I wanted to post my thoughts on AX Idol's Voice Acting this year much earlier (excitement, relevant timing, minimizing FRIKKIN' HUGE PAGE STRETCHING), but really wanted to give the talented folks some front page recognition! Curse this 1 FP post per 2 weeks!

Newgrounds Voice Overs Who've Made Waves @ AX Idol

2007
Winner - Rina-chan

2008
Finals - Egoraptor
Winner - Cerise Panda <--- voices for Resident Evil Pwanchi Series!

2009
Close Contender - Tomamoto
Close Contender - Princess Aurora <--- make her voice for more stuff, darn it!
Close Contender - Hnilmik
Winner - Sonicmega <--- voiced in LEFT 4 SPEED 2!

2010
Close Contender - Hnilmik
Finals - BlueSentaiHero <--- voices for Resident Evil Pwanchi Series!
Finals - Hathor Liderc <--- apparently, he doesn't get coauthored for stuff...
Finals - Darkwolf <--- voices for AWESOME stuff like H.E.L.L. and VG Exiles!

EXPLANATION on "CLOSE CONTENDERS"
Almost every year, the folks running the competition would show a "Look at the tough competition our finalists had to go up against!" clip reel video before the finalists did their thing. There can only be 5 finalists per division. Usually, beyond the more "interesting to look at" entries (screaming and funny+intense faces look cool), moments outta really good performances are in them. Here's this year's:

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Of the 2 years I've participated, I showed up in 2 of 'em in a row, even when my performance this year was a bad shot featuring a lot of head room ( [4:01]-ish)! Though, even if I didn't show up in this year's clip reel, I'm personally very proud of my performance~ While the other girls were doing namby-pamby, weepin' monologues of sadness and "lukewarm" performances from Ouran, I chose to do a monologue by a Chinese psycho lesbian ninja, Soifon from Bleach, combining both the fury I'm best known for in my roles (admit it: a LOT of my better known roles feature screaming and rage) and the intensity that more experienced voice peoples can pull off.

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(Haha, you can see Rubberninja in this shot! He's right next to Princess Aurora~)

By the way, I LOVE Princess Aurora's reaction to my performance in this video! I rarely ever, if not never, EVER get to see how my performance affects others while in the moment. It made me REALLY happy to see how I can make others happy with "whoa"-ness~ Here's to doing more awesome performances!

Before folks say stuff like "EGO AND TOMAR WERE GANKED!!", remember that this voice acting "competition" is more like an audition... An audition for a studio more known for working on anime stuff and this is at an anime convention. Anime, anime, anime. Oh, they know that there're lots of talented voice peoples out there. They just pick the "winners" based on what they're looking for (which is typically people who can easily voice for anime characters) and each year, they look for different things.

Key word, again, for emphasis: Audition. Who the heck would cast someone like me, known for bossy-angry-crazy roles, as the leading lady of the anime equivalent of Twilight?

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You can be the best voiceover in the world, but if you don't fit, it'll just be jarring.

(BTW: I only read a few volumes of Vampire Knight before getting frustrated with all the flashbacks. Yuki was supposed to be a tough girl with a person-beating stick, but I saw more "OHH GAAWWDD, THE VAMPIRE IS TOUCHING ME PROVOCATIVELYYY" than person-beating.)

I'm a bad girl.

Animating!

So, I've been taking this Photoshop/Flash class for the past... 4-ish weeks now. Next week is the end of my class. Animating is fun in an ow-my-eyes-have-been-stuck-on-this-scr een-forever kind of way. I'm tempted to say that I'll be animating more down the road~ Simple things to be more familiar with flash, but animating~

My first ever flash will be 30-60 seconds long, consist of lots of tweening, made in 1 week (or less), and feature my li'l Bioshock project. A trailer at best. I have lots of questions about how will I be able to upload it to Newgrounds without smashing my copy of Flash, but my hands are beginning to hurt from all the animating and typing.

Final Thoughts

Money, money, money. Education costs money, living costs money, staying sane costs money. Oooyyy... Been stressed, but hanging in there! Lots of prioritizing to keep everything together!

I suck at responding to emails and PM's at the moment because of the above issue. I kid you not. I apologize.

:T No voice sample reel this time. I have my reasons--If you wanna see what I can do, you can check out older newsposts and/or just watch the stuff I voiced for. Like me voicing for Ultimecia in Sanity Not Included (now on Machinima.com)!

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Is that GuitarmasterX7 I hear~?

If you read this far, I made heart-hands at you!