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Hosted Projects - Standalone => Fate of the Galaxy => Topic started by: swashmebuckle on March 18, 2013, 06:04:52 am
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UPDATE: I'm pleased to announce that this first stage of the process is complete, and we are currently sending out scripts to the actors who have generously offered to lend us their voices. We've had a great response from both inside and outside the HLP community and I am now officially swamped with things to do!
We will very probably still need more help in this area going forward, but from now on I'll be posting the lines here as we need them rather than asking anyone to do an entire pilot persona script right off the bat. Please don't hesitate to contact us at fotgvoices [AT] googlemail.com if you were interested in helping out but missed the transport on the first go round :)
Original Post (don't record these lines):
Fate of the Galaxy has reached the stage of development where we need voice acting for our pilot personas! These are the automatically triggered lines that wingmen deliver in the heat of battle or when the player issues orders.
If you are interested in helping us out with your voice, please record these lines:
• All Clear - "We're all clear."
• Arrive Enemy - "Enemies on scope."
• Attack My Target - "Copy, engaging target."
• Backup - "Backup standing by."
• Red/Beta Arrived - "Red group, standing by." / "Beta wing on station."
• Check your six - "You've got one on your tail!"
• Death - "Aaaaaaaah!"
• Gold/Delta Arrived - "Gold group, standing by." / "Delta wing on station."
• Depart - "Acknowledged. I'm heading home."
• Disable My Target - "Targeting engines only."
• Disarm My Target - "Target acquired, disarming."
• Engage Enemy - "I'm going in."
• Gray/Epsilon Arrived - "Gray group, standing by." / "Epsilon wing on station."
• Green/Gamma Arrived - "Green group, standing by." / "Gamma wing on station."
• Help - "I can't shake him!"
• Ignore My Target - "All yours."
• No - "Negative."
• No Target - "My scope's clear."
• Friendly Fire - "Watch your aim!"
• Player Dead - "Pilot down!"
• Praise Player Kill - "Good shot!"
• Praise Own Kill - "I got him!"
• Praise Player Getting Multiple Kills - "The Force is with you!"
• Rearm - "Secondary banks depleted."
• Need Repair - "I've taken heavy damage!"
• Stray/AWOL/Desertion Warning - "You're headed the wrong way."
• Traitor - "Traitor!"
• Yes - "I copy."
Feel free to ad lib lines that could be used in place of these as well. If the team decides to use your voice, you will be contacted to record some alternate takes so that all of the pilots have a healthy number of unique messages. Please do record both the Rebel (colors) and Imperial (Greek letters) versions of the arrival lines so that we can use your voice for either side.
The team reserves the right to use any voice acting samples sent to us (with credit) in any way we see fit for the game. This is mostly important in case we can't contact someone who provided samples but want to use them in the game anyway.
Make sure that any voice acting you send to us is as clear as possible. Each of the lines should be in a separate 16bit 44khz stereo wav file. The entire set should then be archived (preferably rar or 7zip) before emailing them to fotgvoices [AT] googlemail.com. Please do not send mp3 files as the game doesn't recognize this format.
A big thanks to Karajorma for letting us rip this post off from the one he made on the Diaspora forum. Good luck everyone!
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I'll give it a go! maybe not much progress in the modeling side, but I do know a bit of acting
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Ohhh. I've done this for the SW gaming club I'm in, before, and they took some of my stuff. I'm game, lemme see what I can do when I get the chance.
(Actually looking forward to seeing this done, we might end up playing it. The original games are all pretty much dying out.)
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Well, just sent mine in, will be curious to see what you guys think, sorry if I need to tweak my mic settings a bit, but dont think it was too bad. Hopefully we will see a large flurry of activity thanks to these auditions
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Can we affect a really cheesy faux-British accent for the Imperial versions? :D
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Can we affect a really cheesy faux-British accent for the Imperial versions? :D
well, unless you got a voice modulator, I dont think I could pull it off, I have a mid-west american accent.... I might be able to pirate though, Yarg
JK
not sure what I could do with my voice though. I mean I am not entirely sure entirely what I sound like
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http://www.wikihow.com/Speak-in-a-British-Accent
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But, I just realized something, why dont we get actual british modders to voice the imperials, it would proably sound better than anything I could pull off, and it would be authentic!
Say we got any Scotts around here? now that could be interesting if we had someone who spoke with scottich broque, that would be amusing in combat XD.
