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Urgh. Brace yourselves, this is one hell of a boring story. I am taking up the creation of Audiobooks as a hobby. Because it's really the only way to force me to practice in my constant lethargy in getting a goddamned job in this economy. I live in New Zealand, where the job market in the business sector died so far as entry-levels are concerned, with every Accounts Assistant job having up to 500 applicants and a short list of 80. I wish I was joking. This made me think of other career options - I had two things going for me, a fantastic voice with an accent nobody can place and a clever brain. People pressured me into getting into Radio or doing documentaries, and for a short period over last year I started taking lessons from Mike Drew of the BBC. Good man, seems to have it in for Tony Jay, no idea why. Also never seems to have heard of Jim Cummings. Does great documentaries, though, and voiced this old three musketeers thing. Anyway, I was still clever enough to realise that I wasn't going to get work as a VA or a host. Not only do radiohosts get poo poo pay here, but the tuition to get official 'You won't gently caress up on air' credentials is aprox $10,000 over two semesters. gently caress that noise. So I decided to take up VA as a hobby - Maybe do a few cartoons and games here so my little brothers can say 'Naba voiced *insert side character/extra here* in *indie title X*' and maybe get a few bucks on the side. I check out a couple of spots to get some exposure (Nothing domestic exists) and ended up at a spot called ACX.com; I do a slight ripoff by doing my best impression of Sindri Myr's 'All power is sacrifice' speech and leave that as an example while I went to chase some other stuff. I'd drat well forgotten about it until I get two offers in the same day. The second was actually a well written novel about two brothers in Victorian England, with homosexual overtones. The first... ... Is It's this first story I want to talk about. The characters aren't interesting (Either being a Gary Stu, a grey love interest or a walking stereotype based on race and sexuality), the story is contrived and ARGH. I've agreed to finish it and upload it before the 31st, but for the love of god I don't really know if I want to finish this and have it stain me. Does anyone else have bad experiences with terrible material that they could share? I wanna put this into perspective. e: I decided to get into English Teaching as a career. What? I have good enunciation. e e: Also I received the goddamn script three months ago and I'm polishing it off now because uuuuuugh it's horrible and I'd just bought Skyrim. WarpedNaba fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jul 29, 2013 |
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^ All you have to do is sound like Steve Blum and you can replace him. Seriously, the only voice Steve Blum does is Steve Blum.
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Aug 12, 2013 22:04
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 Gave it a shot.
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Aug 28, 2013 22:21
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 What is it about old cartoon openings that make me wanna speak at things?
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Sep 28, 2013 05:10
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I do most of my voicework lying down. Once you get the breathing trick down, it's actually quite effective.
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Oct 2, 2013 06:25
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Gimme some poo poo to do, lads. Next Audiobook for the Blind Foundation ain't gonna be ratified for another two weeks.
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Oct 16, 2013 13:21
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Definitely. I could use a little practice with my narration.
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Oct 25, 2013 23:29
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  If I done butted up, lemme know.
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Oct 28, 2013 00:44
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Dragonatrix posted:So, I've been looking around for voice workshop kinda stuff in the UK for a while now (didn't know this thread existed until fairly recently) and it seems that they all boil down to one question: "do you live in, or reasonably close to, London?" That's a good 200 or so miles from where I live right now, so I get the impression that on that front I'm basically hosed. Is there anyone else in the UK that isn't in London who can confirm/deny this? I've worked with Mike Drew and it's pretty much as you say. London is the L.A of Britain, what with the BBC parking its rear end right there.
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Nov 21, 2013 08:09
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The Snowball mic is p good, from my experience.
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Dec 4, 2013 04:16
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Oh god, I got swamped with gay erotica titles until I just decided to cut my ends and leave ACX. I've nothing against voicing it, but it's either badly written or I'm requested to do it with the voice of Michael Jackson. You've heard my clips. This is impossible. Plus, I didn't wanna be pigeon-holed.
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Dec 13, 2013 10:42
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Perhaps he just wants good english with a slight Asian twang, like this particular instance, which isn't stereotypical and sounds quite nice. Otherwise, if it's a space station scientist you're doing, there's no way You can't do this
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Dec 16, 2013 20:22
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ACX is okay if you wanna practice. I personally bailed out of it due to A) Not being American and thus unable to grab cash B) Constantly being asked to read homosexual erotica.
