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Voice Actors Protest at E3
Thought it wasn't really covered by any of the news sites, there were apparently several protests by voice actors at this year's E3. ShackNews has a piece on the under-reported event. From the article: "To deny working-class performers their fair share of the tremendous profits their labor helps to generate is illogical, unreasonable and unjust...It is simply shortsighted to believe that consumers don't care about the artistic quality of the characters."
A friend of mine is actually a voice actor. He's been in some big video games as well. He is quite talented and the range of voices he does is amazing. According to him if the voice acting is poor, its sometimes the director, not the voice actor.
I really do think that voice acting brings a ton to the table in video games (example: Star Wars KOTOR). Although I agree that $375 an hour is quite expensive, how much does an actor make?
The problem with a celebrity is with alot of them you dont think wow *Charichter* is acted well , you think wow thats *celebrity* doing *charichter . You can still lose alot of the imerrsion . .
Now i know alot of actors are great at voice work and can make you forget they are *celebrity* and just *charichter* but alot are not.
If you have a no-name with tallent then your gaurenteed to have immersion if they are cast well
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
While you point to Yoda as an example, you fail to mention Gollum, who, while CGI, needed a live actor (Andy Serkis) to give animators an idea as to how Gollum would move and act.
Sure, and as studios build up libraries of movements they can use those in place of real people wearing suits with reflective points on them. The original Star Wars movie, back only in 1977, used models on sticks and fancy filmwork to achieve the goal. I won't bother arguing on music or other tangents.
Electronics replacing a human on both film and audio track? It will happen, when is the unknown.
Trolling is a art,
You are right, but I have a big news flash for them: They were hired because they were cheap.
Force game companies to pay royalties, and you will see people like Patrick Stewart and Minnie Driver doing all the voice-work for games (and the games will cost $80 a pop to cover the costs.) All of these whiners would have to go back to scrambling for radio advertisement work.
Then how sweet would $750 for two hours of making "getting shot" noises into a microphone sound?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.