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Voice actors have to be careful, though, because professional mics are super-sensitive and can even pick up clothing movement. Sometimes, though, they spontaneously do movement or poses to get into character. How much method acting is done in the studio? Did you actually throw a pen at Raz’s voice actor to spur his surprised groan in this cutscene?ĪD: No. We really wanted his tone and lines reflect his growth mixed with his uncertainty in this scene. Potentially a minor spoiler: you learn very early on that, just a few years prior, he was a massive coward. You’ll learn throughout the story that Claude has had to train himself to speak with confidence to rally his squad.
What was the direction here?ĪD: That’s actually a huge part of Claude’s personality! This is Squad E’s first *real* engagement – they’ve been training for a while, but they haven’t been a part of an actual battle until now. Throughout this cutscene he’s brimming with confidence and ability, but towards the end he whispers, “We can do this” under his breath, almost like he needs to reassure himself. He uses more ‘naughty’ words and a more aggressive tone to support his attitude.įor reference, the original Japanese doesn’t explicitly have the phrase ‘Sack up, Commander,’ but it fit both his English characterization and (just as important) the lip-flaps.Ĭlaude seems to have an interesting split in his personality. Trying to match this effect exactly in English might have come across as a bit too affected or ‘tryhard’, so instead we kept close to the actor’s natural range while making him sound like an American delinquent. Sometimes that means the English and Japanese voices will sound very similar – Claude is a great example of that – but other times the English analogue to a Japanese voice or personality won’t sound exactly the same.įor example, Raz’s Japanese voice actor has a kind of deep growl to his voice – he’s a delinquent with some swagger. We want this to look as natural as possible, so we’d rather avoid the old English-dubbing trope of character animations being completely mismatched to their English VO.ĪD: We’ll do our best in matching English voice talent with their character. If we just used a direct translation or our first pass at a localised script, we’d likely end up with a script that’s very difficult to match to character animations.
How does a Japanese script turn into an English VO?ĪD: In general, we’ll provide translations for the English voice director, then the director has to slightly alter the lines in order to match them to character lip flaps. We also had to consider the length of the subtitles for each spoken phrase each line needed to be short enough in subtitles to look presentable, but the audio needed to be as long and drawn out as possible to match the heavy, deflated tone in the scene. However, Claude’s Japanese VO for this opening scene had so many extended pauses that it took a lot of work to match the English script and VO to the Japanese even without animation to worry about.
Since you record to match lip flaps, is it kind of a nice break for the team when you have a scene like this without any animation?ĪD: In most cases yes, it’s nice to not worry about matching animations. The prologue cutscene starts with a black screen while Claude, the game’s lead character, talks over it. We kept the exact same team members present throughout the recording process to ensure consistency in the VO’s direction. We also had some re-recordings to fine-tune parts of the localization we wanted to improve. How long was the English VO recording process for the game?Īndrew Davis: We spent about 10 weeks total in the studio, starting with the untimed lines – VO with no timing restrictions – and then moving on to the Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR), the scenes where we match voices to characters’ lip-flap. Today though, we’re diving deep into the voice direction for the English voice-over with Sega Associate Localisation Producer and lead for Valkyria Chronicles 4, Andrew Davis, using the game’s prologue cutscene as reference.
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Hello PlayStation community! Last month, we announced that Valkyria Chronicles 4 will be landing on Western shores on 25th September.Ī lot of work has been done to bring this incredible game to the West, including implementing full English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish subtitles, as well as recording a full English voice-over.įor fans of the original Japanese dub, dual audio tracks will be available in the full game, so you can switch back and forth at will.
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