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Man, the only advice I was given was 'If you don't want scraps, trying not living in a place 3000km away from a continent' for getting into video game stuff.
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It's not totally VO related but I'm playing two parts in a community theater Avenue Q. It's the first thing I've done as far as voice for public consumption so I'm all excited.WarpedNaba posted:Man, the only advice I was given was 'If you don't want scraps, trying not living in a place 3000km away from a continent' for getting into video game stuff. Gonna second that so far I've mostly heard you have to be close to the studios to get anything reliably, or perhaps at all. But then I'm currently in a full time job so I'm probably not in the right place to pursue it that much.
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Holy gently caress, Avenue Q? Wicked jell, buddy, I saw the official act in Auckland and it kicked enormous rear end. Pity they'll never come back. Seconded on the full-time job angle, although it does provide me with the means to spring gifts on the missus/family every now and again.
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I really should read this thread more. Missed both sunday schools. Also, should I re-record my Summerset Hills Demo?
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Titling my next email to my email list something like "How I walked in off the street for a tour at the biggest video game audio production facility in the city" because I just did and it was the best experience I've had so far this week. This conference experience has been...magical so far.WarpedNaba posted:Man, the only advice I was given was 'If you don't want scraps, trying not living in a place 3000km away from a continent' for getting into video game stuff. Aaaaargh this is so frustrating!! You can get your start in voice acting from *literally* anywhere with the right approach. People need to stop giving bad advice. And yeah, I try to be pretty diplomatic, but that is flat out bad advice. I understand it, but it's bad advice. Okay, think about it: If you're just getting into video game VO (or VO in general), you're not going to start out by working with AAA developers or major ad agencies. Heck, I'm about ten years into my VO career and I'm just getting there now. You WILL start out working with those a few steps earlier in their careers--indie developers, small businesses, students, etc. And those folks are EV-ERY-WHERE. I recorded my first video game voiceover job in South Korea--with a client in Australia, with whom I connected online. You don't have to be in NYC or LA or SF or even the US to get started in this. Blarhagrhagrh that's probably my misconception pet peeve (and why I taught that online class recently). I could write a book on this. I'm seriously thinking about it, actually. So many people just assume they can't work in games because they don't live wherever it is they think they need to live and it's just. not. true. People need to be empowered with the right information and this isn't really where my focus is heading with my performance career really taking flight right now but dammit, SOMEONE needs to get some good information out there. For now, it's a blog since I have plenty to soapbox about and, well, that's what blogs are for, isn't it? dscruffy1 posted:It's not totally VO related but I'm playing two parts in a community theater Avenue Q. It's the first thing I've done as far as voice for public consumption so I'm all excited. Congrats!! Non-VO acting work is totally VO-related as far as I'm concerned. It's all acting, after all!! Some of the finest voice actors have their backgrounds in theatre. I come from a musical theatre background myself. Very exciting! Where do you live/where will you be performing so anyone who may be local can see it? 
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I'm active duty military in Ramstein, Germany. So if anyone is in the Kaiserslautern area, come see it at the end of May/start of June 
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Hi this happened today (That's Dee Bradley Baker, he voices everything and is amazing, ahjegjwghfkwaeglwejghkj)
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Well, I'm a dope. I live in the bay area and I just missed out. Superrrb.
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Mar 17, 2016 21:00
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First time I've used my Yeti since Christmas Summerset Hills Audition
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blinkeve1826 posted:I MET MOCKINGQUANTUM I met MockingQuantum out here at GDC and it was cool and good We totally did, and it totally was. We're besties now.
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Huh. Lords of Xulima's getting a sequel. Don't suppose they're reprising roles?
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WarpedNaba posted:Huh. Lords of Xulima's getting a sequel. Don't suppose they're reprising roles? I'll be in touch if/when it's time. I assume they'll be doing another large crowdfunding campaign first.
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Oh. I was more speculating than actually asking, but that answers it! Cheers, Joe.
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WarpedNaba posted:Oh. I was more speculating than actually asking, but that answers it! Indie VO usually only happens when: 1. 90% of the game is already completed 2. There's anything left in the budget If I have roles to fill (for any project), I usually contact proven talent from here first.
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Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure, a game that I'm handling voice casting for (and had the pleasure of hiring BlinkEve & JossiRossi to voice a couple parts) just launched their KickStarter, check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/777841902/gibbous-a-cthulhu-adventure EDIT: Oh and Greenlight: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=656449513 The Joe Man fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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The Joe Man posted:Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure, a game that I'm handling voice casting for (and had the pleasure of hiring BlinkEve & JossiRossi to voice a couple parts) just launched their KickStarter, check it out: The trailer sounds awesome!! This came out really well Congrats!!Sorry for the delayed reply, I've been in LA these past few days literally living in a dream come true, working on my first major feature film--a scene with Matt Damon in Alexander Payne's next film, Downsizing. nbd. jk totally a big deal you guys totally know an almost super-famous person 
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Woooooo!!!! That's awesome, blinkeve! Hahah I'm volunteering with my local community theater group and running sound for their play. I composed a short piece of electronic music for them and created a pre-show announcement voiceover. It makes me chuckle every time I fire it off before the show starts because I got to write the text myself. Boom, more voiceover work. For folks looking to get into voiceover work there are loads of things you can do to get practice. Go and help out at your local church, act as an MC for a charity auction or do anything else where you get to read text to people. If you can, story time at a library is fantastic.
