The importance of following your passions and getting yourself to move forward one step at a time…
Channel: Moments of Clarity With Tiffany
Date: 28/10/2021

Thursday October 28th,   12-1pm EST on "Moments Of Clarity with Tiffany" is  a special guest, Chris Woodworth

Chris has spent years animating for many successful video games, bringing characters to life in games such as Grand Theft Auto 4 and Killzone 2. Aside from that, he has also animated for many of the popular Lego video games studio, TT Games, animating for games such as Lego Batman, Lego Pirates Of The Carribean, Lego Lord Of The Rings, Lego Harry Potter and many more, right up to the upcoming Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga(coming 2022). Some of these games won BAFTA Awards.

On the side of the animation work, Chris spent years being hired as a close up magician, performing at festivals, weddings, parties and corperate events all over the UK and abroad. Through his travels and adventures, his exposure to different cultures and different types of people leant itself to the characters he was bringing to life in the video games he worked on. That and his life long love for movies and TV shows fuelled his ongoing passion for voice impressions and acting.

As he was unable to do voice over work for any of the video games he worked on, due to certain company restrictions, he decided a change was needed. During the pandemic, his side passion in magic aside and focused on voice over work, as this was now becoming his new passion. He took acting courses, and started focusing his social media content on acting, impressions and voice over. As TT Games held a Global Games Jam, which involved teams of employees creating games in the space of 2 days, 4 different teams ended up calling upon Chris for his voice over skills, from a pair of wise cracking crows, to a a soldier marooned on an alien planet, a cold AI system on a space station, and a giant person in a bath playing with toys. Chris had officially caught the voice over bug!

Early 2021, Chris was randomly offered a role in a pet commercial, which is still being aired on British TV and youtube to this very day. He was also introduced to the audio networking app, Clubhouse, and his voice over journey was officially moving forward. TT Games supported him in this side career, and after a while of networking with other Voice Actors and Producers, Chris was invited to take part in the Voice Over Contest, hosted by the 529 Club Creatives(based at Pinewood Studios, UK) and Mark Summers Presents(UK Agency).

This was the first international Voice Over Contest and hundreds of people were given a chance to perform in front of a panel of judges from all over the world. Chris showcased his skills in the first week and was voted by the audience to go through to the semi finals! In time for the semi finals, he wrote and performed a 2 minute piece, demonstrating his range and dexterity. As a result, he recieved excellent feedback from all of the judges and the audience voted him first to go through to the finals. He found himself side by side in the finals with 5 other friends, and even though Ellie Rodz(a talented young voice actor from Miami) won, all of the finalists(including Chris) have been very busy ever since then. Chris even started a club on Clubhouse, bringing together a network of voice actors of different levels, so they could experiment, learn from each other and support each other. The club is called Voiceover & Impressions.

Chris put his own Voice Studio together, was mentored by 2 different seasoned professionals in the voice over industry, and is currently a student of Voice Masters, based in California. He continues to stay on top of his game with his character voices and narration reads etc. He even is taking part in a Halloween audio play, organised the 529 Club Creatives on Clubhouse, where he'll be abandoning his British accent for an American accent.

Currently, Chris can do up to around 50 voice impressions, replicating celebrities and characters such as Elmo, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Peter Griffin, Marj Simpson, David Attenborough, Ian Mckellen, and Groot(from Guardians Of The Galaxy). Even though Chris is from the north west of England, he can replicate a general American accent, a London Cockney accent, and a Nigerian accent.

Chris had the pleaure of teaming up with Ellie Rodz to provide voices for the characters in an animated short student film, which will be released sometime in 2022. This was a chance to create character voices and push the range further, while applying his acting skills. Chris's love for good monologues helps to fuel the fire.

TT Games has currently started using Chris for scratch voices for characters, when they need to test out scenes in their current projects. With a brand new, professional studio that's up and running at his home, and the valuable contacts and skills he has acquired, Chris currently spends his free time sending out voice over auditions and homing in his craft any way he can.

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