[In Development] FF8 Voiceover Project

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If someone is willing to get in touch with RupertScarr (best Squall voice over so far). I just asked him and he's interested in returning to the  scene some day. Hint:



 
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That's the real trick with projects like this.  Finding someone who's willing to work for free, and is also willing to commit 50+ man hours over the course of several months recording well over a thousand lines of dialogue (several thousand with retakes).  That's hard to do for someone who's got a bunch of other things lined up (jobs, kids, etc.).  That person has to be in love with the project and connected to Squall's character enough to want to commit to that.  It also helps if they're a college kid and not a full blown adult with an adult life and adult job.  That's a big reason Shudo's original project fell apart.  Other bigger things got in the way as everyone got older.

Zach Scott (the Squall for the Youtube FFVIIIFandub project I'm helping out with) isn't my favorite Squall voice I've ever heard.  Frankly we didn't have any Rupert Scarrs or Christian Sekhanans or Dylan Kelleys audition for him back when we first started.  He was the best who auditioned and he's pretty good (his voice grew on me throughout the project) and has a good mic, but more importantly, he sticks with it and turns his lines in, rather than going completely AWOL on due dates and doesn't think he's too "internet famous" to contribute to the group chats like some of these younger, Twitter-dwelling voice-actor hipsters out there I've had to work with ?.
 
Yeah... Christian is still pretty active though (hint:
) but I wouldn't prefer him for Squall's voice. Dylan and the rest of the cast were pretty good and with much confidence with what they were dealing, but his accent reminded me more of a redneck, well not bad but comparing to RupertScarr's I prefer the last one which most resembles to my personal preference. A calm, deep neutral tone , a little apathetic with potential of progressively evolving to more mature.

Anyways, this is all just in theory with a long way ahead until becoming a full completed project.
 
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I love Christian's Squall.  Christian and Aarlyn Adams (our Quistis) did a video together last year that I thought was one of the more well done FF8 fan voice vids in recent years.
 
Aw man. I was pretty psyched about this project but it looks like it got stuck, huh...
 
It's actually not the only one any more. Project Echo-S is now making a mod for 8 too
 
It's actually not the only one any more. Project Echo-S is now making a mod for 8 too
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That's so exciting! I know it's too early to ask but do you have a ball-park number on when that will be completed?
 
Not even slightly, we haven't long started. We just finished casting the Main Characters and most of the minors.
We're finishing up 7 now and the members of 7 that are done are moving to 8 ready to get it started.

Here's our Main cast:
 
It's actually not the only one any more. Project Echo-S is now making a mod for 8 too
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Oh mannnn. I just watched your trailer. Wooo! I'm psyched all over again. Zell's voice is genius.
 
Hey y'all.

As you have probably guessed, development of this project halted for a long time. The main reason is that I went through several voice actors who said they would do the project, but dropped out halfway through. It's frustrating having to lose dozens of hours of work multiple times, then having to find replacement actors. I also moved and got a full time job which has taken up half of my awake time (when I started this I was an unemployed college graduate).

I do want to complete the project at some point, but I have a few other things that are higher priority at the moment. The good news is that every actor that has recorded with me has finished everything, and they all sound amazing. When I continue the project I will be looking for new actors to finish up the parts that haven't been done yet.

I will keep you posted on any other updates.
 
Oh you're still going? That's great to hear! We actually started our own recently too so that'll be interesting
 
Why don't you just part with Tsunamix Shard? For such a huge project I think it will make thinks easier  of course if something like this is possible to occur.
 
We already have a cast that is actively recording it now. I wouldn't wanna drop them all after finding out this one was alive. It wouldn't be fair to them.
 
Oh sorry, I must have missed that, thought you were just working on the programming part after all this time. GL on both of your projects then! Let the recordings begin!  ;D
 
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