Who would you choose?

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:58 pm

TotQ is being made into an animated feature. You have been assigned to pick the voice actors for the characters. Whom do you choose to do Quentyn? How about the other major characters?

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:17 pm

I think I asked that before, and no one seemed to know....

Jfries289 · Post by **Jfries289** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:31 pm

How about the now slightly more grown up version of the kid who played in The Sixth Sense (Haley Joel Osment)?

He's a great actor of about the rightish age and he has a wonderful range of subtle emotional expression in his voice.

Doink · Post by **Doink** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:30 am

He also played the voice of Sora in Kingdom Hearts. I love that game.

Mjolnir · Post by **Mjolnir** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:46 am

I'd actually go with Michael J. Fox. I think he could get the child-like quality while letting Quentyn's inate intellegence through.

- Mjolnir

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:03 am

Micheal J Fox? Ew no.

One thing you have to remember. Racconan voices are higher-pitched than human ones.... say, oh, an octave or so higher. Quentyn has a relatively young and high voice, even for them. To human ears, he sounds like a little girl.

Mjolnir · Post by **Mjolnir** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:17 am

Ah. Didn't know that. In that case, how about Nancy Cartwright (aka Bart Simpson)?

- Mjolnir

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:39 am

Well Bruce Willis will be voicing a raccooon in the newest Dreamworks movie, "Over the Hedge" Not sure what part he could do in a Questor movie though.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:47 am

JAM (and anyone else):
I skimmed over the previous posts and don't recall seeing that one. I also tried searching on "voice" and got 1,915 finds, only a few on this particular forum. Sorry for the duplication. Is there some way of searching just NPC?

Wayfarer · Post by **Wayfarer** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:08 am

I vaguely sorta-kinda seem to remember this, but I don't really have the time to search it out.
There is a way of limiting searches to just NPC, though. When you go to the search screen there's the space under "Search Options" with a drop-down menu labeled "Forum" - you find NPC on that.

Yuoofox · Post by **Yuoofox** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:04 am

One thing you have to remember. Racconan voices are higher-pitched than human ones.... say, oh, an octave or so higher. Quentyn has a relatively young and high voice, even for them. To human ears, he sounds like a little girl.

But if someone were to make a movie out of it where all the Racconans are speaking English (or whatever language the movie track is in), wouldn't normal human voices sound better? I think perhaps the audience might not take it seriously if the voices were that high-pitched.

On the other hand, the high-pitched voices might be appropriate if the particular scene in the movie is from a completely 3rd person point-of-view, where they're speaking in Racconan and not English (or whatever language the movie track is on).

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:14 am

Interesting idea Yuoo.

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:09 pm

I was thinking of guys like Tobey Macguire, but all those guys are too old by a few years. No one I could think can really match him.

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:57 pm

[...unWARP!]

Good evening.

Ah, found them.

I asked my questions here for UTLT, here for Nip & Tuck, and here for TotQ, though at the time I didn't know Vic Tayback had died. Sometime before that I had a TotQ dream where my sister and me supplied the voices for Quentyn and Kestrel.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:24 pm

Something else...would not the Racconans have an "accent" caused by the elongated shape of their oral cavities and nasal passages into a kind of muzzle?

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:13 am

Heh. Kinda like Florence saying "Peter Piper" with no lips.

Yuoofox · Post by **Yuoofox** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:48 am

That's why I left out the letters M and P when I was designing the Racconan Gibberish-O-Matic. (not that they don't have lips but because I wanted them to sound a tad more "canine")

NydaLynn · Post by **NydaLynn** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:17 am

*perks up* Animated feature? Count me in! I'll do grunt animation work! ^.^
Lesse... voices... I think the voice for Al Elrich on Full Metal Alchemist would be a good pick. That guy can act... then agian maybe the Ed Elrich voice would work too.

Yuoofox · Post by **Yuoofox** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:06 am

Speaking of high-pitched voices, here's an audio clip that I took from my Hampster Dance CD. (Yes, I'm a 20-something-year-old guy who listens to singing hamsters.

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When you listen to this, notice that although all of the voices are high-pitched, there's quite a difference in the way each voice sounds. That's how I think it would be in real life for the Rac Cona Daimh. You'd have your baritones and your sopranos.

http://www.yuoofox.com/temp/hampster_da ... c_clip.mp3

[Disclaimer: This sound clip comes from the CD "Hampsterdance Hits," available at many fine stores.]

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:43 am

Hah! I love that song!