Not Just Voiceover

Voice-over artist continues quest to regain his lost voice

James — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:57:53 +0000

Hoping that spreading the word will find a cure…

Link to recent article on fellow voice actor Tom Rohe and his fight to get his voice back

snippet from article:

Tom Rohe used to speak for a living. Now he hopes that doctors will give him back his voice.

It’s been a little more than a year since I last communicated with Rohe, the former commercial voice-over artist whose bizarre and painful saga began in late 2009 after a wisdom tooth extraction. Soon after the surgery his jaw suddenly began to click. Then, without warning, his voice began to slur. The muscles in his face took on the appearance of a person who had had a stroke. By July 2010, he could barely speak at all.

Dropin voiceover spot

James — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:45:07 +0000

A recent voiceover project.

Ryan Quincy Talks About Transforming From Reluctant Voiceover Actor to Creator of the New IFC Show Out There

James — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:29:18 +0000

Emmy-winning animator Ryan Quincy has always dreamed of having his own show. During the decade and a half he spent working his way up to animation director for South Park, he spent his hiatuses creating a world entirely his own, inhabited by hairy but harmless creatures just trying to sort out the difficulties of adolescence.

The Name’s Bond… James Bond… Via Voiceover… on Audiobook

James — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:41:19 +0000

LINK

Lucy Fleming, the great Ian Fleming’s niece, discusses releasing the James Bond series as audiobooks. I’m going to have to check out some of them!

excerpt: Did you have any preferences or say on who should read the audiobooks?

Yes. It was almost like casting each book individually. I worked closely with the director matching voices and characters with the stars…and then being patient until these very busy actors had enough time for us. Then having a great time in the studio hearing Ian’s words brought stunningly to life.

Google Redirect Virus and me

James — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:08:57 +0000

Just a quick write-up on my experience with a Google Redirect Virus. When I was hit with the virus, or at least when it kicked in, my browser window closed down by itself. Then multiple (20+) identical error messages filled my screen. The computer went into a scan which I assumed was part of the virus itself since it asked that I purchase a fix. I shut down the scan box and the error messages once again flooded my screen. I tried virus scans using McAfee, which didn’t catch it to begin with, Malwarebytes and Windows Defender (don’t laugh, it’s helped in the past) None of them found anything. I immediately set the computer (Windows 7) to go back to a restore point. The computer hung up on the restore point initialization for over an hour. I didn’t want to stop it and had to go to work so I just shut off my monitor and hoped for the best.
When I got home, I saw that the restore had gone through but a majority of my folders were missing. The desktop only had my app shortcuts and a couple of empty folders. I opened up Picasa and saw that my photos were there. I did a search for a known file and found that it was there but just hidden. I opened Picasa again and my pics were there for about a second or two and then all disappeared. I found that I was able to restore individual folders but didn’t want to go through all of them one by one. I tried to restore to an older date but the same thing happened.
Thankfully, I have a second computer so I was able to do research. I found that all you have to do is go to your User folder, check the Hidden box, Apply, and then uncheck and Apply. This makes all of the folders visible. I did the same for the Program Files folder and Program Files (x86) folder. The last two disappeared after I did it but easily recovered by opening the C folder, clicking Organize (top left) -> Folder and search options-> View tab, -> click Show Hidden Files. Then unclick the Hidden box in those folders and go back and click Don’t Show Hidden Files.
At this point I thought all was well until I tried to do a search in Google and got redirected to some wacky site. Not even like porn or anything, just strange url’s like drvet or revolucion and some kind of real estate site. After some research I learned of a Google Redirect Virus. There apparently are variations of it. There’s plenty of info online but I’ll just go quickly through what I did to fix my problem. Other websites have more details. I tried TDSSkiller and it wouldn’t open, even after renaming it as suggested. I tried Symantec’s FixTDSS and it wouldn’t open either. After that I found a few options that were said to be able to open the way for TDSSkiller to work. RKill and RogueKiller didn’t work for me but HitmanPro did the trick. It allowed me to run TDSSKiller which in turn allowed Malwarebytes to find the virus.
After running scans using the 3 programs I mentioned earlier, all seems well. Search works fine. I hope someone finds this useful and I’d be happy to answer any questions although I’m far from an expert.

MMOs waste millions on voice-over

James — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:05:40 +0000

Interesting take on the use of voiceovers in massively multiplayer online games.

I believe that since these are games players will invest years of their lives into, developers should concentrate on what the players will be spending the majority of their time doing. Unfortunately, that will not be listening to well-trained actors read dialogue. They are great advertising hooks and a valid part of immersive gameplay, but players will spend the majority of time building communities within the game. Give us more tools for that before you spend another 10 million bucks on voice-overs, please.

Newest character work

James — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:27:40 +0000

While I enjoy the more serious and informative voice work I get to do, I still love character work the most. Check out this recent job as Juke, the mascot for Mobile Gaming Revolution: LINK

Nationwide Taps Julia Roberts For Voiceover

James — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:17:10 +0000

Nationwide Insurance is launching an integrated national marketing campaign July 27 featuring the voice of actress Julia Roberts.

“For this campaign, when we were considering how best to deliver our message, we were looking for a familiar voice that would bring our brand character to life,” Hanley tells Marketing Daily. “Julia’s voice brings an authentic, inspired tone to the campaign that resonates well with our target audience.”

Behind the Scenes: VO work on the game Sleeping Dogs

James — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:03:27 +0000

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Pee-wee Herman Dubbing His Voice Over The Dark Knight Rises Trailer

James — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:31:56 +0000

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