Category Archives: Events

Mark Estdale speaking at Platform 2013

OMUK founder Mark Estdale is a guest speaker for the second year running at Platform 2013.  Mark’s session this year is on voice work in video games and focusses on methods developed to empower actors.

Casting Directors panel at RADA

Thursday 8 Nov 2012.  Casting directors Joyce Nettles and Jeremy Zimmermann join with Mark Estdale for a special panel on casting for 3rd year students at RADA.

It has been a long standing omuk goal to encourage the leading drama schools to take voice acting for video games seriously. Young talent is always needed in games yet the skills required to perform well are frequently either missing or misunderstood. Opening a dialogue with t…

Develop Awards Finalist 2012

We’re proud to have been selected as finalist for the 2012 Develop Award for Audio Outsourcer. This is a much valued acknowledgement of the passion, vision and commitment of a great team. Thanks to everyone who’ve trusted their games to us and thanks to the amazing army of fabulous actors who make our work a joy and throw themselves wholeheartedly and continually into the creative maelstrom.  

London 2012 Comic Con

Mark Estdale’s joining the Jagex team on 27 May at 11:00 at the London 2012 Comic Con for a rather exciting hands-on panel session all about voice and RuneScape. 

Voice in video games at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Mark Estdale, founder of OM was a guest speaker at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts last week.  "It is heartening to know that a leading drama school like RADA is taking a serious interest in performance for video games" said Estdale. "Games as an art form are the forefront of a revolution that is and will continue to  transform the way we are entertained, communicate and are educated."

OM workshop on audio track at Develop Conference 2011

Mark Estdale spoke at the July Develop conference in Brighton with fellow director Laurence Bouvard.  The practical workshop entitled ‘Keys to unlock believable performance’, showed dev teams how to get the best out of the actors on their production. The session was very well received and saw audio directors for Microsoft and Naughty Dog demonstrating their own considerable acting abilities!

 

Mark Estdale is speaking at the 2011 Develop Conference on “The Keys To Unlock Believable Performance.”

Mark will be speaking at this year’s Develop Conference in Brighton (19 to 21 July 2011):

The Keys To Unlock Believable Performance. 

"Mark Estdale, veteran casting and voice director leads OMUK, one of the industry’s most experienced game dialogue teams. He’s recently added characters to SOCOM 4, and completed work on Driver: San Francisco, TV Superstars and the English version of the critically …

Mark is the guest speaker at the North American Actors Association’s AGM March 17 2010

"I am thrilled to announce that Mark Estdale, highly respected voice casting director and producer in the video games industry, has agreed to be our guest speaker for our AGM. I am also very pleased that this event will be held at Central School of Speech and Drama in their New Studio. This event will be taking place on Wednesday March 17th 2010 from 6.30 – 8.30pm so consider this an early warning and get it in your diaries now.&quo…