Friday, July 15, 2005
freaky friday stuff: striking out at the arcade - no, nowadays it's on the x-box...!
Performers on strike... video game voice-over performers that is... wow.
This is really all the proof we needed that the world is seriously going down the tubes... of insanity! *LOL*
What in blue blazes could these performers be complaining about now - their profiles were not properly shot? They are lending their voices to animated characters, for crying out loud!!! Kids and any fun-loving individual will do that just for fun - spontaneously and FOR FREE! *LOL*
This is even worse than this OTHER labor dispute - which was finally settled - or so they tentatively say - now, after 301 (three hundred and one) days of a lock-out that made, as many agree to say, NO WINNERS AT ALL.
Yep... I am comparing the NHL with video game hijinks... why not? As recently noted, right here - on the luminous blog...! - the game has already been announced and given a (tentative?) release date - NHL 2K6... Wow - they really were optimistic that the real NHL "superstars" would be playing (and not scab players - as I was personally hoping for!). NHL players held out for a better deal - and DID NOT GET IT. They, at least lend their likenesses and voices to video games - without making the fuss that the likes of Samuel L. Jackson are making... this when the bulk of his money comes from acting poorly when he actually is IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA... not hiding his basically expressionless mug behind a microphone! Oh well... he must absolutely need the extra income (maintenance workers cost so much these days! *LOL*).
Gimme a freak-ing break...! :\
I think we ALL need an ENYA PAUSE...! ;)
This is really all the proof we needed that the world is seriously going down the tubes... of insanity! *LOL*
What in blue blazes could these performers be complaining about now - their profiles were not properly shot? They are lending their voices to animated characters, for crying out loud!!! Kids and any fun-loving individual will do that just for fun - spontaneously and FOR FREE! *LOL*
This is even worse than this OTHER labor dispute - which was finally settled - or so they tentatively say - now, after 301 (three hundred and one) days of a lock-out that made, as many agree to say, NO WINNERS AT ALL.
Yep... I am comparing the NHL with video game hijinks... why not? As recently noted, right here - on the luminous blog...! - the game has already been announced and given a (tentative?) release date - NHL 2K6... Wow - they really were optimistic that the real NHL "superstars" would be playing (and not scab players - as I was personally hoping for!). NHL players held out for a better deal - and DID NOT GET IT. They, at least lend their likenesses and voices to video games - without making the fuss that the likes of Samuel L. Jackson are making... this when the bulk of his money comes from acting poorly when he actually is IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA... not hiding his basically expressionless mug behind a microphone! Oh well... he must absolutely need the extra income (maintenance workers cost so much these days! *LOL*).
Gimme a freak-ing break...! :\
I think we ALL need an ENYA PAUSE...! ;)
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Is video-game strike coming?
Last Updated Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:46:41 EDT CBC Arts
LOS ANGELES - A deadline is nearing to avoid a historic strike by the performers who supply voices for video games.
Negotiators have until Friday to hammer out an agreement with video-game voice talent to prevent the first-ever such work stoppage.
Voice work has become a lucrative sideline for actors. It has also become a badge of prestige for a video-game company to convince a well-known performer to lend his or her voice to a high-profile title.
So full of prestige that Samuel L. Jackson, for instance, accepted his Video Game Award for best human male voice performance on Dec. 14, 2004. Yes - thespians garner awards for their performances there as well now... And Samuel now is coveted by all the big time game producers... Long gone are the days of Pac Man with BARELY any sound at all...!
The actors are represented in the dispute by two unions, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
On Friday, the present contract between the unions and the major video-game publishers will expire. It has already expired twice, and there will be no third extension – raising the possibility of a strike.
"It's 50/50 right now," an insider told the Daily Variety trade paper on Thursday. "It really could go either way."
One key sticking point in the talks is apparently the issue of residuals. The current deal does not have any provisions that allow actors to share in the profits of a successful game.
Instead, it mandates only a scale of minimum payments.
The unions are eager to hammer out an agreement on residuals, given that some games can pull in more money than a blockbuster movie.
The popular Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, for instance, pulled in more than $250 million US in sales last year.
That game starred the likes of Peter Fonda, James Woods, Wil Wheaton (who also does the voice of one innocent Aqualad on the cartoon TEEN TITANS!) and Samuel L. Jackson, who won a Video Game Award for his performance as Officer Frank Tenpenny.
