Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Angela Tran!
Angela plays Sok. A street kid from the Rust, their home planet’s orbital slum. Sok puts on a tough front, but will lose his cool in the face of a real threat.
This is Angela’s third and final spotlight, though she voiced a computer as well, there wasn’t enough lines to warrant another. Behind Vince and MAC, Angela had the third-most lines in the game, which makes her a pretty major part of Warp Frontier. I hope this isn’t the the project I get to work with here on!
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is James Goulding!
James, my youngest son, plays Ferdinand. Vince and Trish’s youngest boy, Ferdinand has spent his entire life in orbit, and relies on his brother Sam for support and guidance.
James was 6 at the time of recording, and was surprisingly natural and took direction very well. He was great at projecting, as 6 year olds seem to be constantly projecting. The only issue I had was getting him to face the microphone. He would say his lines then look at me right at the last word. To solve this I put a lego person behind the mic and had him say all his lines to it, which worked perfectly.
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Xuân Vinh Huynh!
Xuan plays Hebo. A street kid from the Rust, their home planet’s orbital slum. Hebo’s a tough risk taker, as long as his parents don’t find out about his actions.
Xuan’s line delivery was one of the few instances where I didn’t have to ask for any retakes. We were both surprised! It also helps that Xuan knows a thing or two about audio and I didn’t have to mess with his audio files at all, bar a slight tweak to levels. If you want a hassle free voice actor Xuan’s your guy.
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Ivona Kustudić!
Ivona plays Nina Mishkin. Commander of a Locan security team, Nina follows her orders to a point, but knows war contains shades of grey.
This is Ivona’s second role in Warp Frontier, playing a veteran soldier. Ivona had to push her voice a little harder on this role to achieve a husky quality. I had a little trouble cleaning and levelling some of these lines, but once I was put onto Izotope RX I was able to get a result I could drop into the game.
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Edwyn Tiong!
Edwyn plays various nefarious computers. Edwyn didn’t fit any of the existing roles, but I was glad to find a part, even though small, for his unique voice and delivery.
There are a lot of voice actors I’d like to work with again, which is especially true for the cast of Jolly Rover, but sometimes the roles aren’t there for them. After this game, if I get lucky enough to make another, I’ll likely have voices of various actors I’d like to work with in the forefront of my mind when I get to putting pen to paper.
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Angela Tran!
Angela plays Dahlia Tran, daughter of Trish and Titus. Just turned 13, She has grown up in the orbital slums of a planet devestated by a war that also took her father.
This was the first role Angela was cast in, before she put in a surprisingly good audition for Jet, then a couple of other minor roles. Angela plays a great angsty teen, and she really rose to the demands of the broad set of emotions written for Dahlia.
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Aimee Smith!
Aimee plays the ship’s computer. Consistent, reassuring, could easily be a condender for the role of Siri, Alexa, or “Hey Google”.
This is the first repeat Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlight. Several actors play multiple roles in the game, and as each role is different I’m showcasing them separately.
It’s amazing to hear Aimee slip into the ship’s voice in realtime, you would swear there was someone else in the room!
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Lazar Djukić!
Lazar plays General Stepan Kuznetsov. Disgraced for losing the Cetan war, his only path to redemption lies in erasing his past misdeeds.
Lazar brought a combination of crime boss and strongarm politician to the role of Stepan. Someone who can go from charming to threatening in the blink of an eye. For Lazar’s role I was again helped by Serbia-based Luka Barajevic, who recorded all of Lazar’s lines in his studio.
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Alison Craig!
Alison plays Dorothy Maguire. From a well to do Cetan family, but lost much fleeing to orbit during the flooding of Cetus, including her husband and daughter.
Alison is the only voice actor from Jolly Rover I was able to cast in Warp Frontier. Alison delievered a fantastic performance for Captain Butcher, and was the first person I thought of when I was casting for the role of Dorothy. I very much enjoyed working with Alison, and hope there’s a project in the future we can collaborate on.
I recommend checking out Alison’s podcast What’s the Chat, if you’re a fan of her work.
Next up in the Warp Frontier Voice Actor spotlights is Kufre Etim!
Kufre plays Robert ‘Rob’ Deng. A droid tech just getting started in the business, runs afoul of a droid behaving strangely while on a job in new Locan mine.
This role was the hardest to cast as there seems to be a fairly small pool of Australian voice actors with an African background. I used a couple of casting websites – Mandy, and StarNow. StarNow proved to be the best for finding Australian talent. I did all my casting for Jolly Rover on Voice123, but it seems much harder to find Australian talent on there. I think in future I’ll be posting jobs between StarNow and Voice123, depending on what I’m looking for.
Rob provided just the performance I was looking for, and I’d work with him again, but I did need to do a bit of post-processing on the audio. I learned a lot about tools for getting audio levelled and cleaned up to go into the game. Izotope RX was the only tool I found that could clean up everything, and their batch processing was exactly what I needed for so many files.
