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Hello and Welcome to the VAC if you are not already familiar with this place.

The following is important for all newcomers of the VAC who wish to join:

NG VAC ROSTER!!11!!!1!!1

All Who Wish To Join The VAC: Click right here.
When joining, remember: NEVER post your profile when joining UNLESS you have a demo of your voice ready and you've uploaded it on a website for easy access! Yes! THAT MEANS YOU! Ignore this requirement when joining and you will be beaten severely with a banana. And it will hurt. A lot.

If you need any additional help, contact Elliair via AIM or E-mail (her contact information is in her profile) or contact -Frogs-. Once again, welcome to the VAC (to all who are new here) and enjoy your stay! <3

To the Talented Flash Animators & Producers: Thank you for choosing the NG VAC for your voice actor/actress source! We all hope that you are able to find voice actors and actresses suitable for any roles that you may have available. Click here.

~[This is the Unofficial first page post of the NG VAC - brought to you by Omahdon ripping off Elliair's schtick. WOO!]~

Looks like I missed out on some NGVAC chatting fun over the weekend, not to mention other events of varying importance. VAC Idol? What? Whatssits, what? O.o Anyway, I was busy entertaining (and being entertained with) an old childhood friend who I haven't seen in a while, so NGVAC had to take a second place to that. Plus, she was really hot and hanging out with hot women is something I can never pass up (even if our relationship is entirely platonic. curses). So.... Sorry about that, chief! Especially for all the new profile submissions (or re-submissions) that have occured over the week. That's a lot of roster applications I'm going to have to go through. Oy Vey.

There was a bit of talk about the unreliability and mental instability of people who fish for compliments about their voice acting. I have to admit, I'm one of those people. I like compliments, and I can't help but fish for them. When you're in the acting industry, everything is based on presentation and the audience's response to you. It doesn't matter if you think if you're the best actor in the whole wide world, if the audience doesn't agree with you then you might as well be a realist in a post-modernist world. Which is why I must have continued compliments and ressurances that I do not, in fact, suck complete ass. Which isn't to say that I completely believe them in any rate because they would miss some of the nuances of acting, and I haven't been properly trained to produce those nuances in acting, in any case.

Any kind of acheivement I receive on Newgrounds or other internet-based productions is always tempered by the knowledge that this is all the realm of amateurs, and not nearly the level of professional products. There's also the fact that everything I've learned about acting is more or less self-taught and the listening to other people's styles and methodology. I didn't join the drama club in high school, I was always some nameless, non-speaking extra in the school play (if I ever got chosen in the first place), I have no interest in "serious" stage plays or in theatrical acting, I don't sing so much as "belt" in tune, I haven't been taught how to breath properly for soliloquoys, I don't even know the difference between method acting and.... well, whatever-else-there-is acting! All I have is the assurance of other people that I don't really suck as much as I think I do. And until I get into the business professionally and win an or two Oscar and other notable awards and get heaps load of cashola for every feature I'm in, the audience is all I have to work with as a measuring stick to my talent and success.

Mind you, I have the feeling even if the audience completely hated me, I'd still try, try and try again. I'd probably operate under the thought-process that "I'll make them love me even if it kills me!". Plus, I'm a sucker for attention, even if it's negative. XD

ANYWAY! Pondering of neurosis aside: Mucho congrats to the people in the Spaced Out! Pilot: Hobbes_The_Prince (Stan), Frogs (Captain Leader), Bezo (Robobob) and The_Zodiak (Police Robots) as well as grim_studios for debuting with this nicely done piece of animation. I likes it very much, although admittedly more for its stylings and its overall humourous tone rather than any actual instances of humour. The only part I found quite hillarious was when Robobob decides with complete aplomb, "Then I shall make it harder!". That got a genuine laugh out of me when I mostly wore an amused smirk for the rest of the episode. Still, excellent start to a new series, and definitely looking forward to more. I have a feeling Robobob is going to be regarded as TEH BSET CAHARCETR!!11!1! in future episodes. A fanbase is brewing. Mordor's forces are gathering.

Hrm, next section is gonna be a biggee. Looks like it's double/triple post time!

