Updates

H'ok, well... Since I just made a giant post, I'll quickly update everyone so they know where I'm headed from here.

I have fully recorded Dr. Kleiner's lines and probably won't be recording Dr. Magnusson. Since there appears to be a large time delay between now and mod release, I plan to grab a picture of Dr. Kleiner and post the video in the next few days. When the mod is released, I'll probably record in-game footage and replace the current video with that.

Next works:

-Cave Johnson [Portal 2]
-Abraham Lincoln
-Call of Cthulhu
-Commercial Demo

and eventually:
-1985: Reclamation
-Redub of Video 2

Plus, at some point I'll be talking about My Immortal. I may also be helping a company begin a podcast (where I'd likely be the one recording).

Now, what's the time table on these things, why am I doing them, and where am I headed from there?

Time table for Cave Johnson is later today or early tomorrow (assuming I can actually match the voice well enough). I played around with a bunch of the lines and really enjoy them. It will likely be more of a tribute than any real acting, but y'know.

As for Lincoln, I need to find a reference voice that is piping and squeaky or a portrayal of him in film that I think does a good job with the voice. As soon as I've found that, I can work on the voice again and continue on my merry way. While it won't *really* be acting, I've chosen to do that particular voice work because it will involve heavy emotions and a lot of voice work without actual um... voice work. What I mean is it will involve a lot of intense work with my voice without crafting a new, weird voice (like Vegeta's or Gollum's). Basically, I'm doing it because it will be a challenge.

As I'm typing this, I'm reminded that I have yet to do a commercial demo and really need to get to that. I think I mentioned it briefly in another post, but commercials are probably my best shot of getting paying voice acting work before companies like Funimation and Pixar will even take me seriously. Therefore, although it isn't acting, it is in a sense because it's selling something I probably don't care about and will need to convince myself I care about so as to evoke and involve the buying habits of the mysterious customers out in the ether. So, time table for that one is pretty much as soon as I find some lines. My cousin gave me some, but I recall finding that the site was blocked or required some kind of authorization / account to see the script. Feh. So, soon.

Call of Cthulhu is sort of nowish and sort of on the back burner, as well. It's something I'd really enjoy doing, but it's not a super priority. It's going to require a lot of research, a lot of work, and some reaaaaally long recording sessions. As such, I will probably be holding off on that until I've finished some of the smaller, more important projects.

1985: Reclamation is the second mod I applied to and got serious interest from. The thing is, I haven't heard from the mod leader for a little while and it seems to be a pretty massive project. I'm not even sure how much of the game is coded, modeled, and rendered. As such, it could be quite a while before I actually receive any lines from him to be recorded. I'll be applying to mods in the mean time and doing other work until I get some kind of a script from him. Until then, all I can do is stay in contact, get better at voice acting, and improve the quality of my British, Irish, and Scottish accents.

Fiiiinally, we have the re-dub of the character demo I did. To be honest, I don't even want to watch it again right now. After the work I did on Dr. Kleiner (which I'm pretty proud of), I hardly even want to recognize what I did in that video. It needs to be redone and recorded until the voices are all more-or-less spot on in each line. I also want to add some actual acting, choices, and motivations into the line delivery that weren't there before. Just because something is a character demo doesn't mean there's no need for dynamic, exciting acting. There is. There really is and I dropped that ball in the first recording session. So, I do want to re-do that, but I think I need some temporal and acting distance from it before it gets re-recorded. Time table? Soon, but not yet.

Also: I wanted to mention that since I finally have a few videos up and lots of blog posts, I'll probably be slowing down on the updates as I take on bigger projects and look to applying for jobs again. When I start working again, it probably won't be in voice acting for a while so the lessons I learn related to that will be less frequently learned. As such, I plan to make a regular update schedule of either once a week or once a month depending on how much voice work I have and the lessons I can add up here.

Obviously, I'll post videos and demos as regularly as possible, but until this is a paying job it needs to be a hobby. Besides, how can y'all keep up with a post a day when I write walls of text?