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Hosted Projects - Standalone => Fate of the Galaxy => Topic started by: swashmebuckle on June 06, 2014, 12:49:52 am
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It's that time again!
FotG has most of its voice acting done, but we need your help to hammer out the few remaining roles. We had some trouble after the first call with actors signing up and not turing in their assigned lines, so instead of handing out roles individually, we're going to take a page from the Blue Planet VA Death March and post an open script. It might seem like we're just ripping off their great idea, but note that ours isn't a death march so much as a big triumphant fun march like the one at the end of A New Hope. Remember that that is a scene inspired by Nazi propaganda films where everyone is really happy and no one is dead. Except for all the people on the death star. Those guys are really dead.
How do I join in this super cool non-death march you ask? Just open up The Script (https://docs.google.com/document/d/13UCVq475YBOOsZ16aiCLqeR7rZFfGhVk1IcE98SCpTI/edit?usp=sharing), pick a role (or a bunch of roles!), record the lines as individual 44.1khz wav files at 16 bit, and label them with the text found to the left of each line. Then all you need to do is zip all of those files together and send them as an attachment to [email protected]
Afraid your voice isn't sexy enough for acting? You can be a squeaky-voiced alien pilot who speaks pig Esperanto. Already submitted a role back during the first call? The more the merrier, esteemed colleague (though we probably won't have duplicates on pilot personas). You want to contribute, but you mic isn't good enough? There are almost certainly cheapskates in the SW Galaxy with worse mics than you. Cats won't shut up and let you record? You are the legendary pirate ace Loba Bindooki, soaring into battle with baby womprats all over your cockpit (gross). Maybe not everyone will make the final cut, but everyone can march!
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 we want to use them in the game anyway. I personally reserve the right to describe how I envision our actors marching in this thread, so get those lines in quick if you want to be the person riding the bantha, because there's only one bantha.
May the force be with y'all!
EDIT: Don't forget to come hang out in our irc chatroom (http://widget.mibbit.com/?settings=63a0ced6b63be92610404dfc3cb4ceaa&server=irc.esper.net&channel=%23scp-swc) for laughs and acting direction (faster, more intense!). If you want to use your own client, we're on esper.net at #scp-swc
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Captain Jol Davin of the Krayt Pearl has been cast.
Get these roles while they're hot!
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Got an excellent multirole submission for two of the available pilot personas today. Only a couple basic-speaking personas left--keep those voices coming!
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*dusts himself off*
I was just wondering if I still had a spot in Fate of the Galaxy? I did an audition for Mr. Dietrich about a year ago and I remember him saying that he'll put my name down for your use.
Or would you prefer if I did a new audition?
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Hi Darkblade! Yes, you are most definitely in the game. You were one of our first voices cast, and I still sometimes play a couple of your lines for people recording live in my studio to demonstrate the appropriate level of intensity for the more urgent persona messages :)
I'd love to have a few non-persona lines for your character during the campaign missions he is present in, so watch your email in the next few days (I'm pretty busy atm but I will get them to you!). You can also record the one-liners in the open script (linked in the OP) if you are interested in maybe picking up a bit part or two on the side.
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Roger that, I'll put my teeth on some lines once I get home. Hopefully I'll be able to send 'em on Wednesday.
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We've had some excellent submissions over the past couple weeks, including our first explicitly non-human pilot! I've marked Viro Wan Rujadi as cast, and it'll take a pretty outstanding performance to displace the reigning Galenes Vorin.
We could use some more women's voices! The balance in our VA effort started off pretty good, but it has turned into a bit of a clone sausage fest of late.
Does anyone around here speak Swahili? I've heard that that's the language that Nien Nunb (Lando's copilot in RotJ) speaks. That could be completely wrong seeing as the only Swahili words I know are from the Lion King, but we would like to have a pilot voice that sounds like Nien Nunb!
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And before you ask, no, the Swahili-speaking pilot's death line is not allowed to be "HAKUNA MATATAAAAAAAA---"
Edit: According to wookiepedia, Nein Nunb actually speaks Haya and Kikuyu. Really any Bantu language would be pretty cool.
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Do the recordings get processed to sound like they are coming over a headset com? Didn't know how clean I should make them. How many more aliens you looking for? And do you want just generic females in addition to Gan's? My wife wants to give it a shot.
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Yes, processing will be handled on our end to make sure that we have similar radio effects from all the voices. Clean recordings at a consistent volume level (not individually normalized) are best.
