Captain SNES: The Audio, Something that could be marketable, yo!

Okay. I've come up with a brilliant idea! Something big and fantastic that hasn't really been done in webcomics before! Tell me folks, what's the one thing that is missing in almost every webcomic you read? How about...VOICES!

That's right. As of yesterday, I've decided to undertake a new project I call:

CAPTAIN SNES: THE AUDIO

I'm sure that the use of voices will add to the appeal of this already wonderful comic! Thing is, I know I'm no master actor, nor am I one of those abridgers that can do every single voice on the show...though I can do a great deal.

Which is why I'm counting on YOU, the fans, to lend your voices and enhance this comic, bringing it to greater heights!

Right now I am working on only the NARRATIVE portion of Captain SNES, which means that Alex and Ryan are both taken. I've also done a little of Kain and will soon be doing Max Force as well...but if anyone can come up with a better voice for Kain and Max Force, I'll be happy to give you the part. As of right now, I've done the first 275 comics.

While, I'm doing recording for the narratives, I'm going to be taking auditions. Here's who I'm specifically looking for.

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS
Alex Williams - Taken by me
Schrodinger -
Ryan Keene - Taken by my brother...who I will call "Luigi"
Soverign of Sorrow - I can't pretend I know who this will be (though personally I think it's Hope). The Sovereign's voice will be the toughest to pull off. Mainly because her voice will be blended in with the other sorrow-touched characters. The best thing I can think of is that moment where Riku+Ansem are merged together in Kingdom Hearts and speak at the same time. The difficult part is that the Sovereign's voice must speak at the same time as another character. This voice requires COMMITMENT.
Arrogance (Anne Robinson) - Teach.
Hatred (Zeromus) -
Cynicism (Alanis Morissette) -
Monkeyspank Virus - Luigi...though if anyone thinks they can do a better Monkeyspank voice, feel free.
Bob (Final Fantasy Legends) - Luigi


CHRONO TRIGGER
Crono - ...
Lucca - Cirno
Marle - TR Rose
Gato - Teach
Frog -
Ayla - Teach
Kino -
Magus - Electricstar
Crono’s Mom - Grace B.
Taban - Teach
Lara - Teach
Norstien Bekkler - Teach
Zeal -
Schala - Bearer of the Mask, yo!


FINAL FANTASY IV
Palom - Teach
Porom - Alisha
Cecil - Louis B.
Rosa
Kain - Teach
Rydia
Golbez - Louis B.
Fusoya - Teach
Edward - Teach
Cid - Teach
Edge - Louis B.
Milon
Kainazzo - Louis B.
Valvalis
Rubicante
Yang - Teach
Yang’s Wife - Also Teach
Cid’s Daughter -
Blue Dragon/Cid’s Wife
Corello - Electricstar
Giott - Teach
Luca
Sylph
Fat Chocobo - Teach
Prettiest Girl
Loneliest Boy - Teach
Elder
Black Mage
White Mage
Ted - Teach

LEGEND OF ZELDA
Zelda - TR Rose
Old Sage - Teach
Ganon - Teach
Seraphina (Fat Fairy) - Teach


CAPTAIN N: THE GAME MASTER
Kevin Keene - Electricstar
Princess Lara -
Duke -
Kid Icarus - No official appearance, but just in case...
Megaman -
Simon Belmont -
Gameboy -
Samus Aran (Comics only) -
King Charles -
Prince Lyle -
Videoland Princess (Kevin + Lana’s Daughter) -
Mother Brain
King Hippo
Eggplant Wizard - Teach
Dr. Wily - Teach
The Count - We're doing Sesame Street's the Count, not Count Dracula

POWER TEAM
Johnny Arcade - Electricstar
Max Force - Teach
Kuros - Electricstar
Tyrone - Louis B.
Kwirk -
Bigfoot -

VIDEOLAND OF OLDE
Bill - Louis B.
Larry Bird - Electricstar
Darth Vader - Louis B.
President Ronnie -
Karnov -
Dragon Ninjas -
White Mage (FF1) - Could be the same as the one from FF4
Michael Jordan -
The Real Kuros? -

N-FORCERS
Solid Snake - Electricstar
Samus Aran -
Ryu Hayabusa - Electricstar
Simon Belmont - Electricstar
Protoman/Blues -
Bionic Commander -

SUPER MARIO BROS.
Mario - Teach
Luigi -
Toads -
Toadstool/Peach -
Bowser/Koopa - Teach
Larry Koopa -
Morton Koopa Jr. - Electricstar
Wendy O’Koopa -
Iggy Koopa - Electricstar
Roy - Louis B.
Lemmy - Electricstar
Ludwig Von Koopa-
Braveshroom -

NEXUS
Spike McFang -
Gameboy Advance -
Gameboy Color -
Mike Haggar -
Dr. Wright -
Ness -
Pokey -
Ackman -
Godon -
Puzzle Wizard (from Captain N, but based off Tetris) -
April O’Neil -
Q-Bert -
Boogerman -
Daos, Sinistral of Terror - Teach
Amon, Sinistral of Chaos -
Gades, Sinistral of Destruction -
Erim, Sinistral of Death -
Arek the Absolute -
Molly -
Sailor Moon -
Sailor Mercury -
Sailor Mars -
Sailor Jupiter -
Sailor Venus -
Vegeta -
Goku -
Krile -
Clyde Arrowny -

MEGAMAN
Rock - I want the voice from Megaman 8...but hopefully with BETTER ACTING.
Roll -
Dr. Thomas Light - DO NOT give me the Megaman 8 version. He should sound more like the Sultan from Aladdin, not Elmer Fudd.
Dr. Albert Wily -
Bass/Forte -

OTHER
Gomez Adams
Desert Voices (Unknown, 11 total) - No doubt these are important voices. I don't want to cast anyone for the voices without Jay Dee's help.
Evil Otto (Berzerk) - No lines...maybe a blinking SFX will do?
Elayne - Teach
Tian - Teach again
Tristan - Teach yet again
Pixelated - Believe it or not, Teach
Kiara - I'll give you three guesses
Dulan - Yes, I do them all!
Sabin - Once again, Teach
Gau - Uwaaaooo! Teach do this voice too!




