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Here you can see tips and experiences from the actors and producers point of view in online projects, as well as endeavors of going pro. From frustrations to accomplishments, as well as providing resourses for others who wish to persue voice acting as either a hobby or career.
True, this is still a fandub, but the search for auditions was wide and the competition was steep, so I was way surprised when I got the role (because of the recording quality on this computer, I usually don't get parts unless I'm the only one who auditioned for them...but that soon will change buwahahaha! Yes, I saved up for a nice desktop that I will be buying this next month!) of Maleficent and the final product came out pretty quick too (trying to beat the clock on the official English release) so I wanted to share this~
Another thing I'll be able to fix with my new compy will be a better video card (fingers crossed) and so the picture won't lag when I try to time lines to the voice flaps...that would have way helped in my first half of lines.
Also, knowing more context would have helped too. I had the trailer script and the Japansese trailer to go by for what on earth I was saying. For the first scene, it would have been helpful to better understand Maleficent's motivation in where she was going in her conversation with Terra.
I do love how my later lines turned out ^^ Shivers and woo-hoo-hoo! If I ever make a dubbing demo for youtube or something, I'll wanna use those clips lol X3
Of course you can fan-spaz about Birth by Sleep with me too, I'm eager to learn all the plot twists that we will find in this game!
As I head Dare to Dream Fantasies on-line and a friend heads Red Hair Productions, we've combined into Red Hair Fantasy to create a dub for the Manga, Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning!
We've cast characters for the arc of the first three chapters and just got our Trailer out! :D
More informations (or not lol) is on this thread...kinda...it's really just the trailer thread.
Well I'm working on scripting out the chapters while Kage is mixing and then I'll be putting them to the manga pages. Here's a fun collaborative effort to bring something exciting for audiences. (As the manga will actually say WHAT the Blade Children are, unlike the anime...and yeah, this started with me researching the Spiral Manga for my Kingdom Hearts story and getting a strong urge to produce something Spiral-y...and the manga has new characters and such not in the anime and we hope to get it all done, as we're taclking this in arcs at a time)
Just wanted to share a little triumph in my long endeavors of a long-running series 
For those who don't know, I have been working on YuYu Hakusho Beyond! a sequel series to the fabulous YuYu Hakusho since my last year of college, which will date me as I say 5 years of working and tweaking the story. Yes, I only am into releasing the second saga, but I have 22 sagas currently outlined.
So anyway, I went to Anime Vegas in hopes of presenting it to Justin Cook. Now we did get to 'geek out' as he termed it when he later signed my autograph book about YuYu Hakusho (and WOOT he's a big fan with all of the mangas in Japanese and CDs and such) but he explained the show wasn't popular enough for it to be profitable to liscense the songs for Eizou Hakusho or for someone from the U.S. to attain the liscense and continue the series. He did seem interested in looking up my sequel.
We interrupt this story of achievment to bring you scenes from Anime Vegas:
Me dressed as Yokira with Jusin who plays Yusuke
When I got home from the con and got my computer back, however, I found a note that someone had printed off my scripts and shared them with her coworkers. They said it was pretty awesome for a fanfiction and I could be a great script writer with experience. That was cool enough as it was, but here's the real victory: These co-workers were FUNimationg VAs! 
Included were Chris Sabat, Kyle Hebert, Jerry Jewell, and Aaron Dismuke. Later I was told that said person sharing did a table reading of all my episodes out so far with Chris Sabat and Justin Cook (yay, he got to read it after all!) and how they enjoyed it!
So those who realize the painstaking process I go through with getting Beyond! written and how much I've put into it understand how this is a refreshing second wind for me. I've been fangirl spazzing for over a week now...am I going on two now? Well, I wanted to share this little bit of happiness of success and vitory with everyone, especially those aspiring ones out there, that maybe it can work. As Vic Mignogna told me when I mentioned my sequel series to him, "Go for it, you may get lucky."
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I hope to update here again soon with:
Trailer to Spiral Mangadub (co-producing)
English Fandub of Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (actress...can't say too much about it now, but it's for the KH community, so I'm excited I got a part!)
Maybe some Eizou Hakusho Fandub Updates as I've taken to mixing it myself as I've gone through two mixers that have gone MIA
Voice actor-ism! For those who would like to audition for VA roles but don’t know where to get started…TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY! Because I’m going to tell you here and now what I found out with lots of frustrating searching.
Ok, first you will need a comp w/ a microphone somehow attached. Then you can download Audacity for FREE from online. You can save your voice in wav or ogg files, but if you want to save as an MP3, that is a separate, but free download offered at the same website.
Then you follow settings that are asked for in the audition, I usally don’t change the recording settings unless the producer wants the file saved in a specific Hz or bit rate that is different from the default.
Click “Record” and TALK! Click “Stop” when done and “Play” to hear yourself! If you push “Record” again, it will start a new line so when you play you will hear both lines unless you mute or solo one.
The beauty of not auditioning in person, you can do the line over if you mess up and the director will never know! I usually do a few takes of all the audition lines then select the one I think is best, highlight it, and under File “Export selection as wav” or MP3, etc. {In the new Beta version of Audacity, it is just "Export Selection" then you choose which format} Save it the way the person asked to save the lines (Usually Yourname_Character_AuditionLine#.MP3).
I then usually zip all my lines together for quick loading as an email attachment, and quick for the other person to download it off the email.(I tried an evaluation version of WinZip, but there is a simpler way that your computer is already capable of doing so-- right-click on a/the file(s) and selecting "Send to..." and "compressed folder" will do the trick. You may also add more files after creating a zip folder--just drag and place them over the zip folder and it will copy it into it.)
Looking for somewhere to start auditioning for roles? I started on Voice Acting Alliance I also just came across another forum, the Voice Acting Club for a smaller community and more animated projects.
{I'm Refi-chan on See My Profile! VAA has lots of tutorials, but you can message me if you need help!}
