The Walking Dead: Comic Dub [VOLUME 4: The Heart's Desire]

Project Overview


CURRENTLY CASTING FOR VOLUME 4. 

VOLUME 4 DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2020. 


The Walking Dead: Comic Dub is a three year endeavor to create video versions (fully voice acted with an original soundtrack) of all 193 issues of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead. Every week for four years, starting mid-2020, one of these issues will be posted on the The Walking Dead: Comic Dub YouTube channel. 

(Disclaimer: You must by 18+ to audition. This comic series contains EXTREMELY mature content, including graphic violence, strong language, and sex. Please make sure you're comfortable with all of those things before auditioning.) 

(Disclaimer 2: This project is not associated with the TV show at all! All the voice, sound, music and other creative choices are based on the material from the comic books alone. Keep this in mind while auditioning.) 


Voice Acting Information 

For those who are cast, a set of six scripts (a volume) will be given at the beginning of every month. They are due at the end of that month. 

HERE IS A LINK TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF SCRIPTS. This is the typical length of the material given out every month. If this is a schedule you don't think you can keep up with, then this probably isn't the project for you. How many months this goes on for obviously depends on how many volumes your character is in.

New roles will be available to audition for every month, so check in regularly! The length of time required to portray these roles (ranging from a month [one volume] to 32 months [all 32 volumes]) will be listed alongside the character.

The whole goal is to keep the people playing the characters consistent throughout the whole series. If you don't think you can turn in your lines on time every month for the number of months listed, please don't apply. Even if the character you portray isn't in the next volume, you will still have lines for that month. For example, the character of Morgan Jones is in the first volume, but then isn't seen all the way until the 6th. This means while everyone is on the 2nd volume. Morgan will be on the 6th. Then when everyone else moves on to the 3rd volume, Morgan will be on the 10th and so on until his part is complete.


Auditioning

This project is going for a gritty, realistic, authentic feeling. Approach the audition as such (basically, not cartoonish).

(Please make sure your audio is sounding nice and professional. That means having a quality microphone, ABSOLUTELY NO AUDIO PEAKING/CLIPPING, echo, background noise, or lip smacks. Be sure that you're not too close or too far from the microphone and that when you yell, you really give it your all and don't do any of that "whisper yelling". Y'know, the usual.)

As previously stated, you are NOT impersonating the TV actors, but instead basing your performance on the comic book character alone. 

You DO NOT have to follow the voice suggestions accompanying characters. Use them as a guide if you want to, but feel free to completely ignore them.

(These audition lines are long! If your audio file size is too large to upload, try exporting it as an MP3. Otherwise, send me a message.)

You are encouraged to audition for as many roles as you can! There are parts that will most likely be played by the same person (like twins), but there are new characters available to try out for every month. So even if you don't get in the first month you try, you can try again for a different role the next month and the next.

Even if you HAVE been cast, you can absolutely audition for more parts in future months (although your voice will have to be significantly different from your "cast" role).

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If you have any questions/comments/concerns/suggestions, you are ALWAYS free to message me! I look forward to your auditions.

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  • VOLUME 4 IS CAST, VOLUME 5 AUDITIONS START NOW

    Here is the link to the Volume 5 casting call (Deadline: Oct. 30): https://www.castingcall.club/projects/the-walking-dead-comic-dub-volume-5-the-best-defense Thank you to everyone who auditioned! It was a lot of fun going through all of your entries. If you were not cast, be sure to try again for Volume 5! Especially if you're a zombie since you can even just upload the same audio to the role titled "Zombie (Volume 5)." I wish you all luck and stay safe!
Project Roles: Michonne Hawthorne Otis [VOLUME 2 RECAST] Zombies (Volume 4)
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Michonne Hawthorne
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: Sarah Glyszon

Age: Late 30s to Early 40s - Late 50s to Early 60s (changes throughout the series)

Michonne Hawthorne (pronounced MI-SHOWN) is a main character first encountered in Issue 19 of Image Comics' The Walking Dead as well as the protagonist of the Michonne Special. She is a lone survivor who originally traveled with two zombies before eventually joining the prison group. Armed with a katana and deadly skills to complement it, Michonne is an effective and crucial defender of the survivors.

