- Hi, I'm Sarah Natochenny, I'm a voice actor.
You may know me best as Ash Ketchum on Pokemon.
And I'm also Delia Ketchum, and Buneary
and Chansey and Diglett.
And a bunch of other stuff.
And today, I'm gonna be improvising voices
based on characters I have never seen before.
[laughs nervously]
[whoosh]
- What's a matter?
This is a vampire person.
He's got his little fangy teeth.
He got little fangy ears.
He's got eye...
I love his eyebrows, they're like eh.
And he's so little, he's like
What, what was, what's the, what's the matter?
What did I do, what did I do, what?
Did I do something, I did that, I didn't do that.
[stammers]
That was dead already.
He could be Transylvanian.
He could be a little, a little Transylvanian boy.
He could be, he could be a little Transylvanian boy.
He's got a big cheek.
Um, but it wasn't me.
That was not me at all.
There, yeah, there we go.
That's it.
He's got like a [blubbers] the thing in there, you know?
[stammers]
I did not steal his homework.
I did not tip over the lunch tray.
I did not trip the teacher
and I definitely didn't put a worm in that sandwich.
I'm the best, best little vampire boy that ever lived.
I'm a good vampire boy.
[whoosh]
Oh god, okay, she's mad.
She's actually, she's okay hang on,
let's break this one down a little bit here.
This is a witch.
She's on a broom.
Her favorite color is obviously purple
but she has these really bad stockings
that don't match the outfit quite frankly.
You could give her a really, really witchy voice,
but, you could also, I mean, she's not,
she doesn't always have that face.
Sometimes she has a different face, sometimes.
Sometimes her face is really worried.
Sometimes she's worried for the children she put
in her cauldron because she maybe left them in there
too long and when you leave children
in the cauldron too long they turn into rats.
Right?
I think that's true.
[whoosh]
Ooh!
Aren't you cute?
So this is a photographer monkey person.
And, she's got these fabulous glasses
and this fabulous lipstick and this fabulous bow
and a very old camera.
She is fabulous photographer,
she's Annie Leibovitz, she's working at Conde Nast.
She's definitely here on retainer.
She's always available except not.
Sometimes she's like "I'm sorry I can't come in today"
and you guys are just like "That's, that's fine ma'am.
"Just take your time, do whatever you need to do."
She could be, she could be older.
She could be older.
She could be a grandma because she has these,
these lines on her lips
and, she does wear glasses, which I wear glasses
but that does, you know, she could,
she could be an older woman, who, you know,
lives in Williamsburg with all the young kids.
She's very active, she definitely works out
and goes hiking and, you know,
she never had children, god no, she's fab, she's my friend.
[whoosh]
[slurred giggling]
Okay, so this one's gonna get a real funky little voice.
What is this, a demon nerd or what?
What do you call this thing?
Okay, so I think this guy actually has no friends.
He's just oh come on, will you be my friend?
And he's starting to get a real chip on his shoulder, too,
because he's been trying for a long time,
he's a real nice guy.
I'm a really nice guy, man, okay?
I just wanna break.
I just, I, I have, I have Scrabble. I have Monopoly.
I have everything at my house.
I have amazing parents who're gonna, who cook you dinner.
They'll cook you nice meatloaf and just come on over.
Come on, come on!
He's a real desperate character.
There's gotta be something likable to him
but that's for the writers, that's not my job.
[whoosh]
Ooh. [singing happily]
I like to play and I like to be a fairy, yes.
Okay, so this is a sheep.
A lamb?
I'm not sure.
She's got, she, peace sign. She's like Nixon.
She's got a little wizard hat.
She's got a little wizard wand.
She's wearing little, little heels.
She's cute.
And she's very satisfied with herself.
She's very, very satisfied with herself.
I kinda wanna make her a baby. [laughs]
I like her as a little wizard person.
I am a wizard and if you're good person,
I will grant you three wishes but they can't be
to kill someone, they can't be to steal someone,
and they can't be to eat someone.
Or, you could do a more...
Hi, I'm a sheep and I will grant all your wishes.
Just come step into my office.
My office is beautiful.
It's all yellow because yellow is
the happiest color in the world.
And it's also the color of urine
that comes out of bad people.
All cute characters do tend to have high pitched voices
like, if you gave this one a...
hey, my name is Sheepy Shoop and I got a big wand over here.
I'm gonna hit ya wit it.
She'd hit you with it, she wouldn't be like,
oh, I'm going to grant you wishes.
