Caruu - Voice actor

I wanna dedicate a blog page to Selserene and her cat Sheebee. It is a sad thing to lose something special.
Most of us has experienced the turmoils of life, and everyone someday will. Even though we all experience pain and loss, we all take and handle it differently. Pain is simply a word which there is no description to.
Some people cannot perceive why losing an animal can be painful, but most of us can.
So my heart and well wishes goes to Selserene and her husband who lost their furry friend.

Go to her blog and read Sheebee’s story: Selserene’s blog

For alittle awhile ago I was asked to do some voices: Kil’jaeden, a narrator and Arthas.

I appreciate getting the opportunity to do Arthas, I love Justin Gross way of acting, and felt I had to repay a homage to how he does that evil brooding style with his voice as Arthas - when he turned from good prince to evil conquer.

Kil’jaeden is also one of my favorite characters from warcraft lore, as he is a force of destruction. Doing his voice was not easy, the guy who did the warcraft 3 version made him sound very…”I could sell you your own grandma” kinda voice and also, there is the problem of how much of it is effects and how much of it is real. I ended up doing loads of different versions of his voice and applying effects to them as I went along but I think the result in the end is very satisfying.

I hate doing Narration…I hate it badly. It is one of those voices where you cannot really put too much emotions into it and trying to balance that fact with the reality that you are reading from a script and avoiding to sound like you are. So despite the narration part, I am really looking forward to seeing the movie when it’s done.

The movie is of course by nihilum.
Considering that the other actors in the movie is by the same studio I’m a member of, I felt this was a great opportunity to talk about Skyfall studios as well.

Skyfall studios is a studio set together by artists to create art and share. It is meant to entertain, educate and awe-inspire.
The studio is working in all sorts of medias so that we can provide in all fields.
Skyfall studios joined nihilum to share our voice over talents but we provide of course more than just VO’s.

We are always looking for more talents in all sorts of fields but we are kinda strict on some levels. We try to avoid it being a machinima talent gathering. Meaning that if you want to talk about machinima, you should do that either on WCM’s forum or Machinima.com.
We want concept artists, sound designers, music composers, voice talents, 3d animators, modelers texture artists, screen actors. ect. ect. Long as you can do something considered to be art in some way, you are welcome to join.

If you are a voice talent and wanna join the official Skyfall studio voice talent group, there are some demands:
1) You gotta have demos, 2) you gotta have a showcase of your work and last but not least. 3) you gotta have good recording equipment. As some of the request we’ve gotten is from professional media, we wanna be able to provide them with good quality recordings.
If you wanna still join and meet these demands; email me: Carummerian(at)gmail(dot)Com with your profile on skyfall studio, your previous work, your recording equipment details and of course demos. And we’ll see if you fit the criteria.

Until next time, GxG

So some actual voice acting stuff here.

Recently I voiced for a funny small cinematic Little Teapot

by Eagleshadow, which also features Drewbie, moomoney and Marri.
I voiced for the trailer voice narration and redid the song I’m a little teapot. Moomoney, drewbie and Marri sang in it. It was meant to be silly so the result is silly. In case for some reason you want their singing, you can get them here:
Moo&Drewbie Duet
Drewbie Solo
Instrumental Techno Version
Piano And Oboe

Allo,

While the Oto ninja design blog is being redesigned and a huge major release is being made with all sorts of goodies for you people. I wanted to release something extra; Okay now keep in mind I am a newbie in music and I can’t really compose. I’m not exactly Nathan Pinard, that boy got some serious music skeelz but he is expensive as well but I understand his reasoning.
So here is some tunes that I’ve made for you guys.
I composed 2-3 of them and rest is by a friend of mine.
You are allowed to use these for free in everything except anything commercial.
In the end (emoItDoesn’tEvenMatter/emo!!!)it all depends if you wanna use them.
As I said, I’m not very good yet.

http://files.filefront.com/MusicxCaruuzip/;11389759;/fileinfo.html

MUQ (Made Up Questions):
Q: What program do you use?
A Propellerheads Reason
Q: For composing too?
A: We use Sibelius for composing and putting them into MIDI and then put them in Reason. After that there is a serious number of tweaks
Q: Is all the instruments you used in this Program?
A: No, the choirs is a different software that I had to buy separately, called Symphony Of Voices, also the Piano and flute is played by yours truly.
Q: Will you compose for my machinima\project?
A: No, I don’t have the time, nor the will to make your project suck :), Talk to Nathan instead.
Q: Can I ask you questions about these programs?
A: No, you got the Internet, use it.
Q: Will you release more?
A: Yes, if I find the time to fail more in composing or ruin the original composition by my friend.
Q: I want to use the music in a contest, can I?
A: Yes, just give credit. Link to the blog if you can

So that’s it, have fun with it even tho I suck at it.
Keep in touch cos soon there will be an epic release from the OND (haha ond…that’s a good one *you must be Scandinavian to get that joke*)

The contests are over. My thoughts of them are mixed but WCM messed up big time.
First of all; for the movie contest, there was martins movie, who had been given green light by the WCM people to use the YMCA song. Now the bullshit part of that, is that they are using the “it is a remix” excuse…which doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter if is a remix or not. You still would have to pay a license to use the song.
It is by law.
In truth, you cannot use 1 second of a cover song without first paying to license it.

