Voice Acting Contest #2 - Custom Unit Sound-sets

[shamanyouranus]

Custom Unit Soundsets
Contestants are to create a complete sound set to fit a custom unit model.

• Contestants must make an original sound set for a custom unit model (skins will not be allowed, sorry) that is currently approved on either the Hive Workshop or Warcraft 3 Campaigns.
• No submission may violate any of the site rules.
• Contestants may use any tools and software that they legitimately own.
• Submissions must be MP3 format. Please use a bitrate of at least 128Kbps.
  • Yes we know soundsets are normally in wav but for the sake of bandwidth these must be mp3.
• Sound effects are allowed, but the majority of the entry must be spoken word.
• Entries, at minimum, must contain the following:
  • 1 Ready
  • 3 Yes
  • 3 Yes Attack
  • 3 What
  • 2 Pissed
  • 1 Death
  • Yourself stating your username, the name of the model, and that this is your submission for the Voice Acting Contest #2.
    Example: "Hi, this is shamanyouranus, and this is my entry for the second voice acting contest, and the model I am using is ______."
    This audio file is required to prevent against rips and such, so it should sound just like the rest of your entry. Entries without this audio file will be disqualified, so DON'T FORGET!
• These next ones are important:
  • To preserve anonymity, posts containing WIPs or compromising information about an entry will not be allowed. Contestants who reveal their entry will be disqualified.
  • Final entries are to be uploaded to the Pastebin and sent to Pyritie in a private message titled "Voice Acting Contest Submission." When uploading to the Pastebin, please check the "Long Time" box.
  • In your final entry (sent to Pyritie), you must include your submission and a link to the corresponding unit model.

Basically the whole point of this contest is to be anonymous. When the poll starts, Samuraid will put up a page where you can vote for your entry of choice. The entry names and positions are randomised with each page reload. This system worked well for the last voice acting contest so that's why we're doing it again

• First Place: 50 reputation points and your entry on an award icon
  
• Second Place: 35 reputation points and an award icon
  
• Third Place: 20 reputation points and an award icon

• If you would like to judge the contest simply make a post in this thread stating so.

Creativity	How interesting is the voice? How well does it fit the model?	/10
Quality	How well are effects and filters, if any, used? Is there constant popping or static?	/10
Script	How well do the lines fit the model? Are the things it says clever, or just generic?	/10

• 65 % of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
• 35 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of an anonymous poll.

• The contest shall begin on 17th March 2010 and conclude on 23:59, April 21, GMT

 

[Deolrin]

Lol, awesome. Good luck to whoever enters. I wonder how many modelers are going to voice act for their own models. ^^

 

[General Frank]

I might join when I fix my PC this week.

 

[Amigurumi]

this sounds quite awesome!

I wonder how many modelers are going to voice act for their own models. ^^

I don't think that many modelers do voice acting

also I don't get why it should be anonymous?

Well, good luck to all contestants!

 

[Kwah]

I think I'll actually get in on this one. I now have a mike, so it shouldn't take too much time.

 

[Pyritie]

also I don't get why it should be anonymous?

Voice acting contests are probably one of the easiest to make anonymous, and really anonymous polls are the best since it eliminates pretty much all bias

 

[Amigurumi]

Voice acting contests are probably one of the easiest to make anonymous, and really anonymous polls are the best since it eliminates pretty much all bias

ah, that's a good reason

Well, I don't enter, because my voice isn't that good and I don't have any
programs to make something special out of my voice.
So I'll wait for some nice entries

 

[General Frank]

Voice acting contests are probably one of the easiest to make anonymous, and really anonymous polls are the best since it eliminates pretty much all bias

Hey, a question, if I submit a model on the 1st of April can I go with it then?

 

[Fanny.Shaver]

[*]35 % of the winner shall be determined by the results of an anonymous poll.

Does it mean that work is anonymous as well, like we vote #1 of some's work, or people who vote are anonymous?

 

[Pharaoh_]

No, the work we vote for is anonymous.

 

[AIagremm]

Cool! Hope I will find some useful people here.

 

[ap0calypse]

Wow, this actually fits really well with the hero contest #3... (create an avatar of yourself + give it a sound: 2 contest in 1 xD).
I guess it's allowed, since both entries can still be seperated and do not break any rules (unless they really do break any rules of course ^^).

1 month... should be enough, though I have no idea whether I will enter or not.

 

[Avator]

Is it allowed to record the text and then enhance it? For example if someone wants to voice-act a ethereal thingy or something with a demonic tone/echo.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Well, obviously. Since the models' choice is too wide, you can choose any type of being you want, which means that it can be effect enhanced. Either way, it's the second criterium of the contest; "Effects".

 

[Avator]

But wouldn't that be a possibility to ruin the 'Proof it's yours by recording your name and stuff' recording? Or should that be effect enhanced as well?

 

[NFWar]

Sounds realy FUN ^^ but I will not join... I never join contests, afraid of FAIL.

 

[ap0calypse]

But wouldn't that be a possibility to ruin the 'Proof it's yours by recording your name and stuff' recording? Or should that be effect enhanced as well?

This audio file is required to prevent against rips and such, so it should sound just like the rest of your entry.