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Unless you have significant voice acting experience we'd prefer that you just use your natural speaking voice for all the lines. We aren't going to enforce any sort of "Imperials are British, Rebels are Americans" rule as both sorts of accents are present on both sides in the movies. All accents and voice types are welcome :)
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This is something I'd like to try. Been wondering for a quite a while if dialogue was something that was going to be implemented in FotG.
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Hi everyone,
I just happened to stumble across this post when I was checking on the latest progress for the conversion (really looking forward to it!!).
Anyway, I saw some of the posts mentioning Faux-British or even Scotts accents and I wondered if anyone had already helped out in this regard?
If not I would like a bash - being English by birth but having lived in Scotland for most of my life I could provide several different version of English ot Socttish accents, as well as Irish, Welsh, American, Australian, South African....
This list goes on.....
So if you would like some of the quotes in a specific accent just let me know!!!
I might just record a few when I get home to see what they sound like anyway....
Cheers!!
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So far we've gotten all North American accents, so yeah, we'd love to have some submissions from further afield!
If you have prior voice acting experience and are comfortable with performing in a different accent, take a listen to the speech patterns of some of the original trilogy actors for cues on how to nail the "stage actor in 50's b-movie" feel. James Earl Jones has the American side of it down, while Peter Cushing (Tarkin) leans more towards RP. Alec Guinness falls in between them. I'm not saying you should try to speak with the sort of gravitas they are known for, just that they illustrate styles that people associate with SW which are not necessarily any specific real-world accent.
Again though, for anyone who doesn't have prior acting and voice acting experience, I strongly recommend using your native accent and concentrating on the acting itself :) Keep those submissions coming!
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Are you still looking for people to do voice recording?
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Are you still looking for people to do voice recording?
Yes, absolutely.
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I can pitch in. I'm Australian, but I can do a bunch of different accents.
Downside? My voice is distinctive. REALLY distinctive.
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Distinctive voices are great for VA; the player shouldn't have to read anything to know who is talking to them. Looking forward to hearing from you :)
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Distinctive voices are great for VA; the player shouldn't have to read anything to know who is talking to them. Looking forward to hearing from you :)
Got a Teamspeak or something? We can chat it out and I can make some sounds and voices and see if they're what you're looking for.
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I'm sure your normal speaking voice will be fine, but if you'd like to make multiple recordings of the same line to try out different things, I'll be happy to provide feedback! I like to hear recorded lines so I can play them repeatedly alongside the other submissions and address any technical issues as early as possible, but feel free to drop by our IRC channel if you'd like to chat.
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It's a shame I don't have the time for more VA. I'm pretty much a permanent fixture in Essex living with my woman and three collie dogs.
I've always regretted not finishing Fortune Hunters, and I would LOVE to be an Imp Lice.
EXPERIENCE
Earth-brakiri war
BP directors cut
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We'd love to get your voice, Dekker. I've heard your work in BP so there's no need for you to submit the generic lines above unless you want to. It would help with the organization side of things if you sent an email to the above address saying what you're available for (just pilot persona, just mission lines, pilot persona +2-3 lines, etc.). That way we can send you your full script in one go once the auditions are done and parts sorted out. Cheers!
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Welp, sent a through lines through to check out. Shame I rarely have an empty house so I can go bombastic and loud. I sound crappy when I'm quiet.
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I was working on one, but then my voice went sideways because of allergy stuff. Obviously can't work on that for now, but I went ahead and did one with my messed up voice just for the heck of it. Maybe y'all will get some use out of it until I can do my real one.
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Reply sent!
General update: We've received good submissions over the past month, but we could still use a few more pilot persona contributors. If anyone reading this has been thinking about submitting but hasn't gotten around to it for whatever reason, well, I think Homer Simpson said it best. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0fGFateuU)
Stop thinking and start doing! :D
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Hey guys,
I've done some recordings for you (not sure how good they are - I'll let the experts decide).
I'm just trying to find an app for converting the sound files into the required format. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Cheers
Duncan
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Audacity? Should just be able to open files with it and save as another type if I recall. Not sure if it can do batch converting though, which if you have a lot of samples would be nice.
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I'd go with Audacity, and yeah, it can even do batch conversions (File->Edit Chains... and so on).
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What format did you record them in? AIFF is pretty much the same thing as WAV and is also perfectly acceptable.
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Hi guys,
Thanks for the tip on Audacity - it worked like a charm.
