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Franchescanado posted:I used to be friends with this guy (during my teenage years, online friend) who wanted to do voice acting. He's now known as ProZD on YouTube and is professional voice actor Sungwon Cho. It's achievable! I'm going to start mailing cassettes of me doing voices to random animation companies.
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I should do stuff, but eh. I have a lot of impression work built up on my computer. I read one of those Zim comics once, trying to do every character's voice. But like, what do I do with that? I dunno! I tried reading that Voice Acting thread, but it's not much in the way of tips but more of "here's stuff I did". Which is fine. And that long intro OP has that really lovely "Oh you think just because you can do a voice, you can be a voice actor? NOPE! WRONG! SUCK MY DICK BITCH!!!"
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Jun 8, 2017 00:17
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm going to start mailing cassettes of me doing voices to random animation companies. Better start paying your SAG dues then because anything unsolicited involving actors (even voice actors) goes straight in the trash.
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Jun 8, 2017 00:23
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I feel bad for people that want to get into voice acting because from what I can tell it's even harder to get into than normal acting and if you make it you won't get any where near a comparable amount of respect and money.
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Jun 8, 2017 00:27
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How to make it big in voice acting: 1. Become rich and famous as a normal actor. 2. Get hired to voice like a muskrat, or a poop or something.
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Jun 8, 2017 00:29
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MacheteZombie posted:I'm going to start mailing cassettes of me doing voices to random animation companies. CelticPredator posted:I should do stuff, but eh. I have a lot of impression work built up on my computer. I read one of those Zim comics once, trying to do every character's voice. But like, what do I do with that? I dunno! I did voices for radio shows and animations that the mutual group made. It's all about building a portfolio of the different voices you can do, examples of range, etc. Personally, I find the voicework exhausting, since I have a limited range, and stuck to writing, concept art and animation. Now that Flash is pretty much dead, I don't know how to animate anymore.  Here's a video SungWon made that's become huge (it popped up on my Facebook yesterday). He does a lot of videogame work now, which is his dream job.
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Jun 8, 2017 00:30
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I really wanted to do a Fan Fic reading thing, but that's been done a billion times. I used to do streams of it, and it was a blast. It was a lot of fun when I had to try and learn how to do do a character's voice in the span of a few minutes.
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Jun 8, 2017 00:33
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FreudianSlippers posted:How to make it big in voice acting: The thing is there are people that get lots of work only as voice actors but once the industry have found a guy that is good for a certain sound, they will hire them every time they need that sound. Are you a black woman? Oh well, Cree Summers exists and they'd rather hire her. Like people complain someone like Tress Macneille doesn't have range but she actually has tons of range it's just a) she's always asked to do the same few things b) she was the voice of like every female cartoon character in the 80s so you're just sort of used to everything she's got
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Jun 8, 2017 00:37
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Also people seem to last pretty long. Frank Welker is 71 and he's been doing the voice of Fred in Scooby Doo in literally every version since the original in 1969. That and about a 100 different other characters.
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Jun 8, 2017 00:50
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I like that he does Nibbler on Futurama - both just making incomprehensible animal noises and his super serious English voice.
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Jun 8, 2017 00:57
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Apes-Ma posted:Nic Cage is gonna star in Panos Cosmatos' new film! I'm not even sure what the best part of this sentence is. therattle posted:I am a strong believer in the waiter test: if someone is rude to waiters they are a bad person, even if they are nice to you. I occasionally complain about something, but always very politely. I don't se what's so hard about treating other people like humans. The other day I offered the street sweeper outside our house a drink because it was hot; he said it was the second time in four years that anyone had done that. In the summer my family always gives the garbage men (I believe you'd called them "bin men") drinks and they always react like we're the only ones who acknowledge that they are in fact, people. glam rock hamhock posted:The thing I wonder is why all the rock radio stations around me play Cumbersome by Seven Mary Three so much. Like where is the demand for that song even coming from? Gen-Xers who peaked in high school? I wouldn't actually mind this kind of thing, but most people are going to think you're a total loving weirdo. And I'm saying this as someone who was once standing in a store gleefully making fart sounds with my mouth for at least 30 seconds before I realized that someone was standing near me and that's not a thing people do in public. FreudianSlippers posted:Also people seem to last pretty long. Frank Welker is 71 and he's been doing the voice of Fred in Scooby Doo in literally every version since the original in 1969. That and about a 100 different other characters. Pretty much every animal, non-human, or animal-like sound in a cartoon since the 70s is Frank Welker. It's mind blowing how many shows he's appeared in.
