Tom Kane, the prolific voice actor whose body of work included popular turns as Yoda on “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” and as Prof. Utonium on “The Powerpuff Girls,” died Monday at age 64. Kane suffered a stroke in 2020 that left him unable to speak or write and retired from acting thereafter. He made his first public appearance in years, reuniting with “The Powerpuff Girls” cast, at the Lexington Comic and Toy Convention in March. Read more from @THR:
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Last month, job boards for actors were flooded with ads looking for people to record “conversations, character voices, and natural speech to help train AI systems," for a project by Microsoft. Payment was orders of magnitude more than a normal acting gig — up to $80,000, where a national ad campaign for a big brand might ordinarily pay $6,000. @404mediaco's Rosie Thomas spoke to voice actors about the "Faustian bargain" of accepting such roles. "You're still taking away tomorrow's meal because they're offering you a little bit more,” says Katie Clark Gray.
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