It HAS to sound like the rest of the entry (so you have to add the effects on it).

 

[Avator]

Oh man, this is going to be awesome if I can manage to enhance my voice like that

 

[Alfagar]

Cool, I'll think if I will join

 

[Piwlady]

I would join but my english is so damn bad So I don't join. Good luck to everyone who enters.

 

[Gamecrafter_DK]

:3 I'd really like to join - but my only microphone's the one on my laptop... Don't know if it will do the job.

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

I would join but my english is so damn bad So I don't join. Good luck to everyone who enters.

You could add accent! like trolls have Jamaican accent you could to a model with a cool accent from where your from! Don't let poor English stop you! English is the only language that I know and I failed it in high school so don't use that as an excuse xD

someone should make one for my goblin model if it gets approved... idk why it isn't yet...

 

[Avator]

Who says his pronouncing is the problem?

He could made little grammar mistake two (if you get what I mean)

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

Who says his pronouncing is the problem?

He could made little grammar mistake two (if you get what I mean)

but we could help with that

 

[Amigurumi]

I think grammar isn't a big problem. I never did real voice acting, so I might be a bit
newby at it, but you could write down your sentence, and look for grammar errors and so
on, until there aren't any errors left.
So it's more the pronounciation, which could be a problem.
But I shut up, because I have now idea

 

[Traxamillion]

Shaman prepare to be de-throned.

EDIT: Do we submit a PM saying what unit and etc. at the end? Or..?

EDIT2: Doesn't this ruin the point of being anonymous?

Example: "Hi, this is shamanyouranus, and this is my entry for the second voice acting contest, and the model I am using is ______."

 

[Gamecrafter_DK]

@FW - i was considering to enter as a goblin XD

 

[Pyritie]

EDIT: Do we submit a PM saying what unit and etc. at the end? Or..?

Whenever your final entry is done, yeah

EDIT2: Doesn't this ruin the point of being anonymous?

Nope, since the only people hearing that are me and possibly Samuraid. And I'm not judging.

 

[Pharaoh_]

The Hero Contest began today till the 14th of April and this one, which is a lot simplier, lasts until 17th of April, shouldn't it get shrinked?

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah the times can be adjusted I guess

 

[Darkness-4ever]

Sounds cool, count me in.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

I WILL JOIN THIS CONTEST AS WELL! BYEAGH!!

/me asplodes

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I am definitely joining this contest

 

[The Panda]

I would be happy to judge this.

 

[Samuraid]

Best of luck to everyone involved!

 

[Avator]

Is there any way to get constructive criticism on WIPs while staying anonymous?

 

[Pyritie]

Is there any way to get constructive criticism on WIPs while staying anonymous?

Good question.

Uhh, you could PM them to me and then I could post the WIPs and have people give comments then?

 

[Darkness-4ever]

I have been trying to find the soundsets that were submitted in the first voice acting contest to get an idea of what I should look forward to in terms of competition, but alas, the files don't exist ):

 

[KeLeNoR]

I would like to judge please!

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Hrmm... i like the idea of posting WIPS and getting comments/criticism, but i also like the idea of staying anonymous. But we dont want 50 pyritie posts. Why dont we have a set date where you can submit your WIPS to pyritie so he can post them. Sort of like a checkpoint in the contest.

 

[Traxamillion]

hrmm... I like the idea of posting wips and getting comments/criticism, but i also like the idea of staying anonymous. But we dont want 50 pyritie posts. Why dont we have a set date where you can submit your wips to pyritie so he can post them. Sort of like a checkpoint in the contest.

:d

this

 

[Cavman]

Hrmm... i like the idea of posting WIPS and getting comments/criticism, but i also like the idea of staying anonymous. But we dont want 50 pyritie posts. Why dont we have a set date where you can submit your WIPS to pyritie so he can post them. Sort of like a checkpoint in the contest.

This here is a good idea.
Also thinking I might join in on this.

 

[OverSky]

Do the sound effects have to be created by us to or can we use assets from programs or other places?

(Sound effect would not replace a voice just accompany it.)

 

[Pyritie]

As long as you send me a link to where you got it, I don't see why not

 

[Fanny.Shaver]

Can that be a sound set for a skin? At some point they could be classified as a models, as they are different to original ones.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Skin is actually like a new unit, a new model, so I'm sure it's fine.

 

[Traxamillion]

When I came up with this idea, I intended it for models and skins, i guess shaman didnt expalin it clear enough.

 

[N00B5600]

I might get involved.....although for some reason my voice sounds retarded on the mike (and on the phone, i've noticed)....

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I might get involved.....although for some reason my voice sounds retarded on the mike (and on the phone, i've noticed)....

That's due to either a bad sound card or a bad mic.

Also your head creates resonance so when you hear your own voice as you speak, it's not necessarily the same as what other people hear

 

[anarchianbedlam]

:/ meh, for the sake of simplicity, shaman thinks that it should just be custom models. A lot of custom skins are remakes of what the model was suppose to be or are too similar "like from night elf to wood nymph" or from "rifleman to marine".... it would be easier for everyone if it was just custom models.

before you ask.... no, we can not go through the process of asking if a certain texture would be considered unique enough to be in the contest because that would defeat the purpose of anonymity.