Not Just Voiceover

Interesting take on the use of voiceovers in massively multiplayer online games. I believe that since these are games players will invest years of their lives into, developers should concentrate on what the players will be spending the majority of their time doing. Unfortunately, that will not be listening to well-trained actors read dialogue. They [...]

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The first trailer for the upcoming documentary on the voices behind the scenes has been released. Looking forward to it!

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Tom Kane can do a good evil robot. He gets a lot of computer voices thrown his way. Stanley Kubrick even picked him to be the new HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey just before Kubrick died. Kane’s also done a ton of animation voicings, including Professor Utonium in “The Powerpuff Girls” and Monkey [...]

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LINK Check out a recent Toonzone interview with Matthew Wolf on his VO work on the recently released Thor: Tlaes of Asgard. excerpt: TZN/MAA: How did you get into voice acting in particular? MATTHEW WOLF: Alongside of my work as an actor, I was doing some work producing TV trailers, and sometimes I did the [...]

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LINK Fans new and returning will now embark on an epic adventure, where the race for the crown is only the beginning of your spectacular journey. Five decades have passed since the events of Fable II, and Albion has matured into an industrial revolution, but the fate of the kingdom is at peril. In Fable [...]

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Very interesting article in Backstage about how tax incentives are creating new markets for voiceover, particularly in the video game field. Thirteen states have introduced incentives to lure game developers away from the huge California market. Excerpts: According to the Entertainment Software Association, the video game industry generated nearly $19 billion in U.S. revenue in [...]

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