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03 June 2010 |
Outsource Media has been nominated for the 2010 Develop Award
for Audio Outsourcer of the year. This is the third year we've
been nominated and in true form we'll be down for the dinner
and festivities
Develop Awards 2010
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27 April 2010 |
Outsource Media Joins TIGA (TIGA
Press Release)
TIGA, the trade association
representing the UK games industry, today announced Outsource
Media as its newest direct member.
Outsource Media was
founded in 1996 by Mark Estdale, one of the UK’s most
experienced casting and dialogue directors working in the
games industry. Outsource Media provides a creative full
dialogue production service from scriptwriting and adaptation,
casting, recording and post production to localisation. They
also produce bespoke sound design and music. The company has
recording studios in London and the North of England and a
team in Los Angeles. Outsource Media have worked on hundreds
of game titles from the Tales of Monkey Island to keenly
awaited launch titles for Sony’s PlayStation Move.
Mark
Estdale, Director at Outsource Media explains: “Outsource
Media’s focus has always been on bringing best audio practice
in TV, film, music and radio production to games. We are
innovating at the cutting edge of development and facilitating
truly cost effective high production values content. We are
pushing the creative boundaries in dialogue production,
establishing new, exciting, liberating and cost sensitive
production methods.”
On joining TIGA Mark adds: “The
TIGA community and TIGA events provide valuable and vibrant
forums for networking and creative discussion with industry
peers. Furthermore, for any industry to survive and flourish I
believe it is essential to have a strong and committed trade
body that can tackle key issues and effectively advance the
industry’s agenda to Government, media and other
stakeholders.”
Richard Wilson TIGA CEO welcomed
Outsource Media to TIGA: “Outsource Media offer a wealth of
experience and skill to any TIGA member looking to fully
harness the power of great dialogue in their games. Outsource
Media is also an example of a UK games company that is hugely
successful internationally, working for clients in the US,
Japan and Europe and creating jobs and wealth here in the UK.
We welcome Outsource Media to TIGA.”
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22 March 2010
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GameCulture Goes Inside the
Voice Actor's Studio.
Mark Estdale does a
candid Q&A with John Keefer for
Game Culture.com. See also
The Escapist: Developers need to cast actors sooner. (same
source)
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. They know."
Download a pdf copy of the Q&A
here
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05 March 2010 |
Voicing concerns: the problem
with video game acting.
Mark Estdale was interviewed along with Side's Andy Emery and
David Sobolov by Keith Stewart for the
Guardian Gamesblog.
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09 Feb 2010 |
Mark is the Guest
Speaker at the North American Actors Association's AGM
March 17 2020
"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."
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06 Oct
2009
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Develop Magazine Audio Feature
 "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...
...
view article
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27 Aug
2009 |
Outsource Media are swashbuckling with Telltale Games and Tales of Monkey Island
Outsource Media have been contracted to record various voice elements for the iconic franchise for
Telltale Games. Mark Estdale, voice and casting director at Outsource
Media, said "It was the craftsmanship in Day
of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Full
Throttle that seduced me into this industry in the first place, so
it's a real honour to now be working with Mike Stemmle and so many of
the legendary Lucas Arts team that hooked me back in the early 90's. The humour, the characters and the rich writing have us once
again chuckling our way through sessions."
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02 July
2009 |
Outsource Media participates in
the new Gamescom
exhibition at Cologne
Outsource Media will be participating in Europe’s largest trade
fair, Gamescom, which will this year be held in
Cologne in Germany from August 19-21. OM will be
in Hall 4.2 on Stand J22.
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08 June
2009 |
Outsource Media is again nominated for Develop Industry Excellence
Award for best Creative Outsourcing
 Outsource Media has again been nominated for a Develop
Industry Award in the category of Creative
Outsourcing. The Develop Industry
Excellence Awards are the only peer-voted
awards ceremony that focuses on the
achievements of the UK and European game
development industry. Outsource Media
was also nominated in 2008. This
year’s nomination highlighted the company’s
work on Telltale’s Wallace and Gromit’s
Grand Adventures. More information can
be found here:
http://issuu.com/develop/docs/develop_awards_2009
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30 March 2009
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Outsource Media on Grand Adventures with Wallace & Gromit and
Telltale GamesGame
Game
publisher Telltale Games selected leading UK voice production team,
Outsource Media, to cast and record the voices for its comedy game
series, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures. The first
of the four monthly episodes, based on Aardman Animations' popular
claymation films, has just released at http://www.telltalegames.com.
Commenting on this
exciting project, Mark Estdale, casting and voice director at
Outsource Media, said, "Telltale Games and
Aardman Animations are renowned masters of character, story and engaging humour. They are a dream
combination and we are delighted to bring our expertise
to the production mix."
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25 Nov
2008 |
Outsource Media secures Nesta
funding for innovative games audio software development project
Outsource Media, has been selected by Nesta and the Dare
to Grow project at Abertay University to host two interns to help
develop its innovative games audio toolset. Each
project lasts for six months and is due to be completed by mid July
2009. The interns have been selected based on their
success in the Dare to be Digital game development competition.
More information on the programme can be found here:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/dare-to-grow/
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