Voice Over Video Sunday

Two video game related VOVS in a row?! I know. I love it too. This week Gametrailers.com brings us an interview with Michael Ironside, in the booth recording Sam Fisher. The Splinter Cell games, and undoubtedly Ironside’s performances, easily are my favorite character acting in any game to date. I’m sure that man’s 30+ years of acting may have had some help in the matter as well.

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Voice Over Video Sunday

This being Comic Con weekend I was looking for a related voice over clip, but then I stumbled upon this interview that Charles Martinet gave with CVG and just had to post it right away. If the name doesn’t sounds that familiar to you then hopefully the voice will as Charles has been the voice of Nintendo’s Mario since Super Mario 64.

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Voice Over Video Sunday

I know I’m super late to the party on this one but I just had to get this video into the archives. Back in 1997 a short film was made for the 26th Annual Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards where the top five movie trailer voice over artists all cram into a limo and head off to the shows. First in is Don LaFontaine, then comes John Leader, Nick Tate, Mark Elliot and finally Al Chalk.

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A mosaic of un-voice-healthy foods.

We all have certain routines that we go through to warm up our voices before any recording session. Some good and some that maybe aren’t that healthy. Something that we should all be paying close attention to are the foods that we are putting into bodies before we go into a session. What foods should we not eat before performing?

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Another source of knowledge and income.

Voice over, as a job, is a freelance business. The voice artist must market themselves, actively hunt down work and constantly improve their craft. Now that may seem like a lot of work, but it does offer something that most other jobs don’t, and it can be found right in the first word; voice artists are free.

AUDIOTUTS is the latest site in Eden’s suite of TUT sites which offer great advice and tutorials on a number of topics for the freelancer. From their Photoshop and web design tutorial sites to FreelanceSwitch, their community site dedicated to the freelance business, I’ve been a big fan of Eden’s offerings for some time now.

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Chaos Wars for the PS2

Some people are still under the impression that it’s easy to do the voice acting for a video game. You just read some dialog and head home and call it an early day. One of these people seems to be the President and CEO of O~3 Entertainment, Chris Jelinek.

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Web 2.0 Gloss Spilled All Over It

There are a lot of changes going on here at your friendly neighborhood voice over site recently, and I can tell you that a lot more are coming. For right now though, we’ve just switched to a complete redesign, but it’s no where near finished. Many minor changes will be popping up so keep yours eyes opened.

Some elements may just not look correct right now, but I’ll be fixing and cleaning up all the older posts soon.

OH! And I know it’s already June now but I forgot to mention that there is a nice write-up of VoiceOverture.net in the May issue of Julie Williams’ Voice Over Insider magazine.

You can check it out the May issue here, but just be warned that the link takes you to a .PDF. Slower connections beware!

Everyone who has every been.

The contract negotiations are over and the cast of The Simpson’s are ready to get back to work. Their pockets may be a little heavier than before, but maybe not as heavy as they were hoping for.

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God of War 2 by SCEA

Greg deBeer, the Dialog Manager for Sony Computer Entertainment of America Foster City, sat down with Gamasutra and gave a very candid interview on the state of dialog and voice over’s in the video game industry. In this six page interview deBeer’s speaks of finding that original voice for a game, casting actors for their range, and most interestingly his thoughts on celebrities doing voice over for video games.

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Image Credit: Michael Nagle for The New York Times

Michael Hollick has voiced the most well-known character in the year’s biggest blockbuster game when he took on the role of Niko Bellic in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 4. Now Michael was paid for his work and at a little over union scale he took home roughly $100,000. Not nearly as much as a famous-faced screen actor would have netted for a large role such as this, and Mr. Hollick will most likely never see another dime for his work. No residuals or royalties will come his way at all even after his voice will be heard by millions in online campaign and television commercials due to the current structure between union contracts and the game developers and publishers themselves.

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