Once you see the voice actor, is the cartoon runied for you?

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I loved to watch cartoons about talking animals. Lion King was my special intrest for years and still is. But whenever I see the voice actors recording a part for said character, the cartoon is ruined for me. I lived in an elabrate fantasy world as a kid as a way to cope with the bullies and people who just didn't understand me. Lion King was a major part of my fantasy world and when I saw a documentary about Lion King and Nathan Lane and the others recording the voices it kinda killed it for me. When people say they want to kill themselves after realising Avatar isn't real I can sympathise with them becuase I felt that way when I realised I could never live in the Pridelands and be friends with Timon and other others.

My best friend wanted to watch videos of her favorite bands on You Tube once and it turned out that her favorite songs were some of my favorites as well. Once I saw the faces of the singers, it kinda killed said song for me. I think I am a pathological misanthrope. I just hate people and have since a little kid. Autistic and being uncomfortable with eye contact dosen't help my case either. But anyway are things ruined for you when you see who makes them? Even when people here on Wrong Planet post pictures of themselves in real life it kinda ruins WP for me. I avoid putting pictures of myself up because I'm being targed by cyber bullies and am trying to keep a low profile and in case someone here has the same issue I do.

seeing alan reed gesticulate with some real verve, made me appreciate fred flintstone the cartoon character all that much more.

Not so much. I think I saw Nancy Cartwright do Bart Simpson once on the Tonight Show. It was strange hearing Bart's voice come out of her mouth, but I like learning about the process of how they bring various elements together to create an illusion. It is the same way with special effects in SciFi and horror movies for me, at least before it was all computer generated.

I do like some mystery on the internet. The imagination is almost always better than reality. Not so much disappointment, but your mind fills in the blanks and adds a mysterious quality to someone. Once that is gone, it has an anticlimactic feel to it.

I'm ok when I know the cartoon before I know the actor. When I recognize the actor's voice while watching the cartoon, it's all over.

Actually, I love learning about the actors and creators of films/series I enjoy. Even when anime was my special interest, I liked memorizing the names of the voice actors in different series. It even helped me relax whenever I recited them!

I remember when I first saw a picture of Crispin Freeman, who did the English dubbed voice of Alucard in Hellsing. I was pleasantly surprised at how handsome he actually is. I mean, his voice is terrific, but not everyone who has a great voice has a great appearance, so that was a nice surprise. I felt the same way when I saw a picture of Troy Baker, who did the English dubbed voice of Abel Nightroad in Trinity Blood.

Now I'm into live-action movies and TV shows, but that presents a different sort of problem for me: it's difficult for me to accept the fact that the actors are not the same as the characters they portray. It's much easier to accept if they wear a lot of makeup or do something different with their hair when they play a certain character, like Johnny Depp often does. But the more the actors look like their character in everyday life, the harder it is for me to accept that they actually aren't the character.

Case in point: I spent pretty much all summer being in love with Helena Bonham Carter. I had actually fallen in love with her character, Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd, but in my mind Helena herself was no different than her. I began formulating plans to send her gifts, write her letters and I even planned out a script of a short film about her that was to be set to the song "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga. But one day, I began watching interviews she had done and I gradually came to accept the fact that she is not the same person as Mrs. Lovett. After that, I stopped obsessing over her.

Yes. Seeing their names also ruins it. I know them as their cartoon name and don't want to know their real one.

Not in the slightest. Pretty much everyone knew the Toy Story voice actors before the films release and I enjoyed all 3 of them!
I also find it quite interesting that the same actor will often do numerous voices on the same cartoon.

Me too, kinda. On the other extreme to the OP question, I've watched anime series (in Japanese) BECAUSE of particular voice actors (seiyuu) that I'm a fan of from other series or live events or whatever else. I guess maybe going back some years I might've felt that way but then again most of the series I've been involved in in communities have had connections in some way to the voice artists. When I was collecting Jem stuff, I had the scripts from the writer signed and the autograph of the singing and speaking voice of the main villain character (two people) so I guess I don't mind the real life aspect.

It also amuses me watching seiyuu do live versions of their characters on stage, especially when they adlib or have a particularly funny skit.

I like knowing the voice actors. I'm always interested in this stuff, because I want to get into that some day myself. I think it would be very fun. I too watch anime in Japanese. And now recognize the voice actors and what characters they played in other animes. I am nerd hear me rawr.

It's kind of odd at first, especially when you see a Japanese voice actor effortlessly sound like Chiyo from Azumanga Daioh, but I soon become interested in it (one of my special interests was voice acting in the sixth grade; I wanted to become a voice actress to make anime dubs sound less stupid and more like they're supposed to sound---amazing).

Neah. I think it's cool to see actors play voices of the characters. When I see a movie or see a preview of it and names pop up, I find it pretty exciting to see the actor names I recognize and see what voice of characters they play. Plus when I am looking on IMDB and see an actor is going to do a voice of a character in a new movie.

Sometimes when you watch other movies, you can recognize a character's voice in it because it's the same actor.

For me, it's not cartoons that get ruined, but movies or characters.

One example is, I love Darth Maul. But I'd NEVER want to see the face behind the makeup or know anything about the actor's personal life. I've avoided other movies and shows that he's been in, and I will never look up stuff about him. If I saw him in real life, I'd avoid him like the plague. I might even glance away, avoiding looking in his direction. But I love the character that he played.

Na. I can't associate names and faces very well. So if you said Joe Schmoe did some cartoon's voice, I'd very likely forget his name in a few minutes.

Nope, they're not ruined for me.

I, for one, appreciate the voice actors much more than your average person, and like to put faces to the characters.

I have no problem with knowing who's voicing what. In fact, I tend to identify a lot of voices, even if they're not speaking in their normal voices. I'll be watching a cartoon and all of a sudden I hear a voice that sounds familiar, and I might notice right away that it's for example Rob Paulsen or Kevin Michael Richardson, or it might take a minute before I realize it's someone like Peri Gilpin or some other random regular actor doing a voice gig. I think it's particularly fun to spot "obscure" people like that. At times I've even managed to identify voices that have been digitally manipulated (pitch-shifted, for example).
So no. I don't have a problem with it at all. I'm kind of fascinated with the craft.