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Jun 8, 2017 01:02
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Being a working voice actors is probably a bit like being a character actor in that you probably don't get payed much per job, comparatively speaking, but the trickle of jobs is much steadier than for the stars so you do pretty well for yourself.
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Jun 8, 2017 01:16
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The best thing about rude customers is that it gives you a chance to be the hero. On many occasions when I was in retail, as soon as I was (finally) finished with the rear end in a top hat of the day, the next customer went out of their way to be polite and nice to me just to spite the rear end in a top hat. I'd always do a little something extra for them. Even better when it was a customer where I/we made a mistake and they were 110% chill about it. I actually had someone where I accidentally shorted their order, then quickly remedied it. He gave me a tip and thanked me for taking care of it quickly.
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Jun 8, 2017 01:33
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FreudianSlippers posted:How to make it big in voice acting: You know the poop emoji in the Emoji movie is being played by Sir Patrick Stewart, don't you?
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Jun 8, 2017 01:33
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I just finished the third episode of Dark Archie and I love it so much. "Slut shaming. That's what it's called when sluts get shamed."
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Jun 8, 2017 01:37
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I'm obligated to see Wonder Woman for a friend's birthday, is there anything interesting about it whatsoever? I am debating having a nap while it's going. Also any good potluck suggestions?
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Jun 8, 2017 01:38
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I Before E posted:I just finished the third episode of Dark Archie and I love it so much. wait until the party episode
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Jun 8, 2017 01:38
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Skwirl posted:You know the poop emoji in the Emoji movie is being played by Sir Patrick Stewart, don't you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk
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Jun 8, 2017 01:38
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married but discreet posted:I'm obligated to see Wonder Woman for a friend's birthday, is there anything interesting about it whatsoever? I am debating having a nap while it's going. I've only heard positive things about it, and that it includes some of the best moments in Cape movies yet. I plan on seeing it this weekend.
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Jun 8, 2017 01:41
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so one of the other counter protests for saturday has moved to another location across the city because the best way to protest is to not confront the problem you FUCKERS
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Jun 8, 2017 01:42
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Is the Mothman Prophecies, the book, any good? As a gift for a friend of mine who is pretty deep into paranormal/occult/conspiracy stuff. I already got a delightful little book called Alien Abduction Surival Guide which is full of crude illustrations of space aliens but I couldn't choose between Mothman and a book called "Exopolitics: The Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence". Which sounds fun but I think two alien books might be a bit too much. I´m also getting him a book about ghosts, curses and hauntings that claims the Titanic was sunk by a mummy's curse and has a, probably totally unlicensed, still of Vincent Price in skeletal face from Madhouse on the cover.
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Jun 8, 2017 02:57
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:pssst the mistake was probably not the delivery guy's fault, also shut the gently caress up The pizza turned into a calzone! Twice! married but discreet posted:Also any good potluck suggestions? Grape jelly + bbq sauce + meat balls + crockpot.
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Jun 8, 2017 03:08
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Tenzarin posted:The pizza turned into a calzone! Twice! Maybe the road was just really poorly maintained and the bumpy driving made the pizza fold itself mid transit.
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Jun 8, 2017 03:10
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I'm lucky I don't live in California.
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Jun 8, 2017 03:24
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FreudianSlippers posted:Is the Mothman Prophecies, the book, any good? I've only thumbed through it not read it in its entirety but yeah it's fun. Re: voice acting, probably won't happen but I'd love to read audiobooks. I thought about doing the first chapter of The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum once just for fun, maybe I'll give it a try this weekend.
