Portal - LAB RAT Comic Dub
Project Overview
Dub for the comic "LAB RAT" for Portal/Portal 2, originally by Valve. As a voice actor myself this was originally going to be a small personal project, but it turns out my partner cannot act (he is aware, all in good humor, plus, I needed extras). The character GLaDOS will be played by myself as I can do a decent impression.
Familiarity with the games is helpful but not required. Please read the comic here: http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/#1
Requirements:
- A decent microphone and good audio quality (no laptop or phone mics).
- Basic knowledge of recording; use of a pop filter and sound dampening.
- Discord
- Please be responsive and meet deadlines, though I understand that life is unpredictable and flexibility is not a problem.
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Doug, AKA Ratman, is a schizophrenic employee of Aperture Science and the protagonist of the Lab Rat comic. He works behind the scenes to help the games' protagonist, Chell, in her fight against GLaDOS, the homicidal AI that controls the facility. He talks to the companion cube, an inanimate object that he perceives as speaking to him in return.
Many of Doug's lines border on the metaphysical, and at times he talks to himself. I'm looking for someone fairly experienced who can capture the philosophical side of this character.
"Reality is a story the mind tells itself. An artificial structure conjured into being by the calcium ion exchange of a million synaptic firings. A truth so strange it can only be lied into existence. And our minds can lie. Never doubt it."
"Only one thing it can mean. She did it. It's over. The ultimate systems crash."
"But even if it works, there will be no wake-up date. She'll be in there indefinitely. So it's the long sleep...or the long sleep. And I don't know which is worse. Forgive me."
The companion cube is an inanimate cube that Doug hallucinates as speaking to him. The cube helps him navigate the facility. I'm not positive what sound I want for this character, but I imagine it to be fairly high-pitched, a bit soft-spoken, not entirely human, and will most likely have a few effects or filters placed over it. When auditioning for this character, feel free to experiment with voices as I'm still very open to possibilities.
"C'mon, you don't need those anymore. You're fine."
"Stay to the right! Turrets ahead on your left."
"I heard an explosion. What could it mean?"
Henry is a fellow scientist and coworker of Doug's, working on the GLaDOS project. Henry is excitable and somewhat naive to the danger he's in. When auditioning for this character, don't act too serious--feel free to be a bit goofy or throw in a sense of humor to the character's tone.
"It's been a hell of a morning. You missed all the fun. We had to hit the kill switch again."
"I mean take a look around you, we're on the bleeding edge here. Artificial consciousness is the next frontier."
"Well, as long as it's for science."
Extra voice needed for one to two lines for additional scientists.
"We put cameras in the cameras. He'll never suspect."
"Genius."
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