Michonne is strong willed, introverted, practical, and skeptical. She is constantly surveying her surroundings, and is quick to size up a situation and its potential dangers. She is very skeptical of seemingly good people and situations, and takes everything at face value. Despite her introversion due to post-apocalyptic trauma, Michonne claims to have once been quite gregarious. With this internal conflict, Michonne, perhaps to a fault, too easily falls in love with men she interacts with. Her true self is further repressed each time her lovers meet their fates, despite Michonne knowing full well how short life can be in the new world. Michonne acknowledges just how far gone she is, and this constantly pains her. From losing all of her past lovers to abandoning her children, she has become someone she hates. She often exclaims her disdain for being seen as strong, because she thinks others see her as nothing more than a warrior and a weapon. Despite this, she is extremely loyal to her friends, and has developed a very close relationship with the Grimes family. Michonne tends to work alone and quietly, but still fights for the survivors' defense as strongly as the other active defenders. She is frequently referred to and perceived by the other characters as one of the strongest members of the survivors, and frequently participates in the violent, but necessary, actions of the group. Despite her experiences, Michonne has proved her worth to the group, not only in her practical skills with her katana, but also in her constant participation in moving the survivors forward and keeping the group safe.

All the character info you might need: https://walkingdead.fandom.com/wiki/Michonne_Hawthorne_(Comic_Series) 

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Time Commitment: 2 Years, 3 Months (27 Volumes)

Disclaimer: Michonne is involved in some sexually explicit scenes, including rape.

Michonne is one of the most vital, important, and interesting characters to the entire series, lasting all the way to the very end. She's very complicated emotionally, so it'll be a real acting challenge to pull off.

She COULD have a deep to mid-ranged voice and COULD have stoic, quieter, weary and/or badass qualities to her voice, but don't let these limit your vocal choices at all.

  • "Wake up, asshole. Finally--I thought you were never going to wake up. You passed out a second time when I nailed your prick to the board you're on. Do you remember that? I wouldn't do much moving if I were you. Don't worry about the little girl--I put her in the back room--where you had all this junk. What are you doing--building a cage for your little--sex slave? Why do you have her here anyway? I don't even want to know. I'm anxious to get started."

    —Michonne (Late 30s to Early 40s) angrily to The Governor, preparing to torture him.

  • "I was trying to humor you and see this through, it just seemed like the fastest way to get this over with. It's not fast enough. My daughter. I thought I'd lost her. I haven't seen her since this all began... Somehow, she's here. Somehow, she's alive. There was a picture of me--on your "wall of the lost" or whatever it's called, and she's looking for me. So if it's all the same to you... You want to sell me on the Commonwealth, bring me over to your side? Why don't you let me hear it from her?"

    —Michonne (Late 30s to Early 40s) asking Pamela Milton if she can see her daughter.

  • "Michonne was someone who carried a lot of guilt. It haunted her... had her talking to ghosts, pushing people away, and forgetting who she was. Hawthorne was my ex-husband's name. I never changed it after the divorce because my practice knew me under that name. Eventually, the name was just a painful reminder of a failed marriage and lost children. So I hid from it... and who I was. Now? I feel like I earned it back, the work I've done, what I've accomplished. It's who I am now. I never would have been able to do that without your father... and the world he built. There are some people out there who feel like your father gets too much credit. There were so many of us helping him along the way. Sure. But I feel like he still doesn't get enough credit. So every time I have a chance to set something right or honor the man in some small way--I take it."

    —Michonne (Late 50s to Early 60s) to Carl about Rick.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Otis [VOLUME 2 RECAST]
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: brianjanderson

Age: Mid 30s

Otis is a character first encountered in Issue 9 of Image Comics' The Walking Dead. He is the boyfriend of Patricia, and a farm hand of Hershel Greene and his family. Otis is a well meaning, if somewhat prejudiced man. He was also a loving boyfriend to Patricia until he discovered she freed Thomas and sided with Dexter and Andrew to kick the group out of the prison, causing a rift between them, though eventually they made amends and agreed to be friends.

