Cam Clarke should have been dubbed "the voice of CD-i." And what's funny is that he kept getting all of these gigs at Philips without any referrals! One group would cast him, and without even realizing that he had every done another CD-i title, another group would cast him. I don't know how many titles he worked for, but I know he had at least one voice in every Funhouse title, and a voice in Oz (the Scarecrow). He also narrated Surf City (Philips Sidewalk) and Zombie Dinos (Philips POV).
Cam was the casting director on Oz, and he told me that both the casting session and the actual voice recording were unusual in the animation industry. The auditions were unusual because I didn't ask the actors to lock down a specific voice before I chose them; I was looking for a particular acting style and ability, knowing I could get the voice I wanted if I picked the right actor. Apparently this is unheard of, and actors are constantly trying to remember what they did in an audition when they actually get the part, sometimes months later.
The other unusual thing I did was to record all of the actors at once. Normally, the voices are recorded one at a time and then spliced together. It makes it easy to isolate and adjust voices in the mix. But I don't much care for the acting performances, and so I put everyone who was in a particular scene in the same room, each with a separate microphone, and had them play out the scenes in real time. The actors loved it, and, as you can hear, the performances were very lively.
[Thanks, Gordon]