(10-03-2013, 02:33 PM)Zyrusticae Wrote:
Haha hah...ahhhhh...heh. Umm, well everyone is a critic, amirite?! xD
And also, Zyrusticae, being an amateur, and I DO mean amateur. Wait...no scratch that, I meant AMATEUR. Ahem, anyway so being an amateur/VO artist in training (thus far I have had a small amount of professional training), I can at LEAST say with confidence that good voice acting is 100% about TRUTH. I can NOT stress that enough. It is the inflection and nuances. We all know the basics if we think about it because what makes a good film actor? More than likely the same thing that makes a good voice actor, just with some small differences. I won't go into greater details because that is more so for talk between VA's discussing and bouncing the fundamentals around, which probably would bore most people with the wall of text xD.
As for the CASTING aspect, THAT falls DIRECTLY onto the casting director/producer. NOT the actor themselves. So if the casting was bad, it isn't on the actor for that fuck-up!
(10-03-2013, 02:30 PM)K'nahli Wrote:
K'nahli may have very strong opinions, but that just may mean he has a calling to become a director or casting agent! xD Severity CAN breed quality after all, but not without the indispensable ability of tact.Â
To which I ask again to all that have an opinion on the matter, if people do not understand the language, do they tend to have a more biased opinion in favor of foreign languages sounding 'better'?
I am not saying K'nahli is wrong by any means, but I would be interested in hearing any clarification of their statement of 'does the voice suit the character'. What does that mean exactly? Does the voice not fit the face? I can guarantee you I have had MANY people say my voice does NOT match the way I look. Or is it simply the voices are not believable? Those would be two entirely different things. Again, not a slight on you in any way shape or form. Harnessing that critique and shaping it to be constructive can actually be a very good thing if you were to say get into the entertainment industry. Like a psuedo-Simon Cowell xD
(10-03-2013, 06:21 AM)X Wrote:
Raubahn in German, eh? I'll definitely have to check it out on YouTube once I get through him via the English version xD Admittedly, I always had the bias of, "Oh it's German. Well...it'll automatically sound like two things: angry and epic"
(10-03-2013, 06:09 AM)Yoa Wrote:
That is very interesting! I can imagine you finally like getting how English sounds and all that, and you're ready to play a game with English VA, you're amped to hear it and when you finally hear them you are just like, "Da fuq is dis?!" I also started when the NES was still in it's prime, but I guess I had a much easier time when the shift of 'silent heroes' went to 'voiced heroes' so to speak. Maybe because I used to watch Anime often when I was young, so perhaps that helped with me accepting it? I have no clue lol.