For aliens, I'll take as many as we can get unique sounding languages or phonational mechanisms for. Definitely looking for maximum sonic diversity on that front (though unprocessed recordings are still best).
I would love to have women go for alien pilot personas in addition to trying out for the remaining uncast English speaking roles (Vorin and Gan). We could also definitely use more submissions for the one-line roles so that we don't end up with seven ships that all have the same voice :)
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A friend of mine said she'd like to do Vorin - asked to give her a week for completion.
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Awesome, keep those submission coming! We'll certainly still be up and running a week from now.
We just got a Shistavanen persona, bringing our alien total to three.
Who's got a John Wayne impersonation I can create a Long Snoot alien out of?
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I've missed my oppertunity here haven't I?
BAd organisation on my part :banghead:
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Your role did get recast, but there is a similar part in the open script (Moas Gan) that hasn't had any submissions yet (though Cobra has been eying it). Also don't forget the one-line roles!
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My friend finished the Vorin parts and sent them in.
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Un-normalized you say? Well sh...
I guess I'll make sure my wifey's lines are done right. Anyway, we shall double our efforts.
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Don't worry about the normalization, Tnadz, ya did good :)
We are getting real close here! Still need more people to knock out the one-line roles.
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All the large basic-speaking roles from the open script have now been cast!
Still looking for people to give us some one liners, and more aliens are always welcome.
What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.
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Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators in most respects.
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Do you play bocce?
Will also accept pétanque.
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Anything in mind for the aliens as far as voice type/register? Basic vs ...whatever language?
Ewok?
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Are you gonna make "Yub, yub!" a battle cry? :P
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Ewok might be getting a little too far into the silly squadron territory, but I'd like to have a Sullustan (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sullustese) and some Huttese (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Huttese) speakers. If we get those film-recognizable ones in we can go further afield and do Bocce (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bocce) or something else that's completely EU. Wookie languages and other things that aren't done with human voices are also welcome if anyone can cobble up enough good sounds to fill out a persona.
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Wouldn't Wookiees be weird, considering they're fairly massive? Lowbacca in the EU is one hell of an anomaly, IIRC.
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A wookie in an A-wing would be amusing, but personas can be assigned to ships with roomier cockpits as well. We have the Falcon in game, so a wookie persona could let people do Chewie missions.
CHEWIEEEEEEEE
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I think a Wookie in an A-Wing would be more akin to something out of Doctor Strangelove. Imagine a Wookiee riding an A-Wing like an armed crotch rocket. :P
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Extra credit for sounding British when doing the voice of any Imp Officer?
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There are plenty of old and new world accents represented in the Imperial forces in the movies so we aren't making any effort to do a predominantly British Empire, but it certainly won't count against you!
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Not all Imperial officers came from Coruscant or Coruscant-like worlds that emulated it, which is where the British sounding accent came from (in universe it's an upper-class Coruscanti accent). You've got officers from rustic Agamar, fast and loose Corellia, stuff like that.
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That brings up an interesting question - are all Imperial pilots officers? That's how the US currently does it but it hasn't always been that way, especially in wartime.
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The US military has not and will never allow an enlisted person to pilot combat aircraft. It's officers only. There have been a few programs where they let NCOs fly trainer, propeller aircraft with instructors in the seat behind them.
Same goes for the Imps. I've never seen a source that suggested an enlisted man was flying a TIE craft.
Edited because I completely misread the intent of your post.
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The US military has not and will never allow an enlisted person to pilot combat aircraft. It's officers only. There have been a few programs where they let NCOs fly trainer, propeller aircraft with instructors in the seat behind them.
Same goes for the Imps. I've never seen a source that suggested an enlisted man was flying a TIE craft.
Edited because I completely misread the intent of your post.
Ah, you know what? You're right. I was thinking about how in WWII they would allow Enlisted men to enter into pilot training, but if they passed they were made a Flight Officer before entering combat. There's been a few other instances of non-commissioned officers or warrant officers being pilots but the idea is sound. Yeah, I'd say that following that basic guideline, all Imperial pilots should be officers of some sort.
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Warrant officers are helicopter pilots for the US Army and Air Force. It's possible for an enlisted person to get a commission by way of flight school, but it's incredibly rare and EXTREMELY competitive. Something like 20 enlisted personnel even enter the academy, and most of them probably wash out.
But yeah, enlisted personnel haven't trained on aircraft since WW2.