The reason alone for why both Pinkhair&baronsoosdon and martin falch was allowed the things they were
was because they stream people to the site because they both wanted to win. This gets WCM revenue, so it is a marketing decision from WCM’s side. The wegames people are doing it right while WCM is not.
They are gonna have judges vote instead of public votes, which is what it should be. It should be judged by skills not on how many friends and people you can lure in to vote for you.
Until people at WCM can do this, I suggest wait to participate in their contests. There be less QQ and more fun for everyone.

In the end here I wanna thank the listeners of Animenfo radio for listening to all the demos and deciding to vote. Also everyone at #machinima that contributed to the contest voting.

People who wanted me to credit them by name:
katanashi hellsatins hellrulez legotracker ManCakes dudewheresmycar omnomnom
Neutron neuty91 Rayuki Pinkhair baronsoosdon Selserene neutyfruity An00biz Irks
Volltrottel ichbindoof mondlicht Volltrottel sillycontest pandaftw keineahnung
justspamming lolirape cocknballs sirBJ cakeblock itembloxed mobbedsally dudefaggalot
ihatemylife creativityen iliedman An00bizSucks yeshedoes whyhallo HEYGAYZ
interpretive dancebattle letmedie youbetterwin sampanda ifyoudont illbeupset
becausei wastedmy timedoing thisfor nothingisupp butiguessi getdelicious
treatsfor doingthis gargl Shiomi yxcvbbnm and trottelig Tenelka qaywsx acruellife ololololol

*this post will update with streams and further links*
*IF DANIEL OR MARTIN HAVE ANY PICTURE THEY WANT ME TO PUT UP HERE, EMAIL ME!*

The Synergy contest for best machinima video is over.

At first we have  Busted by Baron Soosdon & Pinkhair

with 46% - 299 votes. Congratulations guys.
I voiced the tauren and orc and voice foleyed several of the characters.
And I also sound designed some of the movie, and audio leveled everything. Considering that the sound design was hurried cos Baron and pinkhair started so late in making their movie, I had to use some blizzard sounds as well as sound library sounds. Sound design takes a very long time. There were times I just wanted to stab BaronSoosdon & Pinkhair but it worked out in the end I think.

Busted Wallpapers *by Pinkhair*: 1, 2, 3,

Second we have The Best Kept Secret of the Horde by Martin Falch

with 45%  - 296 votes. Congratulations Dane.
A highly speculated piece of film by many, cos of the music usage.
Awesome voice acts by Cox and Matt Greenburg.
Sound is not too bad either. The script didn’t justify the movie
Good effort there Martin Falch

Third we have The Best Kept Secret of the Horde by Daniel Nordh

with 3% - 19 votes. Congratulations Swede.
A great piece, highly original piece of art. He did the same for his christmas one but it still should be noted for being great! I voiced for all the characters in it. And it was fun. I am looking forward for future movies from Daniel Nordh

All in all, I am quite pleased to be apart of 2 movies that won. Well done all three of you!

Aye say I.

Allo allo, oto ninja design is currently creating their first sound design packages which contains everything a machinima guy\gurl could need. From Scifi to fantasy to World War stuff.  Until the offical package is released on their blog. Here is a small taste on what more will come: SoundDMinipackage

The contest just got more tense, you can now vote for your favorite voice actor. I go by Caruu (duuuh) so place your bets.

Have a good day,

GxG.

Allo, I spent some time on the last post to talk about the movie I SD and voice acted for which was made with Pinkhair&BaronSoosdon. Co- actors: Selserene, olibith and before I forget; Drewbie who I didn’t mention last post. Sorry :\

I was tired and beat after Designing for that movie. And in the joy of being done I forgot about a guy I did voices for. Daniel Nordh. I’m so sorry man. I really am. I loved your style of the movie and it is hard for me to vote.  Daniel did something original and deserves to be noted for that if not winning the entire thing. I voiced all the characters for him and it was very fun. thanks Daniel for asking me along and good luck.

Go onto http://warcraftmovies.com/contest.php and vote for your fav movie

*pictures done by Pinkhair*

Pinkhair & BaronSoosdon:

Daniel Nordh:

*The image should link you to the movie when it is up and running*

Allo allo, recently been lots of hard work being done to a contest video that Pinkhair and BaronSoosdon been working ever so diligently with. I voice act for two Characters: the Tauren and the Orc.

Selserene also stepped in as the gnome and warlock.
I ended up doing the Sound design for it too, but don’t expect something of epic proportions as I kinda just washed through it. There is no walking sounds because we started so late in the productions and sound design takes time, so I had to just go through it quickly adding the sounds that was necessary.

Pinkhair added some excellent animations, there is one that became my favorite and it is brutal. I’ll leave it at that you have to see it  for yourself.

BaronSoosdon did as he always does, take everything that is and make it better. The script was not really in my opinion the best out there, but Baron managed to make it something visual appealing.

All in all, though it went through some hard times it was also interesting to see how we all dealt with the stressy situation. When it comes online, click the picture that pinkhair provided and it shall take you directly to our contribution.

Vote for us! you won’t be disappointed with the video and hopefully sound design and acting.

There is also a different movie I got to voice act for which also entered the contest and choose the different script. I did all the male roles for it to my knowledge and should be quite interesting to look at

until next time,

GxG.