Characters shouldn’t sound like actors, any more than they have to look like actors.
We have the tech to make anyone sound like anyone else. Make someone up. Target what this fictional person sounds like, in your head… so that any actor can drop in and record lines. You’ll still hire the same dozen people, for big-name games, because those actors are really good at performing different characters. They don’t need to be blessed with Billy West’s vocal chords to do eighteen distinct voices per project. And you don’t need to schedule them back into the studio to get this character to mumble the name of every new item the player can select. You’ll only spend their time on the cool stuff.
Characters shouldn’t sound like actors, any more than they have to look like actors.
We have the tech to make anyone sound like anyone else. Make someone up. Target what this fictional person sounds like, in your head… so that any actor can drop in and record lines. You’ll still hire the same dozen people, for big-name games, because those actors are really good at performing different characters. They don’t need to be blessed with Billy West’s vocal chords to do eighteen distinct voices per project. And you don’t need to schedule them back into the studio to get this character to mumble the name of every new item the player can select. You’ll only spend their time on the cool stuff.