News Sound Bites - First Batch of 2008

IGN gives Dragon Ball Z: Budokai for the Wii an A+ for voice and sound, about a C- overall. I'm currently watching the Frieza Saga just for kicks...

Voices.com has released an incredible "State of the Business" for Voice acting. Read it. Learn it. Live it.

CNet (via Reuters) wants you to host your own talk radio show, over the internet.

The voting is in, and Idolator has finally delivered us their worst album art of 2007.

Gamasutra has a great article on the challenges getting artists and coders to communicate when producing videogames.

The Voice of the London Tubes, Emma Clarke (known for telling passengers to "mind the gap"), was dropped after satirizing her Tube gig. The press surrounding the incident has boosted her profile, and she can now be heard on a popular Sat-Nav.

Yeah I decided to make the entire last story a link. What wanna fight about it?

Dragon Ball Z Voices "Behind The Screams"

Just a fun Sunday post.
This is a year old vid on Youtube, a making of documentary called "Behind The Voices" that was released for DBZ Budokai 3. I don't know why I was, but I was kind of surprised by how many of the voice actors from the show were used in the game.

I should start showing this to people when jerks talk about how "easy" voice acting is, and how under-valued video game voice over is.

Check it out, these people rock the mic, and keep coming back for more.



My favorite part is at around 6:20 when the actor who plays Goku laughs about passing out in the booth.