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Jun 8, 2017 03:27
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I've only thumbed through it not read it in its entirety but yeah it's fun. I mean, I'd gladly listen to this. (I haven't read or listened to the book.) I used to do short story readings with my friends. We'd drink and/or smoke weed and I'd read 2 or 3 short stories to them and we'd talk about the themes and ideas in between each one. I loved it, more for the reactions and the interpretations than me getting to read out loud, but it's a great way to learn the flow of prose. edit: FreudianSlippers posted:Is the Mothman Prophecies, the book, any good? Not horror or overtly paranormal, but has your friend read Pynchon? He's just phenomenal at capturing the paranoia and overwhelming unknown of conspiracies, while being a great writer, whether he wants to be funny, disturbing, romantic, etc. Most of his books have paranormal subplots, like Gravity's Rainbow (WW2 occultism) or Inherent Vice (astrological implications is a reoccurring motif, there's a whole story about trying to score weed from a ghost via Ouija Board, etc.), but they aren't the main focus. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/chrishallbeck/status/560478957959933953?lang=en
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Jun 8, 2017 03:37
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Librivox is a site/organization that hosts audiobooks of public domain works done by volunteers. I recently listened to a collaborative audiobook version The Island of Dr Moreau, which had a different reader for each chapter. Quality varied wildly. There are clearly no standards at all. So that would be an easy place to start.
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Snak posted:Librivox is a site/organization that hosts audiobooks of public domain works done by volunteers. I recently listened to a collaborative audiobook version The Island of Dr Moreau, which had a different reader for each chapter. Quality varied wildly. There are clearly no standards at all. Did you get my PM earlier?
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Snak posted:Librivox is a site/organization that hosts audiobooks of public domain works done by volunteers. I recently listened to a collaborative audiobook version The Island of Dr Moreau, which had a different reader for each chapter. Quality varied wildly. There are clearly no standards at all. That's rad. I was about to say I dunno how the legal aspect would play for a The Girl Next Door, otherwise I could release it as a bonus episode of my podcast or something. I guess I could do an H.P. Lovecraft story (one without all the uh racial slurs preferably) Edit: oooo there's a bunch of Ambrose Bierce stuff on librivox, that would be cool. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Jun 8, 2017 03:43
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Franchescanado posted:Did you get my PM earlier? I think I need to rework how a reference my sources, which has the upside of giving me a little more to work with I think I'm like 150 words short of the target 1200 words, so... Edit: ^ yeah, I'm not really sure what kind of licensing you have to do for audiobooks that aren't public domain. But I guess in theory, if you wanted to do a profession audiobook, aka have someone hire you to do it, having portfolio of "open source" ones would be pretty solid. Snak fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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Jun 8, 2017 03:44
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:so one of the other counter protests for saturday has moved to another location across the city Please don't post an anonymous PO box where people could ship knives and body armor.
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Jun 8, 2017 03:47
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Saw Alien Covenant one more time. Dang this movie gets better. I borderline love it, had they not made the Xeno stuff so weak overall.
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Snak posted:Yes, I did! Thank you! Today kicked my rear end, so I'm just gonna drink for a few hours and go to bed, but your feedback looks great! No problem bud, just wanted to make sure you could see the comments. Have a drink for me, enjoy yourself.
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Jun 8, 2017 03:52
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^ will do  Oh man, critics are saying that "The Mummy is the worst Tom Cruise movie ever".
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Jun 8, 2017 03:54
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Snak posted:^ will do The Mummy does look pretty bad but despite generally loving Tony Scott I still think Top Gun totally sucks
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Jun 8, 2017 03:57
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I couldn't get into Top Gun. my buddies all made fun of it when we watched it in High School. I don't get it.
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Jun 8, 2017 04:02
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It's artistically superficial, but I kinda want The Mummy to do well if for no reason than I'd like to see Sofia Boutella's star rise.
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Top Gun's a weird movie. It's a genre that has been completely obviated by CGI. It's a barebones drama with some charismatic characters, but it's all kind of just hung on the pillar of military hardware porn. And, of course, due to needing the cooperation of the US Navy, it's got no teeth of any kind.
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Atomic Blond will probably do that more. She'll probably shoot someone in the head in that one. Also that mummy design is really bad. I wish they'd just make her look undead and decaying all the time. That's the best part of the Sommers films.
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