Seeking to voice-act villains

2007-10-09

I have a dream (one of many), and this particular dream is to do voice-acting for one or more villainous characters within particular works of fiction. Specifically, I'm interested in providing the voice for a downright malevolent, outright malicious Artificial Intelligence who may or may not be sadistic, but who definitely tortures humans and makes them suffer. I may or may not get away with it — that's up to the story, I'm just here to provide entertainment and thorough characterization. :)

Why the interest? Is it because I'm so often associated with being a "good guy" that I want to explore some "darker side"? Not necessarily, altho that is a fun notion — rather, it's because I think I have the intonation and depth of delivery for it, and 'cuz I've been enthralled by a string of "evil" (in quotation marks, for they judge themselves not like we do) electronic lifeforms… from the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, to Erasmus of Dune, to MAL in Captain Planet, to SHODAN in System Shock, to Lore in Star Trek: The Next Generation, to my fave so far, Walton Simons (nanoaugmented human) in Deus Ex, I have this affinity for the binary and bionic baddies. It gets even more sinister if they're extremely cringeworthy due to humankind's own faults, as one of sci-fi's hallmark examples, the Allied Mastercomputer from "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" demonstrates.

So, I'm casually looking for opportunities. If you know a project you'd like me to have a look at, please drop me a line!

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Smiley Barry 2007-10-10 at 12:12 PM UTC

Well, once I get a decent iMac instead of my stupid PC, and move to a safer ISP that has smooth communications with Second Life, I may go ahead to Machinima :-) .

I'll drop ya an email if all goes well! ^.^

Ina Centaur 2007-10-14 at 7:48 PM UTC

melon snow + this tim burton-ish doughface pic = this lipsynced fan karaoke vid ^.~

(i think that's the closest i can find online… to torley sounding evil.)

skribe Forti 2007-10-17 at 4:32 AM UTC

Actually, Torley, that is inspired. If I get a chance to do some writing over the next few weeks I'll drop you a script.

Torley 2007-10-27 at 11:40 AM UTC

@Smiley: Thanks!

@Ina: OMG… how did you do that? That is FREAKY!!!! The way you made the text scroll and flash looks like a classic C64 demo; I like that a lot.

@skribe: Thanx, I look forward to what you come up with!

A current influence of mine right now is GlaDOS from Portal… what a great antagonist!

brawlerdude93 2008-12-01 at 5:50 PM UTC

I am working on a Batman series in Super Smash Bros Brawl. There are many, MANY villains in that, but at the moment, i am in need of a Joker. interested? check out one of my vids on YouTube

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