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Masquerade_X: A Pretty Face flash animation, eh? Count me in! (amongst the already growing list of people who want to be counted in and have mentioned so) I've always wanted to play Dr. Manabe. Cause he's a crazy perverted doctor, and I love playing crazy, perverted doctors! Not that I have experience BEING a crazy, perverted doctor.... or anything.... Yeah.

iflfan: Very well, your name has been taken off the "to add" list. Good think you changed your password too, otherwise who knows WHAT malicious things people could have done in your Yahoo folder. O.o

-Frogs-: That's an interesting idea, but of course the only way to implement it is by asking everyone who gets casted in something to voluntarily give the link to the flash producers they work with. That shouldn't be too much trouble for everyone, right? Right? Riiiiiiiiight.... O.o Plus, members are making an effort to post a link here to the poor souls posting for VAs on the Flash forums, so hopefully that works as word-of-mouth, too!

DarkMatter2: Another NNN, eh? Will add your profile later.

chibi_lila: Hey, Lila! Welcome to the NGVAC! Will add your profile later.

Oh, and because we're all the way on another new page, here it is again:

THE NEWGROUNDS VOICE ACTING CLUB ROSTER!

*flashes around the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster* For all your voiceover casting needs! Use the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster! Why it's so filled with voice acting people goodness, it was linked thrice!

iflfan:Will add you to the roster later. But, errrrrrr.... Are you sure you want to flash around your Yahoo ID and password around like that? Especially if you intend to continue using it as an email address? I mean, anybody can hi-jack it. ANYBODY. You're just lucky most people here are apathetic to this opportunity.

Masquerade_X: Yes, I've heard of Pretty Face. Read a couple of volumes too, found it quite the hillarity. Why bring up the subject?

-Flameboy-: INACTIVE NOT SUPERIOR. INACTIVE INFERIOR. SOUNDWAVE CRUSH YOUR LUNGS.

Donnie_Darko: Welcome to the club! Please enjoy yourself and hope you have a pleasant stay. Will add you to the roster later.

Foxphere: I dunno, I really don't want to go around encouraging crazy people to join. I mean, crazy CRAZY people. Not normal crazy. Who'll just take up space on the roster and never actually voice act for anything. Don't want to make my job of updating any harder than it already is!

RLL_BABY: Will add your sample to your profile later.

PunishedOne: Ohhh? I think that's right.... I voiced a whole heap of other lines for you as well, I think! Never really catalogued them well or put them on my resume because I didn't really know what they were even for. O.o

SuperSaiyanLogan: Yahoo Briefcase doesn't allow direct linking. If you want people to download those files, you're either going to have to upload them elsewhere, or do what iflfan did and give your Yahoo username and password so people can access your files. That's.... not really a reccomended way to go, though.

I gotta learn to reply more often, instead of making mega posts like this, but that just ain't my STYLE, yanno?

Isca: Thanks for noticing the SUPAH-IMPROO-VEED newish layout and content. It's nice to know that someone out there truly cares. A bit. Maybe. I dunno. Erm. Sorry about your laptop? @_@;;;

vashtsakared: Ha! Apathy club splitting up due to APATHY. That is funnee. Hee. Actually, "PREVENTTHEHARVESTING" is meant to be a rudimentary spam-blocker designed to PREVENT THE HARVESTING by spambots (haHA! hence the name!). But your explanation is much cooler, so I included that as well!

frogs: Ah, the secret is out! All voice actors are actually very strange and massive atention whores! .... Well, I guess that's not so much a secret. But it can be if you kill everyone who knows it! Yes. Anyway. I'll keep the pain thing in mind. O.o;;;

Updates to the roster:
KagomeHigurashi: updated your profile.
D-Mac_Double: didn't update your profile with new clips. :-P
ragnarock1: updated your "corriculum".
Renewman: updated your profile with special notes.
PunishedOne: will add your profile later. Even though you hired Tamtu, Kagome and D-Mac for your project, but not me. Damn you! I'll just put in your "Special Notes" section that you enjoy acting in high girly voices and screaming "HELLO SAILOR!" at the top of your lungs, that's all. Wait, am I still typing this? CRAP! erm.... Monkey?
Tetsyo: will add your profile later. Question mark over the "Immortal" as an age range, but whatever. It's your profile!
LazyKenny: updated your profile with new clip, even though you probably didn't want me to. :-P
SuperSaiyanLogan: will add your profile later. Oooh, an acting major? Nice!

Woosh! Updated the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club Roster, which now contains 33% more content! Including a section for flash producers looking to hire voice actors, complete with testimonials by satisfied flash producers and a reading of the text by yours truly (making the claim of dedicated voice actors more valid. plus, I'm an attention whore. @_@)! The recruitment section for new members has been extended with more details on the enrollment profile, as well as random member testimonials. Finally, more voice actors have been added to the roster (an alarmingly large number of them male) and I've neatened things up so they look a little bit more spiffy than the last time.

