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64: Giving Games a Voice with Sarah Elmaleh

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Localization in Voice Acting

The main questions, the biggest questions you can answer for an actor are like, who am I talking to? What's, what's my relationship with them? Where are we? How far apart are we? What has just happened? What's about to happen? Stuff like that. That's all things that your actor is either going to have to make best guesses at or you can just answer and explain. If someone's like teasing someone and the reaction is to shut me up, then I'll start just like needling and making something up for them to give an honest reactionLike you, shut up, you know, whatever that is. So like it's been faster for me to just

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