Bring your characters to life. Lance Blair provides professional voice acting for gaming and animation, delivering range, emotion, and unforgettable performances to your video game and production.
Understanding Voice Over Character Techniques Key Voice Over Techniques for Character Creation Bringing a character to life requires using vocal mechanics to shape personality, emotion, and presence. Here are the core techniques voice actors use to build distinct, memorable characters: 1. Pitch and Vocal Placement (Resonance) Where a voice resonates in the body completely shifts…
Trading off Authenticity for Spontaneity with AI NPCs Today’s AI is shifting Non-Player Characters (NPCs) from talking models with fixed scripts into digital beings that can learn, remember, and react. However, with NPCs and AI there are tradeoffs between spontaneity and creative intent. Do you want your characters to be reactionary or do you want…
NPC Voice Acting: Nuance in Role Function Non-Player Characters (NPCs) are the backbone of any gaming world, providing everything from world-building flavor to essential gameplay mechanics. Generally, they fall into four primary categories, each with subcategories. For NPC Voice Acting, it is important to understand the function of each character in a video game as…
Villain voice over archetypes can be combined, or nuanced with personal backstories, motivations, and character development, making villains complex and sometimes even sympathetic figures in contemporary storytelling. There are no hard rules for playing any of these Ten Villain Types for Voice Acting. However, keeping these in mind and how the types could be combined can develop richer characters, than is the case if one is just playing “the bad guy.”