We’ve been waiting a little while to post this, but now that the dust has settled we’re pleased to announce that we provided VO for ‘The Deep’, a new experience for Sony’s Project Morpheus. This was a hugely exciting project for us, and we are thrilled to have been involved in something as exciting as VR.
Hello again everyone! It’s been a little while since our last update, but we promise this week is worth it. We are delighted to announce our involvement in Arena of Fate by Crytek, having provided casting and VO productions services for the title. Even more excitingly, you can sign up for the Beta right now, and play the game soon, so you can experience the fun we had in the studio firsthand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzsCFGzpdU0
Today, Part 1 of the PSVita version of Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse arrives on western shores. We had an excellent time providing casting, recording and post production services on the game, and are extremely excited to see it reach an even wider audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uem0wItZVaQ
OMUK are delighted to have contributed to 2 of the titles nominated for this year’s Develop Awards, taking place in Brighton on July 9th.
For Audio Accomplishment nominee Wonderbook: Book of Potions, OMUK worked closely with SCE London Studio, providing casting and recording for the title, and had tremendous fun in the process.
For Use of Narrative nominee Broken Sword 5, we were thrilled to reunite with Revolution Software, providing casting, recording, and post production services on the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uem0wItZVaQ
For the full list of nominations, click here. Congratulations to everyone nominated, and best of luck at the awards!
The team at OMUK are delighted to have collaborated with Kalypso Media on the upcoming Tropico 5. We provided casting, voice direction and voice recording for the return of El Presidente, and this trailer speaks for the fun we had bringing him to life.
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It’s an exciting day for Telltale fans, as the second episode of ‘The Wolf Among Us’, the hotly anticipated continuation of Telltale’s Fables series, has emerged on digital platforms worldwide. OMUK was delighted to provide one of the newly introduced characters in Episode 2, Georgie Porgie! We provided casting and recording for the game at OMUK. The wonderful Kevin Howarth was selected for the role, and Telltale joined us to direct the recording. On OMUK’s side, Ben Jones viewed the session, with Engineers Juanma Delfin and Vicky Prentice taking care of the recording. You can catch a glimpse of Kevin’s superb performance alongside the rest of the game’s cast in this trailer!
Acting for Interactive with Mark Estdale: A practical session for interactive designers and actors. The session explores and gets under the hood of writing, design and acting for interactive media.
Mark Estdale is a leading voice director for video games. In 1996 he founded OMUK a well known and pioneering production company specialising in voice recording for games. Mark designs recording studios and software specifically for interactive production, and he teaches actors in the art of acting for interactive media at RADA and The Drama Centre London. He runs regular workshops on acting for video games via utterbrilliance.com. He is also a regular public speaker and video game ambassador. His recent work includes work on J.K. Rowling’s Wonderbook: Book of Potions for Sony London, Broken Sword 5: The Serpent’s Curse, Goodbye Deponia, The Crew, Killzone Shadowfall, Rambo the Game, The Wolf Among Us and Diggs Nightcrawler for the Oscar winning animation studio Moonbot.
Sunday 12th January, 2pm – 5pm, Gulbenkian, Canterbury
Find Mark on twitter @3571
For all Wonderbook, Pottermore and J.K. Rowling fans the release date for Wonderbook: Book of Potions is 31 December 2013. The game was cast and recorded at OMUK. The fabulous Glen McCready and Emma Tate were selected for the roles and all the voice directors in the OMUK stable lent a hand: Jo Green, John Dower, Delyth Thomas and Mark Estdale. Engineers Juanma Delfin and Vicky Prentice took care of the recording.
Wonderbook: Book of Spells and Diggs Nightcrawler developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe – London Studio, and cast and recorded by the OMUK team are two of the five finalists for the TIGA 2013 Game Industry Awards: Best Audio in a Game. Congratulations to SCEE London and Diggs developer Moonbot for the nomination. Best of luck!
The TIGA Games Industry Awards party will take place on November 6th 2013 at Pinewood Studios. Book your tickets here: TIGA Awards
OMUK founder Mark Estdale is teaming up with Mike Csurics at this year’s Game Sound Con in Los Angeles for a special on empowering performance for voice recording in video games.
Sun Nov 03, 11:45-12:45
Advanced VO Capture
(Michael Csurics, Mark Estdale) The standard recording studio, recording software and recording methods were never designed for recording voice for games. You can hammer the round peg into the square hole but you can also change the rules. This session is about changing the rules. This is a practical toolbox of takeaways from the immersive recording methodologies developed to empower creativity when recording for complex RPGs, Adventures and subtle narrative driven games.
