A while back, I played a key role in Episode 5 of Law & Order: Legacies, produced by the fun-loving folks at Telltale Games. My character, an auto mechanic named Scott Leonard, makes his first appearance at about 10:50 into this video sample. (Bonus points to any reader who knows which real-life vocal group is [...]
Archive for the ‘Voice acting’ category
Law & Order: Legacies, Episode 5 — “Ear Witness”
March 27, 2012A musical interlude while you wait
February 9, 2012Yes, I know. It’s taking me forever to get the new site up. Mea culpa. It’s coming, I promise. In the meantime, enjoy a little something I voiced recently. It’s a promotional video for a Bay Area men’s chorus that delivers Singing Valentines. NIA Creative, an awesome marketing and production company, produced the project. Fun [...]
The Mic Guy at the mic (where else?)
January 31, 2011Yikes… it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here. This occasion, however, warrants the resurrection. On January 19, I recorded my new commercial demo at Voicetrax San Francisco. That’s Samantha Paris, my beloved mentor and coach, in the director’s chair; voice actor and technical wizard supreme Chuck Kourouklis manned the sound board and video [...]
Unlearning
August 25, 2009Take a look at something… READ What do you see in the box above? The word READ, yes? Now here’s a fun exercise: Try NOT to see the word READ there. Try to see a series of four random symbols with no particular meaning. Go ahead… I’ll wait. Can’t do it, can you? No matter [...]
Fat, depressed, and 35… these are my people
August 18, 2009I got a major chuckle out of this article on MSNBC today: A new study says the average age of video-game players in the United States is 35, and oh, by the way: They’re overweight and tend to be depressed. Investigators from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emory University and Andrews University [...]
Internationally speaking…
August 14, 2009After four weeks of toiling in my dialects and accents workshop, here’s what I’ve discovered: My British accent isn’t too shabby. I did a credible Claude Rains riff for the final exercise. And in Prototypes class last evening, my Hugh Grant takeoff favorably impressed some of my fellow actors, who didn’t even realize that it [...]
In the game
August 9, 2009Confession time… I kissed a video game, and I liked it. For the past several weeks, I’ve been eagerly anticipating Pat Fraley‘s Game World event in San Francisco. Three reasons: (1) I had a blast working with Pat during a previous event; (2) Pat’s guest coach was Darragh O’Farrell of LucasArts, about whose directing I’ve [...]
Studied prototypical
August 5, 2009Given that I’ve been working so much on character acting of late — I’m three-fourths of the way through a class on dialects, and I just wrapped a workshop on acting for animation and video game projects, with another of the latter coming this weekend — I haven’t been working much in my natural voice. [...]
Making it do what it do
July 30, 2009If I’ve learned anything in my recent voiceover workouts — and let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that I have — it’s about the essential importance of acting over voice quality. Or, as Sirenetta told our accents and dialects class, “Play the scene, and the voice will follow.” It’s taking a while — [...]
Blimey!
July 24, 2009In an effort to expand my vocal repertoire, I’m taking a four-week seminar on accents and dialects. One might suppose that this aspect of voice acting would come easily to me, given that (a) I’ve lived on three continents, as well as in both Hawaii and the polyglot Bay Area, and (b) I have friends [...]
