Hi I'd thought I'd open up this thread in order to give a brief rundown of the voices in game and to give thanks to some of the voice actors who worked on NW (some of which are on this forum). For those of you who have played NW extensively the past few weeks, this thread might be superfluous unless your considering modding.
This thread is intended also to address some requests I've gotten over the past few years asking me for new sounds for both Male and Female and also to give potential modders/players a basic look into a smaller part of the game that can make/brake the atmosphere.
As some of you know I did the original male voice sounds for M&B and Warband while Jade did the female sounds.
At the time I only had a basic SM58 mic and a Behringer 100 preamp and not much skill in editing.
My work during the past few months has been comprised of project managing the voice acting for NW, ie: finding/paying/organizing voice actors into studios in their region and organizing them with lines of text and correlating with the dev team etc. Special thanks to Joseph Bracken and Nick Redfield for helping out in this area in their respective regions (England and Russia). Also special thanks to Krzysztof Popiel who did some work with us in the initial recordings at a studio in England.
The languages included/spoken in NW currently are : English, French, German, Russian and Ukrainian
11 voice actors in total helped in creating the voices in game.
There are about 2 -3 voice actors per nation (2 male 1 female voice) (Austria/Prussia has 1 Male and 1 Female voice).
NW has a bunch of new voice combat sounds ie: Deaths/screams/yells/grunts and warcries.
While some of the original sounds have been retained, we felt that many of the original sounds such as warcries felt out of place for the period and so we removed them.
For a time NW had no generic warcries whatsoever so we experimented by adding a few different ones from 3 different voice actors (Joseph Bracken, Samuel Port and myself). It was hoped that the newer and shorter generic warcries would hopefully not flood the listeners ears while sufficiently blending into the background rather than being to much in the foreground.
Multiple new death sounds have been added and are no longer from just a single voice actor. In addition to this, thanks to Georgina Woodford, who did the English and French female sounds, we now have new female death and grunt sounds (which plenty of people have been pm'ing me for).
Rejenorst Media is not a pro studio business solution or anything so don't expect Hollywood but a collaboration of amateur voice actors who have or had some experience in voice acting.
Who's who:
This thread is intended also to address some requests I've gotten over the past few years asking me for new sounds for both Male and Female and also to give potential modders/players a basic look into a smaller part of the game that can make/brake the atmosphere.
As some of you know I did the original male voice sounds for M&B and Warband while Jade did the female sounds.
At the time I only had a basic SM58 mic and a Behringer 100 preamp and not much skill in editing.
My work during the past few months has been comprised of project managing the voice acting for NW, ie: finding/paying/organizing voice actors into studios in their region and organizing them with lines of text and correlating with the dev team etc. Special thanks to Joseph Bracken and Nick Redfield for helping out in this area in their respective regions (England and Russia). Also special thanks to Krzysztof Popiel who did some work with us in the initial recordings at a studio in England.
The languages included/spoken in NW currently are : English, French, German, Russian and Ukrainian
11 voice actors in total helped in creating the voices in game.
There are about 2 -3 voice actors per nation (2 male 1 female voice) (Austria/Prussia has 1 Male and 1 Female voice).
NW has a bunch of new voice combat sounds ie: Deaths/screams/yells/grunts and warcries.
While some of the original sounds have been retained, we felt that many of the original sounds such as warcries felt out of place for the period and so we removed them.
For a time NW had no generic warcries whatsoever so we experimented by adding a few different ones from 3 different voice actors (Joseph Bracken, Samuel Port and myself). It was hoped that the newer and shorter generic warcries would hopefully not flood the listeners ears while sufficiently blending into the background rather than being to much in the foreground.
Multiple new death sounds have been added and are no longer from just a single voice actor. In addition to this, thanks to Georgina Woodford, who did the English and French female sounds, we now have new female death and grunt sounds (which plenty of people have been pm'ing me for).
Rejenorst Media is not a pro studio business solution or anything so don't expect Hollywood but a collaboration of amateur voice actors who have or had some experience in voice acting.
Who's who:
Nick Redfield - Regional PM for Russia
Evgen 'Chur' Kucherov - Russian voice M / Ukrainian voice M
Nick's page on soundcloud, Nick mentioned that: "There's nothing really important there, but I'll surely upload all stuff I have soon after I finish this semester and pass exams."
http://soundcloud.com/freezegear
Who is on the forum as CHUR and does the Warband live music packs
Warband Live Music: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=156545.0
Olena Vanina - Russian voice F/ Ukrainian voice F
Chur's wife who is also a TV journalist in the Ukraine.
Vladimir Kozubsky - Russian Voice M
Whose deep voice puts mine to shameThanks to Nick for putting us in touch and helping to translate.
Joseph Bracken - English voice M/ Combat Voice/Tutorial/ Regional PM for England
Vladimir and his band went on tour and has just came back.
Nick has (with permission) uploaded some of Valdimir's songs to SoundCloud (link below).
http://soundcloud.com/house-of-culture
WOMEN FIGHT WITH SWORDS!!! MEN FIGHT WITH CANNON!!!
Charlie Bloomer - English voice M
A military man I hear... though I can't remember if that's the case.
Georgina Woodford - English voice F/ French voice F / Combat voices
Special thanks to Georgina as she had 3 major and difficult voice parts to do.
Rebolj Herve - French voice M
When he came into the studio he seemed shy but when he yelled we stood to sing La Marseillaise.
Jeremy Faucomprez - French Voice M
Jeremy is the creator of the HL2 Underhell mod. Special thanks for taking the time to help us out.
Samuel Port - Combat Voicehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJuw8uuG2Jc <- with Joseph Bracken's voice
Evi Stender - German voice F
All you need to know is that she's been in a warzone
Rejenorst - German M / Combat voice
www.rejenorst.com
