"FUNimation is the largest anime licensing and dubbing studio in America, so getting to work with them is kind of every anime fan's dream."īutler works in a sound booth with a video screen of lines to read, and another screen with animation.
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"They don't give you big-name parts for an entire series until you've done your small stuff, earned your stripes, so I'm still on training wheels," said Butler, who is from Houston, Texas. She was given background parts in as-yet-unreleased series, and she also was invited to work on a movie. I didn't know how it went because I had never done it before, and I didn't know what I was doing." "So I flew down to Dallas (Texas) and I auditioned. "I e-mailed them and thought I'd never hear back from them, but then they gave me a call," Butler said. Backstage, she met people who worked for FUNimation Entertainment, an anime production company looking for voice actors.
It started when Butler attended an anime conference in Chicago, Illinois, as a panelist speaking about fan culture and a type of writing called "fan fiction," which uses characters from popular shows or books to write new stories. She provides the English-language voice for some characters in Japanese-made anime productions. Samantha Butler, a Knox College senior who is majoring in creative writing and pursuing minors in business and management and philosophy, is also developing a potential career in voice acting.