Voices and Moves
Cheshire Concept
As production on Alice 2 continues, the development team at Spicy Horse is making awesome progress. By many measures, we’re ahead of schedule – though it’s still too early to get overconfident.
While the internal team is cranking along on all cylinders, there are a few things we could use some outside “assistance” with. Namely, voice actors and motion actors for reference and actual use in the game. We have all our “bulk” needs covered – but are looking for a few special people IN SHANGHAI who can assist with lots of impromptu stuff related to VO and acting. These elements might go into the game or simply be used as temporary reference.
For voice actors – we’re looking for people (men, children, women) with BRITISH accents (real ones please). This will be used as placeholder – or could possibly make it into the final game (depending on quality, etc).
For stage actors – we’re looking for people with expressive faces and bodies – which will be used for animation reference and/or local motion capture sessions. Our animation director has requested “foreigners” for this role because she feels Chinese people and foreigners move differently.
If you are IN SHANGHAI and possessing actual Voice Acting or Stage Acting talent, the please contact me directly. You can do so by posting a comment to this article – it won’t be seen unless I approve it (which I don’t do for queries like this).
Tags: actors, alice 2, motion capture, rotoscoping, Shanghai, voice acting
Creepy British accents are a must!
This may be unrelated to the post, but…
With this talk about Alice II, and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, I just started replaying the original Alice…and I had this rather vague idea to build a modification of an existing engine (say Valve’s Source) to pay homage to the original game. Obviously there are probably plenty of licensing issues and such, but I was curious what you personally thought of an idea like this. I obviously wouldn’t move forward with an idea like this unless you approved of it!
I love the blog and am very thankful for the updates. Alice is in my top game list and has been since release. You’re art and style amaze me every time i see just about anything that you create.
I just wanted to say thank you for your effort not only in creating, but in also keeping the public up to date.
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To briefly comment on the post by “Barnes”. The games with large cult followings that have had remakes always excite me, even if the game is essentially a direct copy with updated graphics and animations. (Conker comes to mind) I would love to see a re-make of Alice, but i of course fall into the category of cult fan, as i have pushed that game onto every gamer ive ever met and have played it many times through.
I’ll miss the Cheshire’s original voice; it’s permanently burned into my brain.
Things I wish I could have/do:
-Have a British Accent (capitalized because it’s a proper noun in more than one sense).
-Make video games for a living.
Alas, a lowly physics/engineering major such myself has pretty much zero programing skills. You’d think my school would force me to take a programming class, but nope! Toh well.
Darn, right accent, wrong continent! I’ll keep checking back though in case you consider taking submissions via the web
Hopefully You’ll Be Able To Find Someone With Good As A Voice As The Previous Cheshire Cat Had.Many People Including Myself Are Hoping For It.
Anyway I Don’t Think It’s A Good Idea To Look Strictly In Shan. You Should Try Looking In A Little Wider Of An Area, Like Europe Perhaps?
Give ‘im new tats and a mechanical hind limb.
Oh and if Roger Jackson isn’t voicing CC this time aorund I will personally come to Shanghai and cry unashamedly for hours outside your offices till you give in! And that’s that!
My husband has stated he will be terribly disappointed if the same voice actor isn’t used for the Cheshire Cat.
I have to agree – that man had a voice that had a purring undercurrent and vague condensation that only a cat trying to teach a human could make.