I offered my services to the VR MA students today to help them record lines for the VR project. I brought in my usb mic so I could just record straight into my laptop and edit immediately. We went through the menu lines and the lines for the penguin main character in the ‘Winter Wonderland’ scene. I also ended up recording some lines myself for the ‘Zenrapy’ scene as well.
On taking the recording home and editing I applied some moderate EQ and compression and separated the lines into scenes and labelled them according to what scene they were in, what order the line appeared in, and then a few words at the start to make it easier to find in a long list.
I was asked to do some editing to the penguin voice lines to make it more like a penguin but over the years of doing my own editing and directing for voice actors I’ve found that much of the effect has to come from the VA and unless you’re in specific circumstances you can only do so much with post processing and so in the moment I suggested a slightly higher and energetic tone for the VA to try with the penguin which I feel will convey well, especially when actually coming from the mouth of an animated penguin, any other pitching up would become distracting and so, in this case, less is more.