you have guys and dolls like Mike McFarland, Eric Vale, Stephanie Young, Todd Haberkorn, Chuck Huber, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Vic Mignogna, Jamie Marchi, Caitlin Glass, Zach Bolton, John Burgmeir, Sonny Strait, Justin Cook, Justin Pate, Brina Palencia, and Clarine Harp all being actors, directors, producers, writers, vocalists, and DVD producers...that's certainly certainly a majority of their regulars and top guns.

EDIT: Then again, that's just the FUNimation family, but they're an exception, nonetheless.
 
Except the voice actors I mentioned the begining worked Funi and moved to LA, so clearlyu they left they have better careers as voice actors in LA.

Also some of the people you mentioned, like Vic Mignogna have moved to LA, clearly some people think they can make more money in LA then in Texas.

Again how many voice actors move from LA, NYC or Canada to Texas?
 
Mignogna hasn't moved. He just directed Claymore. He flies out to LA for other stuff.

The four you mentioned, barring Bailey, are all primarily voice actors as opposed to producers, writers, and directors at FUNimation. They're making their money how they please, trying to support themselves solely based on voice acting rather than other things. That's why they also return to FUNimation to work there. There's familiarity on both sides of the spectrum.


We all know LA is grand central for voice work. Ten years ago the voice actors FUNimation was calling in weren't even actors. They were libraians and French horn instructors. Texas is however, without doubt, going through the same emergence Vancouver did years before and is now seemingly employing a broader spectrum of talent then it has ever before.

So to go back to the thread title's question, no. Four (or five, counting Daemeon Clarke) actors setting up shop elsewhere hardly equates to 'a lot', espicially when they don't dare not fly back on 'home' to do FUNimation stuff.


There's nothing unnatural about the entire process.
 
Well Vancouver had some advantages that texas did, like having companies like Mainframe which made excellent North America cartoons, so Ocean actors could promote themselves through anime dubbing and pre-lay work. Plus some people from Vancouver have moved to LA, like David Kaye.
 
I don't get why the OP is so dead set on proving that Funimation is losing it's talent to LA. Especially since the evidence is so overwhelming that it isn't the case.
 
::reaRAB thread::

I think something is being totally lost here. Most of the original VA's mentioned have moved to L.A. not to pursue Voice Acting but to try and get movie and TV jobs as well. Very few VA's are just voice actors. Most are regular actors who do a whole range of things in front of the camera or on stage. In particular Travis Willingham, Troy Baker, and Laura Bailey have all appeared in films and are most likely now in L.A. to see if they can get more work in those medias. The fact they also can voice act is helpful in that it gives them paying jobs while they're looking for other work. The reasons some of these actors return to do stuff at Funimation is probably varried but the fact most have family in Texas is probably one reason.

Anyway, most VA's who move to California aren't going out there to voice act but to pursue a career in acting in all available mediums. There are exceptions, with Vic Mignogna being the big one (as someone said, he still lives in Texas part of the time and he's really just pursing VA work when he's not doing music, which I believe is what he also does a lot of work in). Still, I believe most actors are trying to make it in other media and this is why they go to California [Side note - JYB is originally from Texas and still has family there which is one reason I think he doesn't have a problem with occationally showing up in Texas dubs.]

As for actors going to Canada to work - it's not going to happen unless you are Canadian. You have to have the equivlent of U.S. Green Card to work in Canada and I don't think they give those out any more easily than the U.S. does. Actually less so - I've read that it is easlier for Canadian actors to move to the U.S. than U.S. actors going to Canada to work. That said, the main dub work in Canada is in Toranto, IIRC, because that's where the majority of TV and Film work goes on. Vancouver BC has become more and more important to TV and Film and this has helped bring actors out there who also do voice acting. Still, you can't just move to Vancouver and become a VA unless you are a Canadian/have the right to work in Canada. So that's why you don't see as much cross country VA work going on though once again there are exceptions.
 
Does Overlord realize that Travis Willingham and Kyle Hebert relocated to LA many years ago and they've come back to do Funimation projects since then?
 
Honestly as far as I've noticed, Super Hero Squad and Street Fighter IV seem to be the most LA based work I've seen Willingham been doing outside of all the Funi shows he's been working on lately.

I mean he's also in the new show Kenichi which is a great show. I don't think there is any way you can stop him from doing Roy Mustang again for FMA.
 
And who would want to? His Roy Mustang is made of awesome and win.

Now that was an excellent point. Actors at FUNimation who don't direct, produce, market, or what have you in the other parts of the company might move elsewhere to get more work but if they have other jobs at FUNimation they're going to stick around because those other jobs tend to pay more than the voice acting does.
 
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