Additional voices

[SmartyBoyboy]

I propose to you guys, that we add an additional voices section for voice actors who have done otherwise unspecified or unnamed roles in movies and TV shows, much like with the narrators section, with breaks for different languages maybe. Would you please do that, okay?

Thanks,
Max

[thomwim]

I'm interested. That way, we can decode the roles by voice matching, which I stink at.

[SmartyBoyboy]

We can both try our best; the credits list which actors are in it.

[TylerMirage]

That's a great idea, SmartyBoyboy, but we're already way ahead of you. That's an idea that we've been discussing amongst us mods/admins for quite some time now. We're still waiting on specifics and such, but it's something that we'll hopefully have up and running in the future. There's a lot of shows/games/movies/etc. that have a hefty amount of VAs under "additional voices" that we want to give recognition to, but quite a few other things need to fall into place first.

Originally Posted by thomwim

I'm interested. That way, we can decode the roles by voice matching, which I stink at.

That would make it easier, yes, but they way we have it planned out now, thomwim, is that we wouldn't assign specific characters to specific VAs. There would be no "decoding". For example, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs lists about 20 or so characters that are linked with specific VAs. It also has an "additional voices" list of more than two dozen VAs who are not assigned to specific characters. And we would not try to assign specific characters to them. It would be far too time-consuming and there would be far too great of potential for error. So it's an "all-or-nothing"-situation. We would either

a.) have to spend an inefficient amount of time trying to identify every. single. random. character. that a VA listed under "additional voices" (in every. single. game/movie/show that has "additional voices") might have voiced and risk not being able to identify all of them
OR (as we plan to do)
b.) we simply credit everyone listed under "additional voices" with one role. They would merely be credited with one role (the yet undetermined "Additional Roles"-image), because they're only credited as "additional voices".

Paul Eiding, Jess Harnell, Ariel Winter, etc., would have ONE "Additional Voices" credit from CwaCoM, for example.

So yeah, hopefully we'll have this feature functioning soon, but please be patient with us. There's a lot of other things we're all working on, and this - while it is a good idea - is not one of our primary priorities at the moment.

[thomwim]

On second thought, let's stick with plan B: the group of additional voices.

[OptimusSolo]

Originally Posted by thomwim

On second thought, let's stick with plan B: the group of additional voices.

you realize you have nothing to do with this decision right??

[thomwim]

Originally Posted by optimussolo

you realize you have nothing to do with this decision right??

d'oh!

[SmartyBoyboy]

No, thomwim has a good point. It would be to identify all of the characters' voices, and see who's who.

[TylerMirage]

Originally Posted by SmartyBoyboy

No, thomwim has a good point. It would be to identify all of the characters' voices, and see who's who.

An admirable quest, yes, but not one that would be easy or efficient to accomplish. With hundreds upon hundreds of movies/shows/games that have anywhere from five to three dozen VAs under "additional voices" that are not attached to a specific character, it would be illogical to try and assign random, unidentified roles to VAs. As I said above, it would be an all-or-nothing situation, and the "all" option is virtually impossible. Thus, "none" will probably be the course of action that we would take:

Originally Posted by TylerMirage

we simply credit everyone listed under "additional voices" with one role. They would merely be credited with one role (the yet undetermined "Additional Roles"-image), because they're only credited as "additional voices".

Paul Eiding, Jess Harnell, Ariel Winter, etc., would have ONE "Additional Voices" credit from CwaCoM, for example.

If Charlie Adler is blatantly credited as "Starscream", then it's obvious that we credit him as such. But if he is one of two dozen VAs under "additional voices", we're not going to spend time mulling through the roles to try and find an unidentified, random, inconsequential bit part that we may or may not be able to confirm. We would give him ONE ROLE as "additional voice" if he was listed as such.