Publisher Electronic Arts set a new benchmark earlier this year for voice talent when it announced that Marlon Brando, James Caan and Robert Duvall would appear in its upcoming adaptation of The Godfather.
Last Updated Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:46:41 EDT CBC Arts
LOS ANGELES - A deadline is nearing to avoid a historic strike by the performers who supply voices for video games.
Negotiators have until Friday to hammer out an agreement with video-game voice talent to prevent the first-ever such work stoppage.
Voice work has become a lucrative sideline for actors. It has also become a badge of prestige for a video-game company to convince a well-known performer to lend his or her voice to a high-profile title.
So full of prestige that Samuel L. Jackson, for instance, accepted his Video Game Award for best human male voice performance on Dec. 14, 2004. Yes - thespians garner awards for their performances there as well now... And Samuel now is coveted by all the big time game producers... Long gone are the days of Pac Man with BARELY any sound at all...!
The actors are represented in the dispute by two unions, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
On Friday, the present contract between the unions and the major video-game publishers will expire. It has already expired twice, and there will be no third extension – raising the possibility of a strike.
"It's 50/50 right now," an insider told the Daily Variety trade paper on Thursday. "It really could go either way."
One key sticking point in the talks is apparently the issue of residuals. The current deal does not have any provisions that allow actors to share in the profits of a successful game.
Instead, it mandates only a scale of minimum payments.
The unions are eager to hammer out an agreement on residuals, given that some games can pull in more money than a blockbuster movie.
The popular Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, for instance, pulled in more than $250 million US in sales last year.
That game starred the likes of Peter Fonda, James Woods, Wil Wheaton (who also does the voice of one innocent Aqualad on the cartoon TEEN TITANS!) and Samuel L. Jackson, who won a Video Game Award for his performance as Officer Frank Tenpenny.
Publisher Electronic Arts set a new benchmark earlier this year for voice talent when it announced that Marlon Brando, James Caan and Robert Duvall would appear in its upcoming adaptation of The Godfather.
Bonjour Mon Cher Luciano,
I had no idea that actors were getting into being the voices of games! I am not into those kind of games so didn't even know they had voices! lol I remember the days of Pac Man!! Just bleeps and certian noises when you get one of the bonus items, or get eaten by a ghost! lol
Actors actually being the voices of games! Wow, that is pretty neat!
I think Michael Dorn has a GREAT voice. So does Keith Hamilton Cobb.
I would think it would not be easy to be the voice of a character ONLY. They would have to project all the personality, emotions, and everything that character is into the voice! They are not acting with their bodys were they can use body language to speak as well.
The animators will make the characters do that later. Thier voices have to mirror what the character will be doing in the story line also. I don't know if they have any kind of visual aid to help them see what the character is doing. It might be a bit easier if they do. Still I would think it would be very difficult.
I know less about the NHL than I do about games! lol Too bad they didn't get the deal they were hoping for.
I didn't think I had much to say, but as it turns out I did. lol
Hmmmm that seems to happen to me a lot! I keep going, and going like the Energizer Bunny sometimes. :D
Merci Luciano!
((HUGS))
Countess
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I had no idea that actors were getting into being the voices of games! I am not into those kind of games so didn't even know they had voices! lol I remember the days of Pac Man!! Just bleeps and certian noises when you get one of the bonus items, or get eaten by a ghost! lol
Actors actually being the voices of games! Wow, that is pretty neat!
I think Michael Dorn has a GREAT voice. So does Keith Hamilton Cobb.
I would think it would not be easy to be the voice of a character ONLY. They would have to project all the personality, emotions, and everything that character is into the voice! They are not acting with their bodys were they can use body language to speak as well.
The animators will make the characters do that later. Thier voices have to mirror what the character will be doing in the story line also. I don't know if they have any kind of visual aid to help them see what the character is doing. It might be a bit easier if they do. Still I would think it would be very difficult.
I know less about the NHL than I do about games! lol Too bad they didn't get the deal they were hoping for.
I didn't think I had much to say, but as it turns out I did. lol
Hmmmm that seems to happen to me a lot! I keep going, and going like the Energizer Bunny sometimes. :D
Merci Luciano!
((HUGS))
Countess
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