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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dubbers need dosh, mate!

Another small update on things in this little neck of the world.
  • Female Scout's chuggin' along... Valve time, people. Valve time.
  • For those following my blog and Twitter, I may have some special tidbits for you that I wont be sharing with those following my YT account. So aren't YOU special?! More on that at a later date.
  • New soundpack idea bubbles in my brain, but I shant release details until I'm sure I want to do it.
  • Otakon 2011 fast approaches. I'll be there with bells on my toes and horn-rimmed specs on my face, so you just might catch me in the cosplaying crowd - or at least my business car
So seeing as how this is a blog by a voice-over enthusiast, I feel obligated to share the following with you. This was posted on Erin Fitzgerald's deviantart account. Her most notable roles include May Kanker and Nazz from Ed, Edd, & Eddy and Morrigan in MvC3.

This is her plea to those of you (including myself) who torrent anime illegally. 
You can should read it HERE, but the TL;DR is try not to do it, anime watchers. It hurts the profits for the American dubbers which in turn hurts voice actors payment and getting hired. These are fun shows to watch for free, but dubbers need dosh to keep buying rights to NEW animes to dub.

In short, please think before you torrent - for the children.

Thank you for your support. In other news - - KITTY TIME! ^___^


Saturday, July 9, 2011

Progress. Slow progress.


It appears as though I'm starting to finally catch up on some of my projects. Allergy tests are finally done with, revealing that I am allergic to something all year round! 
One of them on the list was cockroaches... I shiver in my boots at the prospect. Bleck. 

Creepy little buggers...    
So now that I'm aware of my triggers, all I need do now is stay the fuck away from them as best I can so I don't launch my throat into a hellish blood storm.

I've since started up on more soundpack progress. Female Scout will, unfortunately take some time. And I'm going to use math to show you!

Female Spy Lines = 249
Amount of Time to Complete Pack = 2.5 months

Female Scout Lines = 450+
Completed Lines = 30
I punch those numbers into my calculator and I get a kick to the teeth.
What truly holds up the progress on the pack is the level of energy that should be present throughout. The overall character is an irritating one, a pestering kind if know-it-all mentality that is entirely distasteful. That's why we LOVE Scout. He's an ASS.

But here's the tricky thing: in entertainment media of any genre women aren't typically get assigned these roles. Ever. When men are young jerky upstarts with class clown antics, it's charming and humorous. When women are assigned these traits, it's unappealing, grating, or marginalizing for that character. It's sad, but true: as far as the media is concerned, women are not allowed to be dicks. That's why they're called "dicks".

I had a professor who worked for a big player in network TV (I'm not Allowed to Be giving out Certain names). Charged with the duty of creating a villain for a new game they were producing, he designed a woman of high class and wit with flawless comedic timing and a tragic backstory. She was sharp. Demeaning. Delicous. And what did they tell my prof? 

Make it a man.

Now before the war of the sexes sprouts in anyone's mind, let me say this: 
Nelson rating demographics taken from children ages 8-13 show that the majority of that group's audience are male. And a survey conducted of that target group concluded with unwavering results that young boys did not like powerful women figures in their television programming.

And these are children. Food for thought, America.

Anyway, that's about as political as I'll ever get on this blog. I'm just in this for the fun.

In the meantime, enjoy the progress being made with the Glados lines for Dr. Hoove's custom Portal 2 map!
Gender is irrelevant to Glados; women burn just as easily as men.