Mark Estdale contributes to Develop Magazine’s March 2012 article on outsourcing.
The informative article from the pen of Craig Chapple, "Inside Outsourcing", explores the pros and cons of outsourcing.
Read the full article here
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The informative article from the pen of Craig Chapple, "Inside Outsourcing", explores the pros and cons of outsourcing.
Read the full article here
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We were featured in the January 2012 issue of Develop Magazine. The article titles "Direct Action" scratches the surface of the methods we’ve been developing to empower directors, studios and actors in producing truly subtle, real and connected dialogue for video games. It is one thing to talk about what we’re doing, but the nicest thing about the work we’re doing is that results always speak…
Another great review. http://kotaku.com "Driver: SF seems like it’s a crime game but the little dialogue moments that occur when you possess random cars on the roads of San Francisco turn it into this wonderful celebration of our quotidian experiences on the road. And yet how profound and emotional moments those are… it sounds so right, so jarring, so funny and sometimes so sad all at once to hear the rage, the hysteria…
It’s good getting the word out about working with actors for video games but the quote of throwing a producer out of the studio for having a laptop is not Mark’s big mouth but a misquote. Game producers with laptops can rest easy! See the full article next month online at Audiomedia.com or go buy the latest issue of Audio Media Magazine from a good newsagent.
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Mark Estdale does a candid Q&A with John Keefer for Game Culture.com. See also The Escapist: Developers need to cast actors sooner.
Mark Estdale: "From my experience the teams that produce good voice work are simply those lead by senior decision makers who are passionate about, and understand the power of voice (and audio) and they factor into their schedules and their budgets what is needed to facilitate results….
Mark Estdale was interviewed along with Side’s Andy Emery and David Sobolov by Keith Stewart for the Guardian Gamesblog.
"Mark Estdale, director at casting and voice recording agency, Outsource Media, has been working for ten years on a system to provide voice over actors with a quick-n-dirty frame of reference for their characterisations.
"What the actor needs is something at the point of performance that they ca…
"The more things change …the more they stay the same. Outsource Media UK’s Mark Estdale looks at how the audio scene has changed in the past decade, and how it’s still fighting the same battles now…"
Not quite fighting the same battles but still there are battles to be fought…
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