The Off Air Voiceover Podcast

Michael & Jen

Welcome to The Off Air Voiceover Podcast with Michael Ashtiany and Jen Lawton-Hunt. Join us for banter, personal opinions, and stories about being Voice Actors in this epic and ever evolving industry!

  1. S3 E8 - Getting Animated Ft Kristin Paiva

    07/01/2025

    S3 E8 - Getting Animated Ft Kristin Paiva

    In our final episode of season 3 *sniff* we are joined by animation casting legend, Kristin Paiva! For anyone lucky enough to work with, or meet Kristin, you’ll know what a genuine and joyful person she is and she brought all that energy and more to the podcast. In this episode she shares her journey from working as a casting and voice director for Disney to launching the incredible Paiva Institute and how she plans to support underrepresented voices and future directors in the industry. We chat about the challenges of casting, commons mistakes Voice Actors make, and the magic that can be found. We also discuss the importance of originality in voice acting and how improv can help Voice Actors across all genres, amongst much, more more. This is a hugely informative episode and hopefully will bring you a laugh or two too. Thank you to Kristin for being so incredibly generous with your time and sharing of your experience, we are extremely grateful! Our final Voiceover of the Week winner is the wonderful @katenieland for her hilarious portrayal of Winnie Winnington in the new Paw Patrol, excellent work Kate 👏🏻 go check it out. Our final thanks goes to you for joining us this season. For every like, share, review and affirming comment you’ve sent our way we are hugely humbled and grateful, thank you and until we see you again, happy voicing. Michael and Jen xx   Michael can be found at https://www.manchestervo.co.uk Jen can be found at https://www.jenlawtonhunt.com Kristin can be found at https://www.paiva.productions/ Kate can be found at https://www.katenieland.co.uk/

    1h 13m
  2. S3 E5 - Feeling Mighty ft Mighty Giant Animation & Motion Design

    06/10/2025

    S3 E5 - Feeling Mighty ft Mighty Giant Animation & Motion Design

    Hello!   Welcome to Episode 5!   This week we were joined by the fab Rachel and Jonny from Mighty Giant, an animation and motion Design company from Manchester.   As many VO’s source work from companies like Mighty, we felt it would be great to chat to them about what their process is like on a project and how they factor voice into it Through this they shared some really great insight about working with their VO's and Jonny and Rach discuss what they do with the enquiries they get, (they get alot!) and give their opinions on the question many of us wonder as to what happens when they get those marketing emails!   To top it all off we chat about the importance of building good relationships with people you work with, (a message consistent across this season) and of course, AI! Big shout out to Phil Rowe as this Weeks Voiceover of the Week for his performance is the video game Out Of Sight.  Excellent work Phil, thoroughly enjoyed your performance!   If contacting animation and motion design companies is part of your marketing strategy, this is definitely one to listen to!   Thanks again to Jonny and Rach for taking the time to chat with us and the insights shared, definitely learned a few things! See you next week 👌   Michael can be found at https://www.manchestervo.co.uk Jen can be found at https://www.jenlawtonhunt.com Mighty Giant can be found at https://www.mightygiant.co.uk Phil Can be found at https://listen.philrowevoice.com/

    47 min

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Welcome to The Off Air Voiceover Podcast with Michael Ashtiany and Jen Lawton-Hunt. Join us for banter, personal opinions, and stories about being Voice Actors in this epic and ever evolving industry!