How Many?

[Jon Robbins]

Hi Bob. You have many inspirational posts on other sites...thank you for giving back, offering guidance and encouraging us to never give up the dream despite naysayers in the peanut gallery. I posted this question in the welcome forum...how many animation workshops and classes, how much time and effort and how many auditions before you were able to break through and nail it?

[Bob Bergen]

Originally Posted by Jon Robbins

Hi Bob. You have many inspirational posts on other sites...thank you for giving back, offering guidance and encouraging us to never give up the dream despite naysayers in the peanut gallery. I posted this question in the welcome forum...how many animation workshops and classes, how much time and effort and how many auditions before you were able to break through and nail it?

Hi Jon!


I answered this on another thread, but I'm happy to answer again here. AND you get the honor of being my first question!!!

Well, I got my first agent after 4 years of VO workshops. A week after high school I got my first cartoon and agent. Then I spent 5 years as a tour guide at Universal Studios, working on occasion. So it took me about 5 years before I was able to make a living at it. But I was in workshops weekly (Daws Butler) till I started teaching my own.

It takes a while. But the business isn't going anywhere. You just need to be prepared when opportunity knocks.