miri
SAG-AFTRA vidya voice, stunt and mocap actors go on strike against 11 publishers including EA, Insomniac, Activision and Disney
miri
dannnnnng
miri
more info
ryannN?!
haha dang I bet the place I used to work is going batshit
ryannN?!
it's not mentioned by name here, but it's literally the hollywood company that gets voice actors for games and does a lot of the recording sessions
ryannN?!
I processed pay for some of the names in these articles...
miri
wil wheaton chimes in on why he supports it
miri
oh man I bet
ryannN?!
yeah it's listed in a bunch of articles
ryannN?!
Blindlight
miri
good time to not be there, yikes
ryannN?!
it was actually really creepy?
ryannN?!
not blindlight's fault, but
ryannN?!
there was one audition where they were trying out for the I guess mentor person in the tomb raider origin story game?
ryannN?!
and the name "croft" was changed to some random other name
ryannN?!
and I knew it was tomb raider but the actors didn't, and they read the lines as they were
miri
I could see where that'd be kind of weird, yeah
ryannN?!
and their method of casting was to do an open call, but also just to sit in the bullpen with all their linux computers and sort of toss actor names back and forth
ryannN?!
"who do you think would be a good x"
ryannN?!
"ah we could give their agent a call"
miri
laughs ... that's wonderful
ryannN?!
I liked the people there a lot, I'm pretty sure they just went with the confidentiality stuff proposed by the gaming companies
miri
yeah ... looks like the absolute lack of awareness of what they're even doing is one of the things they're looking to change
ryannN?!
it's hard
ryannN?!
they would jsut be there in the soundproof booth -- which got baking hot the longer it was sealed shut, of course
ryannN?!
and austin in the headphones would be like "ok now you're being shot"
ryannN?!
"give me a couple different shooting ones"
ryannN?!
"now you're being stabbed"
ryannN?!
"now punching"
miri
voice actors are fucking superheroes
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yeah i think the "but everyone else on the project doesn't get residuals" is the key point here
𝓞𝓬𝓽𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓭
these companies sure don't want the developers who are killing themselves with crunch time to get the idea they should get more compensation too for big sellers
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(some companies do give bonuses like my hubby's does for sales over a certain amount but not all do)