Soylent green is made from Draenei!
Allo allo, so its been awhile since last post, sue me… Been busy with the voice acting for Unbroken and several other projects. I’ve also been putting together a small tutorial for the sound design of Acolyte, the biggest problem I’ve come across is trying to explain the programs and how to explain them without spending hours on end, elaborating on functions and mechanics that might not be as interesting as the actual design in its completion. Therefore, I’ve decided not to post a tutorial for it. I am actually going to wait until I do it for Unbroken. The reason for it is because I be doing both the sound design AND mixing. Which means that I will level the music, voice and sound design to where they belong.
Also, if you are a surround-guy\girl then rejoice, for I will be putting it in surround. That means that voices are where they belong as well as other ongoing sounds. Music will not deafen the soundscape as they always do in machinimas, sound elements will not destroy your speakers and voices will actually be heard and understood.
I have though posted two videos of the acolyte sound design, there is no music, no subtitles and no voices saying any lines. This is also the original sound design before Johan added some sounds in the final movie of acolyte. I only kept the parts I designed. Keep in mind that Youtube movies are very treble which means that sounds might seem sharp at times.
Here are the links:
In Other News:
Long back in the days, there was a guy who I auditioned for, as a hovering-nagging-robot. I didn’t realize that it was released awhile ago until I found it. This is a flash movie, my voice is low in volume for some reason too so keep your volume up.
You can watch it HERE
Farinar came with a sad news about his movie, after many complications with his computer, he gave up doing his machinima. He is now working on a different one, hopefully I will voice act in it :). But it is sad to see that it came down to this. Was looking forward to seeing it. Oh well, good luck dude. And visit his blog and woot him forward.
Khandy is (as I mentioned earlier) still working on the second episode of the order. I am doing a third voice and it is for a guy that reminds me of Moroes, so I based my voice of him. I do realize that he is slightly more insane and less epic loot drop; but I still find him to be close to Moroes as it could be. Not sure if Khandy intended that or not, but fun was it nonetheless. Personally, I can’t wait. I will post some screens and stuff when Khandy gets to it. Until then, go to her blog and “harass” her (or her other VO’s)forward.
Caruu’s Corner
Recently, I’ve been voicing my ass off for Unbroken. There are over 100 lines for the main character alone and I still ain’t done yet with narrowing all the lines down into individual files. So far, there are 286 files total. These are takes of the lines. Like take 1 and take 2. Also, I am only on line 52 on scene four when I am writing this!
If that was not enough, I am also voicing 6 other characters in the movie. So far, the guards are my favorite sub-characters. They are funny and you are going to laugh your head off with them. The thing that will be noted is accents, draenei got Russian-Yugoslavian accents, the reason for Nobundo not having that accent is cos he got so many lines, and it is very disturbing to listen to someone with that accent for so long. If that wasn’t contradicting the idea enough, it is also funny which is bad because the machinima is aiming to be dramatic and sad. So doing the voice for him, it was an easy choice to say americanish. But I get to do the accents for the guards so they will be genuine. It is been long since I played a main character in a machinima, so it’s very nice to be given the opportunity to do so.
Johan gave me the green light for go instead of the bird for no, to show you all the characters I am voicing: Here are they are in folder format, oh and click the image to get a bigger view:
Before I take my leave for this time, I wanna share with you all, that I’ve recently sent an audition for Smaug to New line, for their upcoming The hobbit movie. Thanks to Johan for the heads up. Anyway, until next time kids. Take care.
GxG