She would just hit you over the head with a wand
and see what falls out, you know?
But, she's like a cute, like, you, you decide,
put it in the comments.
What do you think is a better voice for this character?
Probably the first one.
[whoosh]
Oh, my favorite.
A little boy, I do this a lot.
Oh, he's got a tummy ache. [sighs]
He has thick calves, poor guy.
Real small feet.
This kid's not playing soccer anytime soon.
So I think he's a pretty nervous kid.
Oh man, he's got Crohn's Disease for sure, this kid,
and he brought it on himself, too,
it wasn't natural, didn't occur in his family or anything
he just, oh boy, oh boy. [moaning]
And when he sits in a classroom, he's always in the back row
He raises his hand but then he puts it
right back down again.
He's not, he's not gonna answer the question, you know.
He has friends, you know, he's got friends
but they tolerate him more so than anything.
Poor unfortunate little kid.
[whoosh]
Oh man. This clown's pissed.
So this an angry clown.
He's got a big red nose and a triangular face.
[shuffling feet]
Thing in voice over that really helps
especially when you're creating a character
is to take the stance of the critter
you're trying to do here.
Where is this clown?
Let's put this clown somewhere.
I said no, I will not take this treatment anymore.
Okay, that's it, I'm calling my union.
I'm sick of this crap, okay?
Next time you wanna hire a clown clown,
why don't ya go clown academy
and hire some new clown who dunno what he's doin'?
I've been doin' this for 70 years.
All my life's been is 140.
You think I'm done, you think I'm done?
I am not done today!
This kind of cartoon character would probably,
I mean, he could show up in a kids cartoon
and an adult cartoon.
This could go two ways.
Joaquin Phoenix plays a clown in one movie, gets an Oscar.
I've been a clown all my life, what do I get?
Nothin'.
[whoosh]
So this is Grumpy Cat, god rest his soul.
He's got a little strawberry and it's mine.
Dis one is mine, dis strawberry is mine.
You can't have it, is mine, no, you won't have it.
That's right.
That's right, yeah, keep moving.
Keep walkin'.
Yeah, get outta [hisses] get outta here, yeah.
Or he could be Russian.
Yeah, woman!
Yas you dar.
Come, you sit, sit, I sit on your lap, sit down, sit down.
[growling]
This cat is very quietly nasty.
[low growling]
He also has this awful snarl.
[low snarl]
Meh, I don't like this food at all.
It's not good for me.
It hurts my balls.
My balls, balls!
In my stom-ach.
Move, I eat your food.
[munching]
[spitting out]
I'm done.
[whoosh]
Oh boy.
Okay.
Well, this is, this is, it's Santa time.
It's Santa time in Turtleville and boy, am I happy.
He's a turtle so he's gotta be real slow.
He's gonna be good guy.
He's gonna be real happy and...
he can't wait for Christmas.
Santa Claus!
Hi, I'm you new helper.
No, nobody hired me, I'm a volunteer.
I'm gonna help you drop off all the presents
to all the good children.
What is he had a warm best friend kinda voice?
Hmm.
Hi, I'm Mr. Turtle and I'm your best friend.
I am the warmest, most cuddliest, little thing,
with a little house on his back, you ever have did seen.
We are slow, we know that, we are slow, and that's okay.
It's okay if some of the children
get their presents tomorrow or the day after
or even well into next year, they will wait.
And if they don't wait we will put them on the naughty list.
[whoosh]
Okay. Imma cookie. [breathy laugh]
I'm a mean old cookie and I'm gonna eat you.
He's obviously really strong, he's a cookie.
He's a cookie among men, you know?
He's the guy, who goes to Gold's Gym
and you know, all these humans here, they think they're hot.
Whatever, whatever, whatever.
He rolls in, he doesn't walk, he don't got no legs.
He has to roll.
So he rolls in and he gets,
he sits himself down on his fat little bottom
and he picks up the weights,
he goes bleh, I can do it just like you can.
Bleh, hello.
I'm amazing.
All the ladies come to me, yeah.
That's who he is.
He's got bright blue eyes.
Gorgeous, gorgeous.
Just beautiful.
This is a Girl Scout experiment gone wrong.
[whoosh]
So I hope that gave you a little insight into my process,
into my genius, into my life as a voice actor.
We never quite do this but it's very much,
it's, this is pretty close to what we do.
So, it's pretty great.
Thank you for watching. [laughs]