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…
Super Saturday’s magnificent Team GB Olympic gold rush was preceded by a completely unrelated talk at the Royal Armouries by OMUK’s Mark Estdale on sound design and the sounds of war in video games.
Contrasting realism and sound for dramatic impact Mark took the audience on a sonic journey dipping into the Foley artist’s arsenal and torturing the audience with the sound of celery and demonstrating the po…
"Deponia’s tale of love, loss, and all-out comedy is a beautifully constructed piece of point-and-click heaven." "Fantastic writing and voice acting" Writes Gamespot’s Mark Walton.
Here is Mark’s video review of Deponia, the latest point and click adventure to get the OM treatment.
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MMORPGs were slower to adopt voice than other game genres. However, advances in technology and bandwith are increasingly helping to make voice in online games the norm. Jagex recently teamed up with dialogue specialists OM to put the first voices to quests in their flagship MMORPG, RuneScape. Jagex Audio Director Stephen Lord (right) and Mark Estdale (left) of OM talk over the issues involved.
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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.
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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.
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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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Check out the finished product developed by Jagex over at www.runescape.com
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With the new year comes new coffee. This season we’re celebrating with some of the finest South & Central American coffees. As usual we’ll be starting the studio’s day with a roasting and filling the air with the tantalizing aromas of these wonderful beans. To add to the coffee lovers delight, this season we’ve added a fabulous Gaggia espresso machine to the gourmet arsenal. Come be seduced!
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We were invited to completely recast and rerecord the voices for the Steve Ince scripted point and click adventure Captain Morgaine and the Golden Turtle. There’s little of the work we did on youtube as the original recordings dominate. I hasten to add we were not responsible for the original, just the rescue. Here’s Ali Dowling going through her paces at our London Studio.
The game is published by Reef Entertainment…