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Jan 27, 2014 11:44
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You want to be a voice actor? Yes. Can you voice act? Probably. Can you be a good voice actor? Heh. You want to voice on My Little Pony? You need professional help, not a facebook column.
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Feb 21, 2014 15:18
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I would've loved to work on that myself, personally. Freespace 2 was loving amazing and it deserves better than rusting away while Interplay fucks itself.
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Mar 24, 2014 14:16
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I'm afraid I don't really fit for anything you're asking to the point of nailing it. Especially if you believe you're well sorted for male roles.
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Mar 24, 2014 17:14
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A fair thing to note is that you can always land small gigs here on SA. I've done voicework for mods, kickstarter narrations, LPs and such. Be a good goon and do it for peanuts if you're into it for a hobby. It's good exposure work, and most goons are happy to at least stop their accountant complaining by gifting you a game or two via steam as payment.
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Apr 16, 2014 13:54
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JossiRossi posted:Still here! Had a fair bit going on to distract me lately. I'm still totally willing to edit a project down and help organize but we do need a script. I'd love to do an original story but I'm really not all the strong a writer/adapter. Count me considering to lend support, if needed.
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Apr 17, 2014 13:35
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CaptainYesterday posted:Dan Green once did hentai. He told a woman to cluck like a chicken. True story. That mention coupled with your avatar raises unfortunate questions. Also gently caress, now I remember that.
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May 14, 2014 13:40
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Naturally deep, booming and sinister is my specialty, lad. Count me in.
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Jun 13, 2014 02:43
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I should do method acting more often
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Jul 4, 2014 17:53
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The Joe Man posted:
Given these a shot. WarpedNaba fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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Sep 17, 2014 16:50
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I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that.
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Sep 21, 2014 06:02
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I may have started down a horrible path from which there is no return.
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Sep 21, 2014 10:49
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Hot bonkin'.
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Oct 14, 2014 02:38
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Good stuff.
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Oct 20, 2014 14:01
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Yeah, it looks like my job will be seeing some downtime soon, certainly wouldn't mind doing some more rounds of VA.
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Nov 5, 2014 02:33
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Thought I'd give you guys a heads-up, the developers of the XCOM Long War mod are now in the active recruitment stage and they're looking for female voice actors able to give of the impression of Commonwealth soldiers. This includes Australians.
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Nov 15, 2014 03:58
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/2il5pm/lw_call_for_voice_actors/
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Nov 16, 2014 03:52
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Sounds good. Count me in.
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Dec 24, 2014 03:33
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Sweet pickin', Joe.
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Mar 12, 2015 05:42
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Rockin', dude. Hope you enjoy your otaku fanboys dribbling on your shoes!  I kid, nice job.
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Mar 19, 2015 04:57
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Choose to do erotica audiobooks if the idea of constantly voicing generic homosexual self-insert fiction appeals to you.
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Mar 24, 2015 02:19
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... and who, exactly, is our dear goon voicing in all of this?
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Mar 24, 2015 04:06
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blinkeve1826 posted:Gotta make this quick as I'm swamped with this, BUT I'm casting an awesommmmmme video game and you are all invited to audition for it! Ta muchly.
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Mar 27, 2015 22:57
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Can't do a Norse accent without sounding like a Skyrim ripoff. Tried anyway!
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Mar 30, 2015 12:45
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I used to feel the same way, honestly. I'd compare, say, Hedy Burgess to Kath Soucie, and Yuri Lowethal to Jim Cummings or Tony Jay. I'd concluded that VA standards had dropped considerably from the mid-nineties onwards. Then it occurred to me that the VAs might not have actually dropped in skill, but the standard of writing and the freedom of expression and improvisation they once had has fallen. You might be a fantastic actor, but a lovely script and a shittier director might have you sounding like Dan Green when he's banging anime waifus.
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Jun 14, 2015 14:55
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You would think that with the advent of CGI and digital animation that we'd see a new wave of decent writing (And paid work!) Sadly, it ain't so.
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'Allo lads, I'd like to talk a little hardware. I've got a Blue brand Snowball mic, by and large this (and a little tweaking in audacity) serves me well enough, but I've been thinking about investing in a Voicecube to improve the quality of my recordings. Is it worth the odd two-hundred it'll cost me? Will there be a significant improvement in quality? I can't exactly remodel any part of my apartment into a studio, so I have to make do with more compact measures.
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How come all the big/decent studios are in another country? 
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