Voice Acting??? >.<

[Calvinchun 3]

Hey guys!!

I have seen there are many voice acting recruit and a few game with voice act. So might as well try.

you see, My voice is annoying... So much >.<. And i ask here. I need just 1 voice actor. Ok the

require/Nessecary voice act is below.

 

Name : Ark (RESIDENT EVIL : GUN SURVIVOR)

Age : 22

Gender : Male

 

If you interested, please PM me. Then i send you the line.

(The voice acting is just used in cutscenes. )

THANKS!!

Edited March 13, 2012 by Calvinchun

[Polraudio 122]

If my mic wasnt broken i would do it for you. Im going to order one soon and it should be in monday(19th). Then i will give it a go. As for voices you need more information that just name age gender. Most people dont know who that is or what resident evil is.

 

I would do something like

 

Name: Ark

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Pic: Show pic of what the character looks like

Voice type: Dark? Light? Evil? Good? Maybe link to a youtube video so people can hear what he sounds like.

 

But send me a PM with the line and the information i just added and i will give it a go with my broken headset. I love voice acting(Mainly evil chracters).

[Heretic86 25]

Hey guys!!

I have seen there are many voice acting recruit and a few game with voice act. So might as well try.

you see, My voice is annoying... So much >.<. And i ask here. I need just 1 voice actor. Ok the

require/Nessecary voice act is below.

 

Name : Ark (RESIDENT EVIL : GUN SURVIVOR)

Age : 22

Gender : Male

 

If you interested, please PM me. Then i send you the line.

(The voice acting is just used in cutscenes. )

THANKS!!

 

"Annoying" (as you referred to yourself) Voices can also have their place in games as well, so dont discredit yourself so much. When I listen to Voice Acting, regardless if it is in a TV Show, Commercial, Indy Game or Big Budget Game, the only thing that I think sets me off is if the Voice Acting is Dry and Inappropriate for the Context being presented. To understand this, you need to listen to Bad Voice Acting as much as you do Good Voice Acting. Take the first Resident Evil released way back when, the voice acting was probably the worst I've ever heard. Not because their voices themselves were annoying, but Inappropriate for the Context being presented. A Car Commercial where the Voice implies the guy is about to die is Inappropriate for the Context being presented. Flip the coin, a Car Commercial Voice in a Horror Game is also Inaproprate for the Context.

 

I think you should give yourself a chance to do some of your own voice acting. I think you end up discrediting yourself for something you might be able to do very well. Why? Because it isnt your opinion of self that matters as much as the Players Opinion of the Voice matching the Context, which is something that comes across subconsciously in the Player. And every characteristic of your voice could very well match a game character better than another persons voice.

 

I have done professional voice acting and voice overs for Broadcast, Film, and Commercial content. And I didnt like my voice either when I first got into the field. I worked on the "Tech Side" of the productions, but just chit chatting with some of the On Air and On Camera types, they kept asking me to do voice overs for a couple of commercials because they thought my voice was a more appropriate voice match for the content than their own. I finally gave in, and I thought I sounded so bad that I was ashamed of my voice, and they thought it was perfect, kept it, and put it on air.

 

I keep referring to the Voice matching the Content and did give an example. But what the Observer expects depends on the Content. If they are watching a News Program, they expect to see a person better looking than themselves, and males have a bit deeper of a voice than their own, and hear perfectly pronounced words with perfectly timed pauses. But voice acting in Video Games is different. Guess what, neither one of us may have that "News Anchor Voice", but in Non News Content, people tend to expect the sound of the Voice to allow them to relate to that character. Put an IT Guy in a Video Game during a Zombie Apocolypse, and the audience will probably accept them more as a Nerdy High Pitched sounding Insecure guy with a Foreign Accent. That character becomes more believable, and it adds "Life" to the Game. The News Anchor Voice wouldnt make it through the Casting Call for the IT Guy Voice in a Zombie Apocolypse Game because their voice does not match the context.

 

Sure, maybe we dont have that characteristic "Hero Voice" but that doesnt mean that we dont have the best voice matches for other types of roles to be filled. So maybe we get Supporting Roles. Maybe we get the role of the Fast Food Clerk. No News Anchor Voice could possibly do that. We stumble over our lines, regardless if we are reading lines in a script, or just talking to people, and the things we dont like about our own voices is what really sells those characters and breathes life into them.

 

Every Film Actor by nature must also be a Voice Actor, as both their Appearance and Sound is what brings their character to life in movies. Look at games like GTA 4, the main character had a thick Russian Accent, that brought his character to life. We do NOT want that News Anchor Voice playing that particular Lead Role. At the same time, put the voice actor in for the movie Die Hard, and it blows the character, it becomes completely unbelievable and destroys the audiences sense of immersion in the film. As one of the Bad Guys, Niko could have very easily done voice acting and made it believable because the sound of their voice, the pitch, the bad timing on lines (which is a good thing), the accent, all would help sell those characters as Non Leader Roles and the sound of their voice supports the context of their role as not being the leader, but members of a foreign crime syndicate.

 

Now the "Dry Acting" is usually my biggest bitch about Voice Acting.

