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With the departures of Trevor Devall and Matt Hill to LA in 2013, the possible loss of their flagship Gundam series to NYAV Post due to Right Stuf's (the company that has made a deal with Sunrise to be the future distributor for the Gundam series) close ties with that company, and Viz and AoA not bothering to use Vancouver as an alternative to LA dubs (which actually are more expensive than Vancouver dubs and it's getting increasingly hard to hire Union-only VAs in the LA area to appear in dubs ever since the recession) because they find LA to be of better value for their dubs than Vancouver thanks to the recession (the recession pretty much convinced the companies that Vancouver area studios simply weren't doing as good of a job as they had in the past), are Vancouver voiceover productions going to go by the way of the dinosaur?
It's quite problematic because it seems that in the eyes of the entertainment companies, LA-based casts are the only ones that matter (as good as they may be), in spite of its overexposure. The only exceptions are Dallas and Houston, although that's pretty much because that's where Funimation and Sentai are based there, respectively, and use them for their voiceover productions, and even then, barely anyone's ever willing to give them pre-lay work (virtually all of Dallas's and Houston's voiceover productions are ADR), with the exception of games (and even then, it's a rarity, being only limited to companies that are based there). This leads to an extremely black-and-white situation on voice acting in general since the recession: Either you do it really cheaply by yourself, or you hire expensive union talent in LA. There is essentially no middle ground, no alternatives.
It's quite problematic because it seems that in the eyes of the entertainment companies, LA-based casts are the only ones that matter (as good as they may be), in spite of its overexposure. The only exceptions are Dallas and Houston, although that's pretty much because that's where Funimation and Sentai are based there, respectively, and use them for their voiceover productions, and even then, barely anyone's ever willing to give them pre-lay work (virtually all of Dallas's and Houston's voiceover productions are ADR), with the exception of games (and even then, it's a rarity, being only limited to companies that are based there). This leads to an extremely black-and-white situation on voice acting in general since the recession: Either you do it really cheaply by yourself, or you hire expensive union talent in LA. There is essentially no middle ground, no alternatives.