WHEW! Long-ass list. Feel free to pick a part while I zip through the narrations. Feel free to PM me if you're interested. Pick some parts and send me some clip samples. I'd like to go through this in chronological order, so a good place to start would be for the Act 1 characters.

Also, the purple characters are sorrow-touched. Meaning that either now...or at some point later on, the voice of the Sovereign will have to "match" up her voice with other characters. She never speaks alone. Note that our first sorrow-touched victim will be the Fat Chocobo, so she'll make an appearance early.

Let's see what you make of this!!

This post has been edited by Teach on Nov 8 2009, 03:54 AM

Pretty sure this was attempted before, back when we were on the Buzzcomix forums. Didn't work out so well...

Yes, but with a slight difference. I've got sound recording equipment. If there aren't any voice actors available, I'll just do the voices for narration only.

This post has been edited by Teach on Sep 5 2009, 10:24 PM

Captain's Log: Worked and voiced 436 pages of the narrative parts. Only 155 more pages to go!

I could probably get a good chunk of this done tonight or even tomorrow, depending on my brother's schedule...

Are you just doing the narrative, or the narrative and Alex (since he's the one giving it)?

Edit: Addendium:

My earphones have a microphone, but I have no idea how to use it. Could anyone point me to a windows program that does this easily?

I'm using Windows again because IE is required for certain classes.

This post has been edited by Spriteless Girl on Sep 6 2009, 10:48 PM

Right now I'm just doing the narrative. I'm Alex, my brother's Ryan. It goes by pretty quickly.

If I can get some more people into the project, I'll do Alex's spoken dialogue as well. My first step is to go through Act I.

As for recording, I use Adobe Soundbooth. However, I'm sure most Windows computers have a program called Sound Recorder (look under Start ---> All Programs ---> Accessories ---> Entertainment). As long as you've got a mike, you should be able to record and PRESTO! Instant voice recording in a neat little .wav file!

By the way, Spriteless Girl, who were you thinking of playing as?

Well, my voice comes in monotone or overacting (conversationally, I actually use a monotone), so Lucca with overacting, SoS in the monotone, and perhaps Roll or the littlest white mage in a falsetto...

I'd be very interesting in hearing these parts. PM me if you'd like to audition and I'll gladly give you my email address.

As for the Prettiest Girl, I'd say her lines sloooowlyyyy. Then run it at doublespeed. She'll sound like one of the Chipettes!

This post has been edited by Teach on Sep 7 2009, 05:11 AM

Hmmm... I have a decent voice. I'd love to try for Magus. Thank goodness for laptop mics or I wouldn't have one.

Go ahead and give it a go! PM me if you're serious about joining and I'll give you my email so you can send me your voice clips. I look forward to hearing your acting.

There used to be recordings of me voicing Mario somewhere. But looks like its a dead link now.

I could try something later. But ehish...I won't lie, I like the idea of what your attempting to do but a few things hurts my soul, audition wise.

This post has been edited by Dark Hawk on Sep 8 2009, 07:04 AM

It's dead? Dammit, I should have saved it.

Can you record it again? I'm sure we'd love to hear what you can do.

I'm pleased for the enthusiasm. But before I can give anybody the okay on anyone else's voices, I need to actually HEAR them first. You can either PM me so that I can give you an email to send the clips to. Or you can put them on Youtube and post a link.


By the way, Jay Dee. I'm almost afraid to ask this since I've done a LOT of recording for Ryan's voice already (I am now on Page 500)...but what kind of voice do you think Ryan should have? I'm asking mainly because from the way they talk with Alex occasionally calling Ryan, Junior or Skippy and what not...it appears to me that Ryan is younger than Alex...If you're not keen on spoiling details just PM me.

Also, would YOU be interested in doing any voices?

This post has been edited by Teach on Sep 8 2009, 03:02 PM

Oh...shit....This is a new development. Just got through reading 592.

Seems like not only do we have purple text, Omega energy and people who are sorrow touched, but also green text, Alpha energy and...people who are...balanced?

For the purple text, I was thinking of doing a double voice of the Sorrow-touched character with the Sovereign herself. But with green text...I'm not sure what I'm going to do. But maybe that's for another day.

I still have the audio file. Let me see if I can whip up something for Youtube or something.

EDIT: At least, I thought I had it... I'll keep searching for it.

This post has been edited by Red Silvers on Sep 8 2009, 08:11 PM

Captain's log. Started late. Ended up at 525. Will get there...eventually.

This post has been edited by Teach on Sep 9 2009, 02:46 AM

So this is reminding me slightly of "Gunnerkrigg Court Fan Project", but in a good way.

Incidentally, I have a few voices I think I could do, but I'll have to go back thru the comic a bit, pick some choice trial lines, and record.

I highly recommend saving all the pages in the comic. It takes a few days to do this, but in the end it's worth it. Just be aware that most of the comics, especially the later ones come in two or even three parts (Look for filenames that end in a + b).

Since the website that we used before to upload voice files is gone, whats a good way for me to get my voice to you?