 

This is DRY ACTING

 

The Sound of their voices does NOT match the Context being delivered.

 

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This is just Shittiest Voice Acting I've ever heard

 

In its defense, later in the video, they do break down in to a much more Natural Laugh. I thought the context of the Fake Laughter was actually fine because they were supposed to be Fake Laughing, none the less, it comes across as a terrible

scene.

 

This is SUPERB VOICE ACTING (well, for me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg9jtQ5CEYo

 

The Accent and Sound sell the voice for me for this character

 

You dont have to sound like any of the voice actors in any of the videos to bring a character to life. You just have to sound like the audience might expect that character to sound in order to sell that character.

[Jon Bon 43]

Thanks for that Heretic, I couldn't agree more about context, well put. The only other piece of advice I could give, would be to record yourself before you judge, as my voice sounds totally different recorded/to others, then when I hear it spoken.

 

I sent him a PM about auditioning for this role, and I assume Pol did too, I think you should give it a go as well Heretic. I realize your voice may not suit, but I think it would be neat to hear everyone's take on the character.

[Calvinchun 3]

If my mic wasnt broken i would do it for you. Im going to order one soon and it should be in monday(19th). Then i will give it a go. As for voices you need more information that just name age gender. Most people dont know who that is or what resident evil is.

 

I would do something like

 

Name: Ark

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Pic: Show pic of what the character looks like

Voice type: Dark? Light? Evil? Good? Maybe link to a youtube video so people can hear what he sounds like.

 

But send me a PM with the line and the information i just added and i will give it a go with my broken headset. I love voice acting(Mainly evil chracters).

If my mic wasnt broken i would do it for you. Im going to order one soon and it should be in monday(19th). Then i will give it a go. As for voices you need more information that just name age gender. Most people dont know who that is or what resident evil is.

 

I would do something like

 

Name: Ark

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Pic: Show pic of what the character looks like

Voice type: Dark? Light? Evil? Good? Maybe link to a youtube video so people can hear what he sounds like.

 

But send me a PM with the line and the information i just added and i will give it a go with my broken headset. I love voice acting(Mainly evil chracters).

 

Thanks GUYS!

 

Resident Evil Description : Resident evil is a capcom game. In the big mansion you have to solve different puzzle and hunt zombies. You play either Jill Or Chris. But in my game i will make something very different.

 

Pol, You can take the main evil character... Wesker. XD

If you interested PM me.

 

Name : Wesker (Polraudio Has Taken)

Age : 28

Gender : Male

Pic : (I will improve wesker sprite.)

Voice Type: EVIL!

 

Name : Ark (JonBon has taken)

Age : 22

Gender : Male

Pic :

Voice Type : GOOD (Suspicious And puzzled Voice type)

Character Appearence : GOOD

 

I agree with jon... I already try to record but my voice is not suit with the character.

(P.S : I will send the character line to Jon and Pol. And sorry for the double quotes. If i delete 1 of them, A error would appear.)

Edited March 14, 2012 by Calvinchun

[Action Kasper 1]

may be off topic, but how do you add the voices in without bloating the game's overall filesize? that would be the killer for me since my connection speed is slow. it already takes over an hour to get my game uploaded to dropbox or rapidshare and it's only ~118mb.

[Arkbennett 16]

Usually you can find some type of Sound Recording software that might help compress the file size and retain quality. Otherwise, there is no way.

 

I've tired to do voice acting. It was just so weird on a 2D game. =(

Definately need to have potraits with the text bubble.

[Jon Bon 43]

Agreed, portraits help, but are definitely not needed. Disgaea (a 2D turn based strategy RPG) has some of the best voice acting I have ever seen in a game. And has me enthralled when I play it, even though the on screen pictures/portraits only have mild animation, the acting is so well done, it makes you feel like you are there. I find myself listening more than watching during the cut scenes in that game for that very reason. I don't know if you have ever listened to a book on tape, or a radio play, but there are no pictures there, and it helps more than hinders. I believe his game only uses the voice for cut scenes, and not generic game play. I think it'll transfer well.

[ramza1337 1]

I love voice acting, if the pace is right. It definitely is no a neccessity for me, I have always been an avid reader, and as such I tend to read quickly. Most of the time, I get impatient with voice acting when it moves so much slower then the subtitles. I often skip through. However, if the effect is cinematic and the acting interesting it adds alot.

 

I want to use voice acting in my game, yet, I'm not sure whether its worth the file size (otherwise i certainly would.) But even still, it kinda loses its edge when every character has a voice, and they repeat.

 

With Disgaea, there wasn't alot of wandering around, the story development relied on the scenes between characters, which were entertaining, but also gained some potency simply because it was all the dialouge you really had. Its the difference between an ice cream cone, or ten ice cream cones. the last cone you kinda just wanna hurry up and finish.

[albertibay 0]

Though Voice acting could add atmosphere to the game, Take Warcraft for example the voice acting is placed in the middle of the game, And it still sounds good out of the cutscenes, If we could just make Dynamic sounds we could make a milestone in RMXP gaming. Think about it