Animation/Commercial Reel 2011

Well.

There you go.

Contact:

dustyoldroses@gmail.com

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! ^___^

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.

Then, suddenly, lip sync!

 

MrDude20652 is credit to team! Female Spy now has lip movement, so rejoice!

As if she needed to keep opening her trap.

Ze Sound of Progress, My Friends!

Updating from work. It was inevitable.

They gave me a laptop and a small, quiet room to think in; they knew the consequences of their actions!

Well, then. How fun was Meet the Medic? My eyeballs are still bleeding happy blood tears!

Robin Atkin Downes just has so much titillating, unpredictable energy that it's frightening. And he truly is a lovely man, in my honest opinion. [Incoming Downes appreciation in 3... 2... 1...]

 

WOW! :D



That comment was on my now-ancient Female Medic Voice EXERCISE (I didn't do the soundpack; this was done when she was still just concept art).

Now he didn't have to say that because we all know it was GOD awful. Like, this is my low budget porno done in the back of someone's van outside the 7/11. But I cherish it and keep it up because it shows me where I was, how I improved myself, and the value of a good mic. That's more important than likes and ego stroking, I think.

Downes tries to keep his fans up to date on his work which is very considerate. So for him to take time out of this day to glance over my tiny 7/11 van porno to give me words of encouragement --  that's the mark of a big, sweet man.

If by any chance you're not subbed to his YouTube Channel (which is actually a felony in some states), go pay him a visit. He posted this fun clip for us too!

So ends my fan rant.

In other news, I've been to the corner of SWAMPED and back. Wrestling with the guilt of not being done with those Glados lines, tackling Female Scout and all her whiny screeching, elbow dropping some Paula lines for Maxof S2D's Earthbound Fortress 2 -- it's a freakin' MMA brawl going on in my brain.

And there may be something much bigger on the horizon for my projects. I'm not at liberty to discuss it at the moment, but you'll be the first ones to know about it should it come to fruition.

Oh. Then there's this: http://yamino.deviantart.com/journal/41606673/

NO, bronies, I'm pretty sure I'm NOT doing this. But I thought I'd share for any other VA's who were interested. Nothing against the show, I'm just super busy!

I think I've wasted enough of my job's internet blogging. Here's to another TL;DR post! Cheers!

Recovery and Alice

I'm alive. Really.
I'm just twitching pathetically in a puddle of my own mucus because it's very in this year.

Yes, my body has somehow managed to survive 3 weeks with the same throat pain and post nasal drip that left me open to infection at the beginning of this year. My throat has been so raw and nasty the past month that I punched out sought out every ENT I could get my fists on until an answer was found.

I'm told by highly trained doctors with practically HOURS of ontological experience that it is perhaps one of two things:

Acid reflux (very sneaky, silent reflux) or, way more likely, ALLERGIES (really picky, moody allergies).

With my allergy test fast approaching, I've making preparations to continue with Female Scout and Dr. Hooves's Glados lines for his Portal 2 custom map. I feel awful because pain aside, I PHYSICALLY could not get these things done on the schedule I had planned. Believe me. I tried. Ever hear a voice crack like a Ming dynasty vase getting hit by a bus?

While I was recovering I mooched from Psychoshinobi17 picked up Alice: Madness Returns! I'm so thrilled I can't even SEE all the key binding glitches through my tears of ecstasy!

Derp.

In all seriousness, though, great game so far. If you have the cash to toss around, get it or give the first AM's Alice a spin.

Oh, and Twitter. I do the twitter now:
http://twitter.com/DustyOldRoses
Pop over if you want to what boring nonsense I'm up to.
Pop over...
Mmm, popovers...
I kinda want sweets now. Maybe I'll tweet about it.





... fucking Twitter.

For Science... You Monsters...

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