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The advantage to this is it can assist the animator in getting the details and mannerisms to look correct, since it is even easier to reproduce the mannerisms of an actor in three dimensions than in (the already commonly done) two dimensions. Also, there is more "acting" in voice acting than most people think; it is almost impossible to voice act properly without making facial expressions and gestures in front of the microphone.

* InkSuitActor/{{Coincidences}}

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* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' has Shigeo Shiba, modeled after and voiced by... well, Creator/ShigeruChiba.

** In the ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' webcast ''Dead and Buried'', [[http://images.wikia.com/tardis/images/0/06/Benny_torch.png Bernice]] looks quite a bit like her voice actress, Creator/LisaBowerman. But then, she [[http://images.wikia.com/tardis/images/9/94/NA009_loveandwar.jpg always did]], long before Bowerman was cast.

* The 2021 Marks and Spencers Christmas ad stars a Christmas fairy voiced by Creator/DawnFrench, who looks exactly like Dawn French.

Many animation purists (and voice actors such as Creator/BillyWest) criticize the practice, calling it "StuntCasting" and denigrating it as breaking SuspensionOfDisbelief or pandering to the actor. Some also insinuate that big names are cast instead of talented unknowns because the story couldn't support itself on its own, and the talent hired is not really relevant to the story or role anyway. In addition, the studios who do this often seem to assume that voice acting is a simpler facsimile of "real" acting, when in fact, it requires a completely different set of skills.

* [[EvilSorceror Yasunori Kato]] from the Doomed Megalopolis OVA based on ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'' shares his voice actor Kyusaku Shimada's long face and jawline. Fitting, as Shimada also portrayed Kato in the previous, live-action, adaptation The Last Megalopolis.

* Just about every Comicbook/{{Blade}} comic since 1998 makes him look like [[Film/{{Blade}} his first movie portrayer]] Creator/WesleySnipes.
* ''Comicbook/AmericanFlagg'': Reuben Flagg was an actor living on Mars and starring in the hit TV series ''Mark Thrust, Sexus Ranger''. But a CGI technology called Tromplography™ perfectly duplicated Flagg's character, making Flagg himself superfluous. Flagg was fired, then drafted into the ''actual'' Plexus Rangers.

** In the webcast version of "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada}} Shada]]", all of the humanoid guest characters look like the actors who voiced them in the webcast rather than the actors who appeared in the unfinished live-action version. This was because some of the animation was done by rotoscoping to save money.

* The Radio 4 website's ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v379k page]] is illustrated by a cartoon of the main characters of the Hexagonal Phase. Arthur, Zaphod and Trillian look the same as they did in the TV series (played by the same actors), but Ford is based on his voice actor, Geoffrey [=McGivern=], and not his TV actor, David Dixon. Random Dent, who never appeared on TV, is drawn to resemble Samantha Béart, and Left Brain (formerly Zaphod's second head, which on TV was an animatronic that looked as much like Mark Wing-Davey as the FX team could manage) is Music/MitchBenn's head in a jar.

Many animation purists (and voice actors such as Creator/BillyWest) criticize the practice, calling it "StuntCasting" and denigrating it as breaking SuspensionOfDisbelief or pandering to the actor. Some also insinuate that big names are cast instead of talented unknowns because the story couldn't support itself on its own, and the talent hired is not really relevant to the story or role anyway. In addition, the studios who do this often seem to assume that voice acting is a simpler facsimile of "real" acting; in fact, it requires a completely different set of skills.

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