You're treating
drop your voice into the back of your throat and then yell for 4 hours and tell me how you feel after
The answer is in the question, you are comparing a salary to a fee, though I cannot really talk about the US situation.
You can't tell me with a straight face that when you think Niko Bellic you don't immediately hear his voice in your head.
Vocal strain comes from bad technique. You need to know what you are doing. That demands training.
send me the video and I'll listen to all 12 hours, no edits, no cuts
It didn't matter who they had cast you'd hear that voice now. It had no bearing on sales or profits.
Portions of this forum are extremely confused as to whether they actually support fair practices in the gaming industry.
Vocal strain comes regardless based on what's needed.
Lmao.
I'm sorry but for being the star of a game that brought in hundreds of millions in profits, yeah that's pretty shit pay.
"I'd love to hear a case for why contracted talent should make enough money to pay for their own health insurance and other stuff salaried employees take for granted."
I too live in a world where only one problem at a time can be talked about.
Both developers and actors could get residuals. It's not an either or scenario.
What I'm getting at is when something is successful, everyone wants a bigger piece. When something is not successful, you won't hear anyone willing to give anything back to recoup costs and start a new project.
We're still talking about Rockstar, right? Not some company that doesn't exist and is going to go bankrupt unless its employees fund its continued operations?
Don't want to derail thread even more and can't pm you. Send me a message and I'll send you a take folder, have nothing scheduled until a horror musical in may but I'll promise I will get back to you. Won't be without cuts but you can listen to the take folders that loops over and over until I get it right. Will probably hit ten hours at least.
That's a product of the current system. Games don't promote their voice acting talent. People have to look into it themselves.
As someone who is both the head of a game dev studio and (at one point, at least) a regularly working voice actor...this.
Both developers and voice actors should be treated better
Yeah let's just shit on them now
I can't speak for the US, but in many european countries, the risk of being independent is compensated by the price you ask. Being independent means having to pay everything ordinary devolved to an employer (unemployment/retirement taxes etc) and you won't be considered the same when evaluated for any kind of insurance, when looking for an appartement to loan or asking for any financial service. Form many worker in the performing arts domain, it also means having an agency taking a cut on your gain.
I laughed at that. The person who said that must be fucking delusional. I'm a 3D artist and I fucking wish I was making anywhere close that.
www.eurogamer.net
If he had months between sessions I'm sure he had time to do other things.
