After some issues Fyrestarter Productions is back up here. Auditions are open for Neko Majin  5.

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I’ll be playing Emily Carter in ALTernity films Halo machinima ‘Horizon’, it’s another role using my normal voice ( or close enough) and a good dose of crazy! Enjoy.

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I really did forget to update this place. I’ve updated the layout so it’s cleaner and am going to finish updating my personal information. This site has been through so many changes, I tried out a games blog for a bit but to be honest I’m not really happy with a lot of the writing so a lot of the posts have gone.  Random thoughts tend to happen on LJ and Twitter.  Going to refocus this site though as my personal homepage again.

Now I’ve got some voice acting to finish, and I’m then once again going to try and animate a walk cycle…

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Finished off two games story modes today :

Naruto Rise of a Ninja 360

Ah Naruto tweenage Ninja, who somehow never kills anyone. The Gamecube Naruto series was a tough act to rival, so Ubisoft instead tries for a more adventury game.  I’ll give them points for not going the DBZ route and sticking largely to a standard fighting game ( not counting the bizarre GBA and DS games). There’s fighting in there, but it’s only one aspect of the game which sees you actually run around Konoha.

Worse part of the game was either the fact I had to collect giant coins, that some idiot had left floating all over town before the merchants would let me buy stuff. I would think the GIANT FLOATY COINS would be worth enough, or the terrible cut scenes which look like they had been ripped from a TV edited episode that was recorded on VHS. Thank goodness the Japanese voices were available when I got around to playing it. I  quite like the Naruto dub,  but sadly they didn’t get all the actors in for the game so some voices changed between the cut scenes and game which would have annoyed me greatly.

Best part was running around Konoha like a loon and chasing Konohamaru. Fighting was decent as was the analogue based Jutsu system. Not an amazing game, but considering the level of most licensed games pretty well made.

Portal

Very slow in finishing this, very clever game but made me feel sick if I played too long. Funnily enough I don’t know if I need to play any more.  Portal 2 would have to be pretty good to make me buy it.

GLADos is scary.

Beneath a steel sky

Probably my favourite game of all time, ran through this again since it’s up Goodoldgames .  Still good.

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Meant to blog about this earlier in the week about my relaunched voiceacting.co.uk . VAUK is my voice over, fan dub, media creation community site.

Voiceacting.co.uk

In the screenshot above you see the Voice Actor’s Directory, all the site’s users can create their own VA resume. There’s also a production directory, forum, as well as all the site’s previous tutorials, news and reviews. It’s aimed at amateur voice actor’s, but it’ll also be useful for those needing voice actors such as games makers, animators, podcasters etc. I also hope it will be an interesting place to hand around.

I’ll be adding new features as time goes on.

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An original audio drama I wrote, it’s been in the works a good long while

Red/ Car Green Car

It seems to Scott that his son always has to the right about everything, and he almost always is. But what worries Scott is that the facts might be changing to fit what the boy says and not the other way around. Strange events have been swirling around Sam ever since he was a baby when he was rejected and almost killed by his mother. Now at the age of twelve the strange phenomena seem to go increasing at an exponential rate. How much is Scott imagining? Is he jealous of his son? or has he passed on the strangest of special talents?

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Stream @ Sheezyart

A Fyrestarter/ Solider production

Written by: Rebecca Mccarthy

Produced/ Mixed by: River Kanoff

Music : Dan Bradley

Cast:

Featuring the vocal talents of:
River Kanoff as Scott Canessa,
Michael Johnston as Sam Canessa,
Ryan Gilbert as Dr Borne and Bear
Hathor Liderc as Mr Holt
Maria Vu as Emily
Clym Angus as the taxi driver
Mindy as Miriam
Mippa as Hannah
Rebecca McCarthy as the Nurse
And narrated by Richard Bartok
A fyrestarter production podcast.voiceacting.co.uk

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Finally started to catch up my reviews. Here’s Yokai attack.

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One of the reasons I have been so busy:

I am part of new UK small press group IndieManga:

We’re here we’ve launched! Now I bet you want to know all about our first book ” Origins” which will be launched at Birmingham International Comics Expo October 4th & 5th! (Then available on-line in October hooray!) The book is approximately 100 pages and features the following exciting things:

Fell by Kate Holden
Alice Fogarty Hates Small Towns by Sally Jane Thompson
The King’s Silver prose story by Rebecca McCarthy
Rake: Drink & Driving By Kate Holden & Rebecca McCarthy
Valley of the Shadow by Anna Fitzpatrick

There’s also a nice intro by me, cookies if you can explain the references. It’s got ghosts and pirates on the cover, that’s awesome.

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