Greetings and good day to all! I’m giving away a free Steam key to one lucky person, all you need to do is subscribe to my blog with your email below. This key will only work for U.S. Steam accounts. I’ll be selecting a winner within the next few days and contacting them via the provided email. As always please feel free to ask questions, share with your friends, and thanks so much for listening.
Happy to announce here that I will be voicing Kaziku in the video game, “Teenage Warriors Ice Hotel”. It’s still in the early stages but I’ll be updating as I’m able to share more info on the project.
Here’s my boy Kaziku in action:
Make sure to follow the official Twitter page here for more updates on the game. As always, feel free to ask questions and thanks so much for listening!
Greetings friends! I’m happy to announce yet another film dub, this time for the film “The Ice Forest”. I play a few smaller characters and my first leading role as Pietro. Check out more info on the IMDB page here.
This one has a fun little backstory too, I received the offer when I was overseas at Disneyland Paris with my wife and family. We stopped for some dinner after a long day of standing in lines (the true Disney experience lol) jokes aside, we were waiting for our food, and some ducks started going at it on top of a rock right next to us. (crucial to the story, poor Donald)
Anyway, back to the story, there was a strict deadline which I eagerly agreed to. I mean a lead role in a film dub? Who wouldn’t? I forgot that hours after we arrived back in the U.S. I was off to PAX to work the PQUBE booth for a few days. But no worries! I had my trusty travel recording setup with me, a Scarlet Solo interface, AT4040 Mic, my trusty M1 Macbook, some other bits and bobs and all my fancy plugins. So at 2am, I recorded these lines in an Air BnB belonging to a sweet lil lady. If she heard me, she probably thought it was insane, but that’s ok. As a voice actor, we do what we need to do to get the job done.
As always, any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. Thanks for listening!
Proud to announce I voice the main protagonist in the video game demo of “Vitreus”! He’s unnamed and so far just goes by “MC”, main character – obvs. Sadly this was for a college project so I don’t believe we’ll see more of this guy but man do I love his design. If this game ever resurfaces and turns into something more, I’d be excited and honored to reprise my role. Meanwhile, check out some fantastic concept art and a short snippet of gameplay from their tech demo featuring voice lines from yours truly, the cute little companion voiced by Orion Mickens – @PhantomSauceTV on Twitter and Jay Silverest as the big evil snail.
As always, feel free to ask questions and thanks so much for listening!
BONUS: There’s a scream from my cat (Midna) in the audio.
I know this is a somewhat controversial topic but I wanted to throw in my thoughts as someone that’s worked the majority of my working years in the service industry. I’m sure everyone reading or listening to this has heard at least 10 million times by now “this place closed early because nobody wants to work anymore, this generation is just lazy and wants handouts blah blah”. Sure, some people ARE lazy and just wanna fuse into the couch, it happens, who really wants to spend their time working anyway?
Some people were taught to “pull yourself up by the bootstraps, be a man” blah blah blah… If this is you, that’s great, I’m glad you stick to your ideals and have fantastic work ethic (really, I mean it). The thing is, I don’t think it’s fair to push this onto others. I’ve never heard it said in a friendly way like “oh man it’d be great if you put in more effort and worked more hours to provide for your family and give back to the community”. It’s always stated as FACT or even a bragging point, “you’re lazy if you don’t work 70+ hours and have no home life”. Thing is, more and more people are coming out and saying “nah, I just want to do my own thing, actually live my life and enjoy my free time”, to that I say, “heck yeah! do your thing, don’t let anyone stop you!”.
RANT OVER, back to my point. My thoughts on why “nobody wants to work”. I worked the majority of my working years in customer service, overall I enjoy working with the public and the work typically isn’t so bad. Keyword here is “TYPICALLY”. When you have a bad customer, it ruins your whole day, week, hell it even sours some people permanently. The majority of rude customers I’ve experienced have never worked in a retail environment, they don’t know the rules, procedures, the corporate end of things. They just see the cashier (you) and assume that you’re the face of the company. That means any issues they have, well that’s your fault. You can’t do the thing they want because of store policy? You’re a piece of garbage and they hope you die. They don’t know how to use the thing they purchased? “well a**hole, it’s broken and it’s your job to replace it, I hope you and your family choke on your dinner”.