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Note, though, this is an US thing (there was something called "flying enlisted program", but I think it was a failure). British have such thing as "Flight Sergeant", and other nation using a similar rank system sometimes also have it. Imperial organization, as usually presented in EU, is weird. It seems to be something between USN, RAF and Napoleonic Grand Army rank system. That said, there's hardly any solid canon on those.
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Yep. To be honest, this is a really pointless little detail of minutia that will likely never come up anywhere...ever...although it could be useful just to have some measure of consistency in Imperial campaign dialogue.
I was talking to Zookeeper and he was mentioning that from his point of view it doesn't seem right that every single little cannon fodder TIE pilot should be an officer, and that it seemed like a waste of training. I guess my perspective is that for one it still takes a significant amount of time to learn how to operate and fly a spacecraft compared to say, pick up a rifle and start shooting. Even then, I think their rank of "officer" would be more of a formality where they got their rank because they're pilots, not necessarily because they take officers and make them pilots.
Of course we're talking about an Empire of countless planets to pull cadets from, so maybe a couple of hundred "flight officers" per Star Destroyer isn't really even that far-fetched. For instance, even Luke wanted to go to the Academy (supposedly to become a pilot) before he got caught up in the rebellion. If they're taking kids from backwater planets like Tatooine through an actual officer's academy, why not every other TIE pilot?
(thanks to Niffiwan for ideas in IRC)
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I was always under the impression the masses of TIE pilots were clones who instead of being trained to become a storm-trooper, they were trained to be a pilot. Which can explain why they are cannon fodder.
Then you got the guys like the main character from TIE Fighter who enlist who I imagine would be officers.
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They were until the Emperor did away with clones. Biggs Darklighter, Hobbie Klivan, Tycho Celchu... They were all flight officers of the Empire that later defected to the Rebel Alliance.
The Empire spanned millions of worlds and trillions upon trillions of beings. Their propoganda and conscriptions were effective. There were few pure clone trooper squads left, the 501st being one of them. The stormtrooper ranks were in the millions, those many millions being enlisted men and sometimes women. TIE pilots weren't as numerous, but you get the idea. And Star Destroyers carried 72 TIEs. There were thousands of Star Destroyers.
I went off on a tangent. Established lore says clones were largely done away with prior to the Battle of Yavin.
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Well there you go, you learn something new everyday.
Apologies too for sending this further Off topic.
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Well, if you don't read the early books, you wouldn't know. The stuff today? ...ugh.
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Then you got the guys like the main character from TIE Fighter who enlist who I imagine would be officers.
Yes, I also recall Maarek Stele being promoted to flight officer after a few missions (or even after training) in the game itself. I'm not sure about "The Stele Chronicles" and the Strategy Guide though.
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We've experienced a bit of a setback as one of our actors has had to back out due to technical difficulties.
On the plus side, this means we have a sumptuous 66-line Imperial part opening up for those interested in a major role!
Check out Lieutenant Grilner (https://docs.google.com/document/d/13UCVq475YBOOsZ16aiCLqeR7rZFfGhVk1IcE98SCpTI/edit?usp=sharing) and hit us with your best shot. Just the first line is fine for an audition, or go ahead and record the whole thing to greatly improve your chances of locking it up early!
I want to hear your sneer.
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Are you still taking submissions for Lieutenant Grilner?
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We've recently had a partial submission from an actor who has a good voice for the part, but there are some technical difficulties to work through. I'm not gonna close this role off until I have all the lines in in good quality (the previous actor who had the role assigned had to back out after months of trying to get over technical hurdles, so I'm a little paranoid with this role in particular).
TL/DR: Grilner is open.
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Submitted the first line, if you think there's any chance that it might do the trick, the rest could follow before the end of next week. :)
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Grilner has been cast.
That's it for the major roles! Big thanks to everyone who has contributed or showed interest.
Crazy alien pilot voices still welcome!
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Just curious, but how many more aliens you looking for?
And how many imperial wingman voices are you using? Obviously they aren't slipping in as many aliens, being that they're xenophobic or something.
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We have six Imperial personas, most of which are flexible enough to be used for other factions with careful use of the mission editor. One of them is really gung ho about crushing the rebellion, so he can only appear in certain missions.
I think we've only got three Alien personas at the moment. We could definitely use one or two more pilots speaking something that sounds like a Star Wars language. If anyone can do something resembling Nien Nunb or Bib Fortuna or the weird eyeball on a stick that pops out of the door at Jabba's palace, that would be awesome!