Recognize the lady pictured down below? (Hint) "Rocky"

 Some will know who she is and some won't. Depends on your age, when you were born, AND what your cartoon viewing habits were as a kid. Her name is June Foray, an American voice actress and is known as "The First Lady of Animated Voicing." She passed in 2017, but not before giving us hundreds of unforgettable cartoon characters. Check out this amazing list of her voices. She finally received an Emmy award at age 94! About time! She recorded for Disney productions for 6 decades! She was one of the pioneers of voice acting. To be a working, sought after animation voice actor you need to become the character, sustain it and capable of voicing more than just a sentence or two. June Foray was amazing. Her voice print is all over the classic cartoons. Find her on You Tube videos doing her thing and talking about her many voices she's used over the years. When you hear her speaking voice, I guarantee you'll hear some "Rocky" in there. And here she is in an outstanding interview posted on YouTube.

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June talking about her career

Rocky the Flying Squirrel: From Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show

• Granny: From Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
• Lucifer the cat: From Disney's Cinderella
Cindy Lou Who: From The Grinch
Natasha Fatale: From The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Jokey Smurf: From the Smurfs
Grammi Gummi: From Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Magica De Spell: From The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi's villainous cobra: From Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

     

"Somebody help me! I'm drowning in a sea of stupidity"

 So, several months ago I decided to sign up for free to see what kind of voice over jobs are available through the thumbs down freelancer platform...UpWork. Getting registered with them was pretty fast and easy. But here's the funny part. ONE DAY after I signed up, (ONE DAY!) I received an email from them stating my account was being suspended because I wasn't auditioning for enough jobs with them. I barely had a chance to put my headphones on after I signed up when their suspension email came in. Most of the voice over jobs on there are "crapola" from all over the world including some where they want you to work for free.  Or the phony promise of better paying future work. And the bulk of the jobs are VO folks who are fighting over a $10 job! Voice seekers who want a whole lot from the voice talent but aren't willing to pay a fair amount. I immediately deleted all my sign-up information.My conclusion? It's a nasty place to try to win decent VO jobs. Bottom of the barrel jobs are in abundance there. And I have found the people who want a really good voice over but don't want to pay a fair amount, are the biggest pain in the butt to work for. You actually have to pay UpWork with their screwy connect tokens to audition for jobs. Take a hard pass on UpWork for voice jobs. Even if you're new to voice over and need experience, run, don't walk from UpWork. Their wonky audition process is beyond stupid and insulting. From what I've heard from former employees, many in upper management there are clueless about the VO industry. For them, it's all about how much money they can make off the site. (Sound like another well known voice over website?) If you think my review of UpWork is harsh, Google them. Reddit has some very specific (raw) reviews.  Getting paid peanuts, or nothing at all, is a terrible way to launch your voice over career. You never want to be branded as the "cheap voice over guy/gal."