All the character info you might need: https://walkingdead.fandom.com/wiki/Otis_(Comic_Series) 

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Time Commitment: 5 Months (5 Volumes)

Disclaimer: This character's dialogue contains some racial slurs.

He COULD have a higher voice and/or COULD have a stereotypical southern hick accent, but don't let these limit your vocal choices at all.

  • "I--At the farm I live on... The guy that owns the place had a son shot in the foot. He got the bullet out, patched him up good. He works on animals around the farm. He ain't no doctor but I think he'll know what to do. The place ain't a mile away... We'd be there right quick."

    —Otis to Rick, extremely panicked after accidentally shooting Rick's son.

  • "I wouldn't hurt a fly--I mean... I was out there huntin' but I wouldn't kill no animal I wasn't going to eat. I'm real gentle, I ain't violent at all. And I--I shot that kid. I understand why that Rick fella wanted to kill me. If'n I had killed his boy... I'd a wanted him to do it... I'd a deserved it. We still don't know if he's gonna live."

    —Otis to Tyreese about how bad he feels for accidentally shooting Carl.

  • "Don't talk to me like that. You shut yer fucking mouth an' listen. You wanna dump me--fine. I don't even give a shit no more. But the shit they telling me you did--it ain't right. It just ain't fucking right. You've lost it, girl."

    —Otis to Patricia after siding with Dexter and Andrew over the group.

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Zombies (Volume 4)
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Zombies, mostly referred to in-universe as walkers, monsters, roamers, geeks, lurkers, biters, muertos, infected and empties, are an antagonistic force that serve as the primary catalyst for the events within The Walking Dead universe. They serve as universal antagonists.

Reanimated human beings, while not immortal, will not "die" under typical conditions that would ordinarily cause the death of a living person. They do not appear to feel or respond to pain, can survive even the most brutal injuries, and despite their bottomless appetite for flesh, they do not need food, water, or sleep to survive.

They show no other bodily function that relates to a human, showing no signs of self-healing or response to extreme temperatures. The brain maintains limited abilities of the body, allowing for movement of the limbs (provided that they are not decomposed to the point where the bones are not strong enough to bend without breaking), jaws, neck, and even the use of its sensory systems. While the walkers are notoriously weaker than humans, the only way to kill one is to destroy the brain. Despite severely weakened frames, they will continue to hunt for living animals to consume. Even when decapitated, the head will remain active, even though it would be practically harmless at such point.

All the info you might need: https://walkingdead.fandom.com/wiki/Zombies 

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Time Commitment: 2 Years, 5 Months (29 Volumes) 

That time commitment figure is actually just the maximum amount of time you might be working. Zombies are played by multiple people (any gender) and a new person to play zombies is cast every month. Essentially, you can stay with the project for a long or little as you like. 

Every month, one more person will be cast and added to the group of zombie voice actors, so if you audition for zombies previously and weren't cast, be sure to re-record/resubmit your audition this month (to show that you're still interested and active.)

Zombies have sound written out in text form pretty specifically in the comics. Your job is to match the essence of what those words are trying to convey as exact as you can, while still sounding like a roaming, compulsion-driven zombie.

Not all the sounds are coming from the same zombie. The zombies' voices COULD vary in pitch and maybe in texture. Have fun with this one and try different things!

  • "Uungh. Guk. Glakk. Gar. Uhh! Uhh! Uhh! Ruh! Uhh. Gak. Ruh? Guh. ≡CHOMP≡ ≡SLURP≡ Uh. Ugh. Grr. Rrgh! Ruugh!! Whugh! Garr! Roagh. Augh. Gruh. Hmgh! Wuagg!"

    - Zombies in a variety of different situations

    (Try to match the words pretty exact while still sounding natural)

  • *Make a variety of zombie death noises* 

    (dying to axes, gunshots, neck cut open, stabbed, slow deaths, long deaths, etc.)

  • *Make any other zombie noises you would like to show off*

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