This seems extreme right? Well, it is. We wonder why there’s a decline in mental health and why “nobody wants to work” in the service industry. There you have it, taking daily abuse from strangers over things out of your control is not a proper way to live. It’s unfair to the workers, especially when they’re ordered to take it with a smile for a non-live able wage. I’ve had people threaten “I’ll be waiting in the parking lot”, I’ve had people vandalize my car and co-workers cars, break products in my face, threaten to kick my a** over the counter. The list goes on and on.
So if you are one of the many people saying nobody wants to work, THIS is what it’s like. Now, I don’t want to discredit that there are some amazing people out there. I’ve made close friends with some regular customers and when you see them come through that door, it’s a great day. Being nice to people in the service industry goes a long way, a friendly compliment, saying “hey no worries, I know you’re trying” when things are going wrong for the employee, none of this goes unnoticed and makes a big difference in that persons life (no matter how small you think it is).
Thanks for tuning in to my rant. Any questions or comments, drop it down below and I’ll be happy to discuss. Thanks!
Hey everyone! Happy to announce (a little late) I had a very small role in some promotional material for Wrath of the Tarot Kings. It’s a film created entirely in RDR2 (I’ll drop the link below), a labor of love by the creator and full of talented people. I said like 2 words but hey, it counts (and I got to use my southern voice).
Anywho, check out the full video here!
This is a question I see on a daily basis in the voiceover world. “I’m just starting out, should I invest in a $1500 mic so I can book more work?” (I’m looking at you Neumann). My answer to that would be a big fat NO. I (like a fool) thought I needed the best equipment and went all out before really researching, thinking that more money = better quality = booking more work.
It’s not that a $1500 mic won’t sound great, but if you’re recording in a poorly treated space, that fancy high quality mic is going to pick up all of the lovely noise you DON’T want. All of the echo, reverb, boxiness (if you record in a small space), room noise, cars driving by, LAWNMOWERS, etc… Now all of this can probably be fixed in post production, but that’s extra work and as a voice actor time = money. Perhaps you aren’t interested in the engineering aspect which means you need to hire someone for your edits (meaning even less money).
Your recording space arguably makes a bigger difference than your mic. For a lot of us, that means a closet densely filled with clothing which isn’t a bad thing. I’ve seen some top voice actors in the industry record nationwide commercial spots in a hotel pillow fort. If you’re one of the lucky few that has an entire room to dedicate to your voiceover business, do a bit of research on proper audio treatment and buy some acoustic panels/bass traps and optimize your space to reduce reflections. There is such a thing as too much treatment, which can leave your recordings sounding dead, that’s why it’s worth your time to do some research.
Acoustic treatment is a lot cheaper than a fancy mic and makes the biggest difference in your sound (in my experience). Most auditions I see prioritize background noise and overall room tone over what type of mic you use.
Well, was this helpful at all? Thoughts? Feel free to drop any questions or comments, I’m always happy to help.
Hey hey hey guess what?! That’s right! Another movie dub announcement! Super excited to announce that you can hear me as a few characters in the English dub of Love is Not Perfect. Airing locally overseas and eventually making its way to streaming. Equally as exciting is that it’s yet another IMDB credit on my resume. I’ve used IMDB for as long as I can remember, so getting to see myself growing on the platform is sort of a life goal of mine, super exciting indeed. Anyway, enough rambling! More news on the horizon!
For more info on the film, you can view that here on the IMDB page.
Super duper excited to announce I’m voicing a few side characters in the English dub! Coming to streaming platforms in the future. Also always exciting to add more to the IMDB credits (a weird dream of mine)
You can check out the details here!