Enjoy my updating pain!

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps!

At 2/20/05 06:40 AM, KagomeHigurashi wrote: This is a moronic question coming from the creator of this club, but how do you guys find voice work in Flash? I've checked your guys' resumes and a lot of them are quite extensive, so, ano.....should I just start e-mailing some random producers or what?

Well, I've tried emailing flash producers directly in the past, but that's turned up only.... one, maybe two roles at best. Everything else in my resume was done with extensive auditioning for anything voice acting-related the the Newgrounds' forums and keeping my eyes peeled for opportunities to apply my skills.

I also got scouted a couple of times, both via email and AIM, which is a pleasant surprise.... Well, usually a pleasant surprise. Sometimes it's a nasty surprise and I feel ill for not refusing the role and potentially getting stuck in something offensive and in rather poor taste. But hey! That's what you get when you toss your mad l337 voice akting skillz0rz out there for free.

DMac, you've some nice lower-register voices going at the start of the demo.... And an amusing interruption in the middle of all the machoness! :-P However, while I do recognise you've got lines from different characters in there (MGS rules!), running them in tandem makes it hard to distinguish from one another: since they're all characters who have the same speed of delivery and almost exactly the same voice (with noticeable variations, but incredibley similar nonetheless). Mixing it up with different "serious" characters you can do that aren't strictly low-register might help. Also, you might want to work on projecting your voice. Right now, you're using an intimate sort of voice, which is suitable for talking to someone close to you or whispering in their ear. Even though the microphone is directly in front of your face, you've got to pretend that it's actually several feet away, in a large empty room, and you have to speak up in order to be heard (extremely important when you want to go all out megalomaniacally crazy). Otherwise, it'll just sound like you're "whisper-shouting" your lines, which takes away from the dramatic element of your speech. And recording on Audacity instead of Sound Recorder is definitely stepping in the right direction. :-P

inevitability, GID is finally out? YAY! Good job on that! And nice work, Frogs, Ellair. You both did a great job and your voices fit the mood of the flash quite nicely. In hindsight, after watching the flash, I'd have used a voice that's less mean and bitter. It's a little over the top as it is. O.o So filled with bitterness, Cain is.

Smithercell, thanks for the double compliment! :-P Yeah, that roster was an "up all-night"er thing I did for the heck of doing it.... But it's worth it! .... Sort of! .... Well, not really. It just means more work for me. O.o Oh well. Good luck with finishing off Sonic Matrixa Final! Hope to see it grace the Portal soon enough!

Very nice demo, Frogs! You definitely have some high quality recording equipment there, and a nice variety of voices! I'd say experiment reading at different speed, since it's pretty obvious it's the same guy speaking all the lines in tandem when they're all exactly the same speed of delivery (for the more normal voices, anyway). Your voice has a definite distinctive quality that's hard to hide, so the best way would be to mix it up with extremely different voices with different reads. *nods nods* BTW, love your original music.

Of course, this post is all an excuse to post the Newgrounds' Voice Actor Roster, yet again. Huzzah!

They're both threads asking for voice acting. And both about Final Fantasy in general, ironically enough. I didn't really feel the need to change the contents of my posts to both. O.o

Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club, j0. Also: roster of all its members.

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps!

If you're looking for voice actors, there's the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club. There's also a roster of all its members, if you want to try handpicking your VA people. Hope this helps!

I like how there haven't been a great influx of new profiles for the last couple of pages.... But once a formal roster thing comes along that could VERY WELL HAVE YOUR NAME ON IT RIGHT NOW, OH YEAH! everybody and their mother starts signing up. Weird. Looks like I'll have my work cut out for me when I get around to updating that roster. Oy.

Good luck on the amateur voice acting panel, Kags! Being a panelist sounds like fun! Nerve-wracking, but fun. O.o

I could always post it on each subsequent new page. Having it in the siggy works, too. In any case:

Newgrounds Voice Acting Club Roster, yo dawg.

At 2/17/05 10:43 PM, Elliair wrote:

At 2/17/05 08:31 PM, Omahdon wrote: The Newgrounds Voice Acting Club Roster!

Well done on the roster. It's well organized.

Thanks, it probably took too much effort to make considering about less than half of the people on that roster are actually active, but what the hey? At least it looks neatened up now.

That form being this thing here:

Your Newgrounds Username: (and your real name if you so wish)
Gender: (your REAL gender, not the one you use to lie on the internet about. You know what I'm talking about)
Age Range: (not how old you actually are, but what ages you are able to sound like. backing it up with an actual age would help but is not necessary)
Specialties: (screaming, anime voices, monster voices, talking through a blocked nose while someone beats you with a pipe.... etc.)
Resume URL: (if you have one)
Example(s) of your voice: (if you have one/some)
Ways to contact you: (at the very least, leave an email)
Special Notes: (personal notes about yourself or experience or what have you)

Well, the design is simple, and the entire page took too long to make and format from the "profiles" over the last 19 pages of this thread or so, but here it is!:

The Newgrounds Voice Acting Club Roster!