I think I'll skip on the regular megapost and just reply to people's roster applications instead. Replying to week-old stuff is bound to get me nowhere, I think. I need to reply more often, so people would retain some memory of what I'm replying to instead of jabbering blindly at the air. In any case! Profiles. And the stomping on people's dreams. Because that's what I do.

wesdood (130)
PROS: Your samples are now in the more manageable format of mp3s, and they're relatively free of background noise.
CONS: Mic puffs, breathing on the mic, the sound volume goes up and down like you were juggling your head back and forth from the mic, your acting and voice imitation abilities are questionable though I can imagine you in any number of "bunch of teens in a sitcom situation" type flashes.
VERDICT: Try again. Aim the mic away from your face a bit so you're not speaking directly into it, control the head jiggling (I reccomend getting a metal neck brace that clamps your shoulders and neck into an immobile block of concrete) and try to get a script to work with instead of adlibbing badly.

Joseph_Collins (130)
PROS: Nice array of voices and acting. Voice samples are all available in one easy to download zip. I like.
CONS: Quality goes up and down and left and right and sideways. Judging from your better quality clips though, you're quite capable of not breathing into the mic, mic popping and background noise. That just needs to be applied to all the samples instead of a few.
VERDICT: Once you've sorted out your quality issues with some of your samples (or recorded new ones), welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster later. You might want to think about putting up all the roles you've played on the page you set up, since the roster doesn't actually do a listing of roles. That's what your resume is for.

Revenge_Is_Fun (131)
PROS: Once again, you have a wonderful sense for character acting which I admire greatly. Your samples are also now in the more mangeable form of mp3s.
CONS: You still have quality issues regarding mic puffs and breathing noises. Angle the mic slightly away from your face when recording, so that it picks up the sound of your voice without you directly breathing into it. You have very little, if any, background noise, but judging from the sound of your samples, you've applied just a little bit too much noise filter/reduction, resulting in some loss of sound clarity. Have a talk with HollywoodSound regarding cleaning up your samples, he is available at unitysound@gmail.com
VERDICT: Once you've sorted out your quality issues with some of your samples (or recorded new ones), welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster later.

Daeleo (132)
PROS: A very nicely done array of ethnic voices and various stereotypes. Background noise is a minimum and the file format is mp3, which is always nice.
CONS: Several mic puffs and some breathing noises hurt your sample clip, but otherwise it's all good. Angle your mic away from your face to minimise breathing into it.
VERDICT: Once you've sorted out your quality issues with some of your samples (or recorded new ones), welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster later.

Klepto_Bysmal (133)
PROS: Nice array of character voices with different reads and styles.
CONS: Some reads came off a little flat, but it's more than made up for by the wide variety. A little bit of volume distortion when your voice got loud. Nothing particularly major.
VERDICT: Welcome aboard! Your profile will be added to the roster later.

And now, because this megapost profile review could not possibly end without one:

Tystarr (135)
PROS: Nothing
CONS: Everything
VERDICT: If you want to join the club, check out the How to Join? section of the Newgrounds' Voice Acting Club Roster. It'll provide the details for how to join, as well as help on how to fill the requirements. PLEASE DO NOT POST A PROFILE WITHOUT A SAMPLER UPLOADED SOMEWHERE FOR DOWNLOAD. DO NOT SAY "I'LL MAKE ONE LATER" OR "I'll GET A MICROPHONE IN THREE MONTHS" OR "EMAIL ME FOR SAMPLES PLZ, K?". GET A SAMPLER, HAVE IT UPLOADED AND LINK IT BEFORE POSTING YOUR PROFILE. THIS IS NOT A NEGOTIABLE POINT. THIS MESSAGE IS IN ALL-CAPS AND BOLDED FOR A REASON. SORRY IF IT SEEMS REPETITIVE, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS POINT WAS CONVEYED PROPERLY. Finally, this is a VOICE ACTING club. It is not a I CAN DO ALL THESE VOICES THAT I DON'T HAVE TO PROVE I CAN DO BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A MIC club. Don't try and join if you don't have a working microphone. That's just plain stupid.

And while I'm up:

THE NEWGROUNDS' VOICE ACTING CLUB ROSTER!!!!

.... has been updated. Profiles added: For the females we have Revenge_Is_Fun. For the males we have Angal_the_Chupacabra, Daeleo, Joseph_Collins, Klepto_Bysmal and meneldil.