My name's Mark Antonio Aristizábal.  Before becoming a voice actor I was a 3D animator and director working on various children's animated productions, including the Youtube series "Legends of Evergreen Hills" and the BBC short film "Zog and The Flying Doctors".  My experience with voice work was always on the other side however -writing the scripts and directing the talent.  

Later I would lend my voice to animatics for projects in development.  I also narrated a short film "Samhain", which I directed for RTÉ Jr.  After positive feedback from producers and sound crew, I took some professional voice training at the Lír Academy in Dublin, and gradually gained the confidence to turn voice acting into a career. 

I love performing.  I've heard it said that animators are frustrated actors and it's kind of true, while we don't necessarily lust for the spotlight, we do live and breathe drama and study actors obsessively.  As a child I was always mimicking people around me  -my family, teachers, politicians on the news and movie characters.  I was particularly drawn to the villains -the Jokers, Scars and Ursulas.  I'm not sure what that says about me psychologically, but it is rather fun to play evil!

What I enjoy most about voice acting is not just losing myself in a character, but the immediacy of the process.  Animation can be a tough slog to produce, with many iterations and months of feedback, but in the vocal booth it's just the artist, the script and the voice director working in sync to capture lightning in a bottle.  It's immensely rewarding.

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To check out my animation work, head over to www.mark-directs.net

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