If you've made some attempt at filling out the default profile form, I made some effort to put your name into the list. All alphabeticalised-like, of course. Just trying to organise all the profiles that have been submitted so far, so that it was all available on one easy- to-view page.

Anyway, hopefully this will help producers find the actor(s) they're looking for on the huge mega-list!

When you need voice acting lovin', don't try those non-self-heating adhesive brands! Try the Newgrounds Voice Acting Club for healthier, tastier and stronger teeth and bones! Only on Newgrounds today! Don't delay, order NOW!

Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club club, yo.

At 2/11/05 11:34 AM, Little_Phoenix wrote: Sorry for the many many posts, but i'm just getting started, and you folks really seem to know what you're doing!
I have been recording sides & whatnot so, hopefully, i can majke an amateur demo just to get started (can't afford a professional one just yet), and i'm getting a lot of noise...i mean, a LOT. Okay, i'm recording w/ my computer, so that's probably making a lot of the noise, but i tried taking the mic into a closet full of clothes and recording there, i'm getting the same amount of background noise (the only difference is my voice- i don't sound like i'm inside a tin can) I'm wondering if all the noise is bcs. my mic is plugged directly into the sound card? What can i do to remedy this problem? Also- what's a foam mic cover for and do i need one? Thanks for all your help! BTW- Isca, i'll definately check out Cool Edit Pro. I've heard of it before, but wasn't sure, thanks for the tip!

Sounds like what you're picking up is ambient noise; don't worry about it, everybody has that. But yes, dirty plugs for your soundcard can also be a problem (as well as just plain bad plugs). Mic foam covers and puff shields are entirely optional, but reccomended for helping your mic avoid picking up some of those lippy-smacky noises. In any case, Cool Edit Pro 2.0's noise reduction function can really help with getting rid of the background stuff. You can get it here. The crack for it will be a little harder to find....

Also, make sure you're recording at LEAST a rate of 44KHz, 16-bit, mono. That could be why there's so much noise. Anything lower than that and more ambient noise just automatically creeps in, especially at an 8-bit resolution of sound.

Good luck!

Alternatively, people can ask at the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club. Or join up if ya inclined that way.

I find it easier just to email people making requests. You can have all the demos you want, but you gotta have someone hear it first to make it count! :-)

That said, my sig is lonely because nobody ever clicks on the samplers. *sniffs* Poor, lonely, sad samplers....

Probably making a general demo to show off what kind of voices you can do, as well as display the cleanness of your samples, would be a good idea.... But apart from that there aren't really any set rules for getting into the whole "voice acting" thang on Newgrounds. If a request for a voice comes up, just answer it. Preferably with more than just "i can do that voice. email me k thx bai". Be a bit more pro-active and email the flash producer directly (or AIM, YIM, MSN, whatever), along with samples of you actually trying to do the voice(s) asked for. Saying you can do it is one thing, ACTUALLY doing it is another. And be prepared for rejection. It happens. Not often (because Newgrounds has a rather low voiceover standard overall, really) but it can happen.

Also, there's the Voice Acting Club, where people can post requests or that they're willing to do a voiceover job.

Good luck!

At 2/8/05 09:56 PM, Elliair wrote:

At 2/7/05 07:24 PM, Foxphere wrote: I am working on a Megaman sprite movie made by a collab of some of the best sprite animators on NG, the Sonic Matrixa,

O_o..You're working on Sonic Matrixa, too? I didn't know that. I'm doing the voice of Tails for that production.

..and also, I've made a voice acting resume site for myself just recently. For the moment, however, the page which should consist of my demos and samplers and what not, has nothing in it. But I do plan on putting the new demo I just finished there in just a few days time.

Hahahaha, looks like quite a few people in the NGVAC are working on Sonic Matrixa. :-P We're in a couple of other things together as well, Ellair (GiD and Faded Illusions), check out my rather old looking resume in my sig.

Well, it depends upon the quality of your soundcard's input jacks. If you're not sure about the quality or if the quality is bad (like, you have an onboard soundcard), get a USB mic. If the quality of the jacks are good.... Then a USB mic is still your best bet, just to be on the safe side.

And you're better off using programs like Audacity or Goldwave for recording. Sound Recorder lets you record, sure, but it doesn't let you edit the recording for length, noise reduction and whatnot. But if you're not worried about any of that, go for it.

Link, yo:

Voice Acting Club

Always here for people who need le voiceover work done! Samplers below in the siggy.

Thunder! THUNDER! THUNDERCATS!

Voice Acting Club

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Alternatively, there's the Voice Acting Club.

At 1/23/05 05:15 AM, JimmyR666 wrote:
cmon i'm willin to take a part and theres bin no response

You could try, I dunno, actually EMAILING the guy with your questions. And not expect a response within 5 minutes of posting. Not everybody is on the boards to check out replies 24-7, yanno.