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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 23, 2021 5:53:57 GMT -5
Such a specific topic … but it happens you’re watching something animated, it could be a movie, a show, or even a videogame.
And there is a character that looks like the voice actor portraying them.
OK I’m excluding when the actor plays themselves like in the Simpson’s or something. I mean when the V.A is playing a fictional character..
For example Rodney Dangerfield.. a couple of times he has voiced fictional characters based on his appearance and well himself in general.. first is the animated movie Rover Dangerfield where he plays a dog version of himself, and well The Simpson’s when he voiced Mr Burns’s son Larry.
While on The Simpson’s the faux band Spinal Tap appeared in a episode so you had animated versions of Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and regular Simpson’s V.A Harry Shearer as their Spinal Tap characters. Also you can count Cheers cast members Ted Danson, Rhea Pearlman, Woody Harrelson, George Wendt and John Ratzenberger in that one bit when Homer enters the Bar (note even though their is an animated Frasier in that scene, he does not have any lines, even though actor Kelsey Grammer often portrays Sideshow Bob).
Other examples: Slater in Archer .. who is voiced by Christian Slater. Not the only the character in Archer designed to look like their voice actor.
And the Netflix series Big Mouth a lot of the child characters are supposed to be based on the actors that originally voiced them.
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Post by Casey Jones (AKA MrThrowback) on Dec 23, 2021 9:50:23 GMT -5
Others may not see it, But I always thought The Genie kind of looked like Robin Williams
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Dec 23, 2021 10:25:19 GMT -5
It's an obvious one, but a good chunk of the human characters of Gargoyles are pretty much dead ringers for their VA's, most notably Jonathan Frakes and Salli Richardson.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 23, 2021 10:30:01 GMT -5
Inverted example. The Clerks cartoon designed Leonardo Leonardo to look like Alan Rickman in Die Hard as Rickman was slated to voice him. Rickman didnt like this so he declined and they got Alec Baldwin.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Dec 23, 2021 11:12:17 GMT -5
Anyone in Sharktale.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 23, 2021 11:30:06 GMT -5
Joker in Mass Effect is just a crippled Seth Green.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 23, 2021 11:47:29 GMT -5
Inverted example. The Clerks cartoon designed Leonardo Leonardo to look like Alan Rickman in Die Hard as Rickman was slated to voice him. Rickman didnt like this so he declined and they got Alec Baldwin. This is close to what happened, but not quite. They got into it on the DVD commentary, but he was initially going to look like Hans Gruber, with Alan Rickman pleading for them to change it because he was only just getting away from severe typecasting. They then started designing a character with long hair and some other different features, with the DVD showing some concept art. ABC decided he was too expensive, anyhow, so they went back to the Hans Gruber-like design and had Alec Baldwin play him, as you say.
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Post by Fundertaker on Dec 23, 2021 12:05:41 GMT -5
The recent Yakuza games: take your pick.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Dec 23, 2021 14:02:59 GMT -5
Louie Anderson in Life with Louie.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 23, 2021 16:28:24 GMT -5
Others may not see it, But I always thought The Genie kind of looked like Robin Williams Phil in Hercules may be a mild example, being voiced by Danny DeVito and all. But the animators sometimes take visual reference from voice actors in the studio (when the animators aren't creating the references themselves).
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 23, 2021 17:30:10 GMT -5
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Post by mrpeacock on Dec 23, 2021 17:59:58 GMT -5
Inverted example. The Clerks cartoon designed Leonardo Leonardo to look like Alan Rickman in Die Hard as Rickman was slated to voice him. Rickman didnt like this so he declined and they got Alec Baldwin. In the same vein, George Clooney was supposed to be the voice of Jack Frost so they made the snowman look like him. When he couldn’t for whatever reason they got Michael Keaton but kept the snowman.
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Post by HMARK Center on Dec 23, 2021 18:05:32 GMT -5
It's an obvious one, but a good chunk of the human characters of Gargoyles are pretty much dead ringers for their VA's, most notably Jonathan Frakes and Salli Richardson. Hang on, lemme see if that's accurate... Huh, there it is, straight from the horse's mouth.
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Post by Mainia on Dec 23, 2021 18:24:12 GMT -5
The recent Invincible animated series changed the appearance of the Amber Bennett character from the comic to look like her voice actor Zazie Beetz.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 23, 2021 18:24:48 GMT -5
Joker in Mass Effect is just a crippled Seth Green. Likewise, Miranda is just Yvonne Strahovski with black hair.
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Post by smokinvokoun86 on Dec 23, 2021 18:49:37 GMT -5
I always thought Gene from Bob’s Burgers looked almost like Eugene Mirman as a child.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 23, 2021 19:19:04 GMT -5
A whole lot of Yakuza characters look exactly like their VA's. Kiryu's likeness changed by Yakuza 3 to make him look more like Takaya Kuroda, as well.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 23, 2021 19:45:47 GMT -5
Joker in Mass Effect is just a crippled Seth Green. Likewise, Miranda is just Yvonne Strahovski with black hair. Is her ass also in the foreground all the time?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 23, 2021 19:52:08 GMT -5
Not what you’re asking for but just an amusing story.
Mike Reiss based Mr. Bergstrom on the Simpsons from a teacher he had as a kid. He asked for the animators to give the character a deformity of some kind, since the real man did. The deformity they chose? To make him look like Mike Reiss.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Dec 23, 2021 20:34:31 GMT -5
American Dad the characters are at least inspired by how the actors look, if not completely modeled after them. In the Smith family, Stan and Hayley have black hair like their voice actor, Steve has red hair, Francine is blond. Jeff Fischer is actor basically on the show. Avery Bullock is an animated Patrick Stewart. Same with Principal Lewis and Kevin Michael Richardson.
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