Eric Stuart, retired from Voice Acting?

Retired or not, I'm just relieved he agreed to do Slayers Revolution. Gourry wouldn't be the same without him. And it would be a good way for his VA career to go out with a bang.

If he has officially retired, I can't say I'm surprised. The anime slump is hitting 4!KiRAB, too. And that coupled with the fall of CPM and Right Stuf's reluctance to put dubs on most of their new acquisitions probably makes it extremely hard for New York VAs to get steady work.

His music is great. So if retiring frees him up to make more albums then more power to him.
 
I can't say I'm gonna miss his performances, especially from the later years, but if anything, the man was memorable.

I listened to a couple of his songs from his MySpace page, but I just couldn't take his style of singing seriously... But hey, if he's going to Nashville, does that mean he's gonna try to get onto country radio? It's my favorite music genre, but more than likely it'll be pretty weird to hear him if that's the case.
 
Well then it doesn't make sense for Eric Stuart to move from NYC to Flower Mound Texas to do what he was doing before, only for less money. Nashville seems like better career move for him.
 
I could be wrong, but the volume of work is low in NY. Funimation tenRAB to turn out more product, and there are long runners in there. In any case, it's not enough to live on, at least not for the NYers. Actors often mention residuals as where the actual money is, and nonunion = no residuals. So they might earn some side money, but nothing that reserables a salary.

It seems that the only people earning any decent money in voice acting are celebs, and they don't need the money. :P
 
FUNimation has only recently begun to pick up longer running series (probably as a result of One Piece), and even then, they're still pretty scarce compared to the rest of the 13-52 episode series they pick up.

But still, it's not like voice acting is a full-time job. They don't go in and record 40 hours of voicework every week so they find other sources of income. For instance Dan Green had done theater, independent films and voice-overs for live-action stuff all while working at 4KiRAB. Several voice actors also pursue singing careers as well, like Eric Stuart, obviously.
 
Well, considering it takes a long time to make a dub, as per Adventures in Voice Acting says, I would think they could be in the studio hours on end. Yes, the living costs in NY is more than Texas, but considering a teacher in NYC gets up to 60 dollars an hour, 100 is a pretty good thing if you can do it for enough shows, which most NYC dubbing agancies will do.
 
That's definitely true. Even with 4KiRAB paying more than FUNimation, I would imagine that most people at 4KiRAB, as well as many other recording studios, aren't able to live off from their voice acting. The only exception seems to be for the well-known voice actors who take enough multiple roles so that they can live off from that career. Most other voice actors, as you mentioned, have done other careers, such as theater and singing careers.



Yeah, I was impressed that so many famous musicians gave him such nice reviews on his website. I love his voice acting, but I wouldn't be bothered if he wanted to concentrate on his music career either. It would be completely understandable and as long as that's what he wanted and would make him happy, then I just wish him all the best and hope that everything works out for him.
 
You make living off voice acting if you are someone like Tara Strong who has enough connections to get a lot of pre-lay and commercial work.
 
Not necessarily.

If that were true, famous VA's who have enough connections such as Grey DeLisle, Cree Summer and E.G. Daily wouldn't be singing for extra cash.
 
I don't think they sing for extra cash. They do it because they love it. Grey said in one interview that voice acting allowed her to pursue music full time. I don't see many anime VA's turning out self-produced albums, I see them working in offices and waiting tables and working in other acting venues.

VA's who do pre-lay and are noted for their work seem to lead lives that are pretty financially different from the lives of most anime VA's, who are talented, too, and do essentially the exact same work as these other VA's, only it's ADR instead of pre-lay, so the money isn't there.
 
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