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…
"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…
"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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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 l…
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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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…
Game 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 been released at Telltale. Commenting on this exciting project, Mark Estdale, casting and voice director at Ou…
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: NESTA
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