The files were originally recorded in WMA format so an extra library for Audacity and it converted them to WAVs.
Anyway I have now sent 3 emails (each with a zip file) to the email address for you to have a laugh at!!
Hope some of them may be useful - in truth it was my first go at voice acting and with a fairly naff microphone as well...........
Thanks again for the help!!
Cheers
Duncan
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Are you able to adjust the bit rate on your end? I recorded all the lines, but I'm not sure how to change the bit rate, or even what the bit rate is on my recordings.
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Yeah, we can dither down from a higher sample rate or bit depth no problem. Sample rates lower than 44.1k work fine as far as I can tell (the retail sound files are of lower quality), they just don't sound quite as nice. Now that I think of it, lower quality files are probably just fine for characters that only have radio dialog (as opposed to briefing stuff). So yeah, send 'em in! :)
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Just sent in my Han Solo submission. Everybody needs a scoundrel and his best buddy helping you in a space. This is great to see such awesome work going into this!
https://soundcloud.com/william-davis-10
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OP updated--this round of VA is closed! Awesome work to everyone who submitted! Watch this thread for further updates!
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I just want to point out I hate laryngitis. I've had it for ages. But I'm getting over it so I should have my recordings in soon-ish.
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Awesome, looking forward to it!
Update: If everyone who's signed up delivers on their assigned VA, we're gonna have an impressive array of pilot personas. Go team!
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:yes:
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K will give a go at a first attempt this week
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I can do some pretty interesting voices, including a perfect Smeagal. Unfortunately my mic is broken so I will have to wait until I can afford a new one.
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Heya, I joined the forum purely for this, I just sent in half a dozen samples of me doing my best Imperial Commander voice (I talk like that normally, just less arrogant) to the fotgvoice addy, so hopefully I can be useful.
Also, hiya.
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Reply sent!
I know I said this before, but we're gonna have a nice big bunch of pilot personas. Now to brush up on my wookie.
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Reply sent!
I know I said this before, but we're gonna have a nice big bunch of pilot personas. Now to brush up on my wookie.
RRRRRRAWWWAAGHARARAAGAAGAAAGAAAGHHHH.
In other news, I'll start recording mine once I'm finished on my... supah, seekret project...
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Can has script again? :nervous:
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Sent :)
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Are there still positions open for this?
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The majority of roles were cast from the initial crop of pilot persona applicants, but it's definitely not all done. We'll post the remaining roles in a second round push when we're a bit closer to release.
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Alright. I'll keep an eye on this one.
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Hi! I'm curious if you have any voice spots left? I'd love to voice an imp pilot if you have any left
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We'll be doing a final VA push in the near future, so stay tuned. A couple of the Imp personas that were cast in the first round haven't gotten their lines in, so there's a chance those roles will be included when the scripts are posted, but no guarantees :)
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A couple of the Imp personas that were cast in the first round haven't gotten their lines in, so there's a chance those roles will be included when the scripts are posted, but no guarantees :)
:banghead:
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You're not the only one, Dekker! Morale must be pretty low in the Imperial fighter corps (maybe they should install shields in their fighters) because fully half the pilots that signed up haven't yet submitted VA work. The Rebel scum have managed a better showing so far with only two MIA, but it's the Pirate/Neutral pilots that have really put us to shame with a perfect 6/6 (7/7 if we include our first Alien persona in that group).
Anyway, those rebels aren't going to shoot themselves down. Maybe we should take a more Imperial attitude to this business: Get those lines in before the end of the month or we're putting the roles up for grabs! And uh, you'll be thrown into the sarlacc pit of shame. With Jar Jar.
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Could you re re re re send my script :nervous:
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I make a good Imp! (or so I'm told, in picture.. with my mouth shut... oh.)
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Could you re re re re send my script :nervous:
Show us how it's done, sir. :D
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I make a good Imp! (or so I'm told, in picture.. with my mouth shut... oh.)
Do or do not etc.....
Specifically..........DO!
Do EET!!!
SEND LINES.
Plox :3
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DUDE
send me lines too
i wanna be immortalized 'n ****
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Dekker was already cast back last year during the pilot persona call, but we'll be doing an open casting late this month or possibly early June once I've got all the remaining scripts assembled so stay on target!
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Stay on target
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Stay on target
WE'RE TOO CLOSE!
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Stay on target
WE'RE TOO CLOSE!
Stay on target!