Drawing voices

In this article, Jacqueline Goss show us her findings from creating an animation called Stranger comes to town : 2007, in which she interviewed 6 people about their experiences coming across the border into The United States to either emigrate or visit. 
From this we learn that there is a very thorough process of checking identification such as finger print recognition that is now digitally done and they couldn't see anything like a screen to know what was going on.
These peoples recorded interviews were used to create a documentary style animation a little bit like creature comforts in the fact that its real life peoples stories but instead of seeing the people they came from, we see a made up character that appears to tell the story like it's their own. In stranger comes to town She uses characters from World of Warcraft, partly because on the game, the appearance decides where you come from in the game. This is the same with nationality. It shows that all of these people are different and probably not what you would expect to see from their voices. 
An interesting note was that all of the people that were interviewed chose a character that was the same gender as themselves. This made it easier for the animator as it would be more believable but I don't think that is what she was expecting.