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CuddleChunks posted:Woooooo!!!! That's awesome, blinkeve! Yesssssssss that's the way to do it!! Seriously! My first few commercial VO opportunities came about when someone in my VO class wrote, produced, and shopped around some commercials he wrote himself. I'm such a huge advocate of creating your own work. Not only that, but getting experience in other areas of the industry, even theatre, is great too. Running live sound for theatre must be really interesting! At different times for various productions in the theatre world, I produced, directed, assistant directed, cast, ran props, ran sound, ran the light board (possibly even my favorite? There was something so fun about running the board), ran the spotlight, and even stage managed. In the film/TV world, I've done some of the same (directed, produced, cast, PAed). CuddleChunks' suggestions are great ones! Just spend as much time in the world in which you want to be, or as close to it as you can, as you can. You will meet incredible people and learn a TON. "Even" community theatre. Community theatre actors can go on to be in movies with Matt Damon. 
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CuddleChunks posted:Woooooo!!!! That's awesome, blinkeve! Oooh. What are you using to run sound? Qlab?
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blinkeve1826 posted:Just spend as much time in the world in which you want to be, or as close to it as you can, as you can. You will meet incredible people and learn a TON. "Even" community theatre. Community theatre actors can go on to be in movies with Matt Damon. Grand Prize Winner posted:Oooh. What are you using to run sound? Qlab? Then again, I wouldn't have gotten experience cutting my own reel-to-reel tape and mixing down onto carts and other questionably useful skills in this digital world. 
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Hi I'm really new to the world of Voice Over and I was wondering if anyone could give me some critiques on my self produced demo? I made it more for practice than actually trying to get jobs. It's a commercial demo, because I figured I'd start in the genre that (at least appears to) have the most paid work before I branch out into things I really want to do like video game and animatioN VO. I don't know if posting it here is appropriate or if I should just PM people? Additionally I made it all on a flippin blue snowball, but Im upgrade to an XLR AT2020 so I can at least pretend to be professional. Also any info on the audiobunny site? I see a lot of reviews on it from when it was launched in 2012 and it looks to be not well received, but its been a few years so I dont know how its changed? Bread Set Jettison fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Apr 24, 2016 |
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Ebay screwed up my order, and sent me a replacement of "Voice Actor/Voice Over," but then the original package somehow arrived? So I have an extra copy, if anyone wants to purchase it?
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I'm on it, but I'm never home or right about to go to bed whenever I get emails from them about work so I usually miss it.
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New trailer I voiced just launched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNeQK-ZhSkg
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TheComicFiend posted:I'm on it, but I'm never home or right about to go to bed whenever I get emails from them about work so I usually miss it. Same. They haven't sent me poo poo and now suddenly send me things at 6am or midnight. I just got a notification for an audition that I could finally do but their lovely website wouldn't let me upload it for some reason even though I was the 2nd person to upload. Really considering just ignoring that site because it doesn't seem possible.
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The Voice Realms has been pretty good fwiw. Cheap for a p2p site and the pay is good. Havent had a ton of auditions posted though. Im basically gonna rock an account their and on Voices.com for now.The Joe Man posted:New trailer I voiced just launched: Congrats, sounds great.
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I was at a convention last year where I watched a voice actor panel and one of the panelists suggested looking for unpaid work to cut your teeth on at Voice Acting Club. Has anyone had any experience with this site?
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SwitchbladeKult posted:I was at a convention last year where I watched a voice actor panel and one of the panelists suggested looking for unpaid work to cut your teeth on at Voice Acting Club. Has anyone had any experience with this site? I've had some back-and-forth with a few people on VAC, but haven't landed anything there. I've gotten most of my unpaid character stuff on BTVA and CastingCallClub. A lot of it is folks (kids?) wanting to create their own fandub of something, and a smaller percentage of that is original scripts. The fandubs can go.. either way, I guess. That being said, I landed the role of "Jack" in this thing and I'm pretty happy with it: https://soundcloud.com/fablesradio/fables-radio-chapter-one-old-tales-revisited
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I kinda walked out on BTVA, I couldn't really find much stuff that was worth auditioning for. Got cast for over 50% of my roles, though, which buffed up my self confidence a little. Even did the fandub of the Suicide Squad movie.
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After you guys mentioned BTVA I decided to audition for a role on there and landed it! Thanks guys!
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Congrats! What'd you get?
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An abridged/fan redub of an anime called Sword Art Online. I'll be voicing the character Klein!
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WarpedNaba posted:I kinda walked out on BTVA, I couldn't really find much stuff that was worth auditioning for. Got cast for over 50% of my roles, though, which buffed up my self confidence a little. Even did the fandub of the Suicide Squad movie. fandub? Was it in a non-english language or was it some kind of rifftraxy parody type thing?
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Nope, straight up re-doing the voices of the movie. I had Black Spider and Alfred.
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Calling out a lurker in this very thread who took advantage of a recent opportunity I posted to my email list to snag his first (I think it's his first, anyway, but he's free to correct me) video game VO credit this weekend! Fun fact: He was the only one on a list I provided for developers participating in a game jam this weekend who hasn't yet trained/worked with me, but for a relative beginner his stuff was so impressive I had to include him. I'll let him post a bit about his experience if he wants but I just wanted to say I'm super proud of him for going for it 
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Oh hi it seems I was called out sorry for the late reply. Hi all I'm omegaflash4 I've been a voice actor and audio editor for four years now, but only started working at a professional capacity this year. I excel at male and female character acting and commercial work and enjoy lurking around the forums like a general creep. Thank you for your compliments and I thank you for the oppourtunity. ^-^
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Pleasure. I would thank you to keep the anime emoticons to a minimum. Otherwise, welcome abroad.
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