How do you decide what type of voice you’re going to use? Are you given a breakdown that helps, i.e. In Cyberpunk 2077, Alt plays Johnny Silverhand’s (Keanu Reeves) ex-lover. That said, I’ve had the good fortune of living in the states too, so it was impossible not to pick up their accents! All of this being said, I love it when production provides an accent coach to me on a job – it’s a luxury to have and a huge help. Most definitely though, when it comes to accents, practice makes perfect. You can teach yourself if you have a discerning ear and enough time to do so. I don’t have a coach, but I am a total slave to YouTube accent tutorials. You are flexible with different accents such as USA (Standard, NYC, LA, Mid-West), Northern Irish, Irish, Scottish, and South African. For reasons of ease and artistry,, my preferred choice is therefore to performance capture and voice over the whole role at once. Usually, either I would have to time and/or lip-sync my performance to that which was already performance captured and/or animated or I would act the lines first and then they would be performance captured and animated later on. Yes, I assume that this probably has happened to me, though I can’t fully remember if that was the case. Generally speaking, no, not in voiceover video games, but in performance capture (or for film/TV/stage) then yes, you absolutely do!Īre there any games you worked on where you are JUST the voice, and another actor does the motion capture? How does that work? Does production do the motion capture first and then you add your voice, as in lip-syncing to the actor, or does the actor lip-sync to your voice? As an actor, it’s our job to learn to unburden ourselves of that pressure. Wanting the job makes it harder to be relaxed in the moment, for sure, so the pressure piles on. I would say that the hardest auditions are the ones where you really desperately want the job. They also have an extensively long list of voice samples saved of mine if they need a reference. Although I am in the fortunate position that a lot of studios and developers know my work now. I do sometimes still audition for video games. Do you audition for video game voiceovers at this point or are you asked? What was the most difficult video game voice over audition and why? Let’s talk about how voiceovers and actions are done in video games. You’ve voiced an incredible amount of characters in video games, including Alt Cunningham, in Cyberpunk 2077 and Aya in Assassin’s Creed: Origins. Most of the gorgeous costumes were “one-offs.” They were either authentic vintage finds or costumes on loan from a Canadian theatre company known to our designer. This is a great way of working as it means you can plan your fittings around your shooting times – such as on a lunch break – thus saving time on the shoot days overall. I had a couple of days of costume fittings ahead of shooting and then numerous other meetings and alterations on our shoot days. I highly recommend both books for anyone interested in this period of the Romantics. The two books that proved invaluable during the process were Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon which is the biography of Mary’s life. However, my posture had to be a little straighter, my demeanor a little more demure and my gestures a little more restrained than today’s standards. was of course a heightened RP based on when the piece is set, so I adapted my voice for that. Luckily, I am British, as Mary Shelley was, so the accent came naturally to me. fiction? How much (if any) research did you do on Mary Shelley? What was it like portraying Mary Shelley in the period timepiece A Nightmare Wakes ? Did you have to learn to walk and speak differently? Were you told which portions of the film were true biographical vs.
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We talked to Alix Wilton Regan about the movie and her experiences recording and acting in video games. The film is an adaptation of the novel Frankenstein as told through the life of Mary Shelley, the author. She plays Mary Shelley in the thriller A Nightmare Wakes. The video game market is a great place to put your acting chops to work! Video games are not going away, and as our culture demands more entertainment, actors of all body types and voices are being hired. Regan is also the voice and body of several characters in other well-known games that have infiltrated our society. Actress Alix Wilton Regan is the voice of Alt Cunningham in Cyberpunk 2077, the action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt.