[FANBASED] Animal Crossing: The Radioplay

[emcgo]

After about a month, Animal Crossing: The Radioplay is finally completed. Below is a series of links to each part for your listening pleasure. I hope you enjoy.

http://media.putfile.com/Animal-Crossing-Opening - The Opening with K.K. Slider

http://media.putfile.com/Animal-Crossing-Train-Ride - Meeting Rover on the train

http://media.putfile.com/Scene-3-Animal-Crossing - Arriving in Town

http://media.putfile.com/Working-For-Tom-Nook---Part-1 - Working for Tom Nook (Part 1)

http://media.putfile.com/Working-For-Tom-Nook---Part-2 - Working for Tom Nook (Part 2)

http://media.putfile.com/Ending-and-Credits - Ending and reading of credits

http://media.putfile.com/Animal-Crossing-Blooper-Reel - Just for fun.....The Blooper Reel


Cast List:

Taro: (Solstice)
Tom Nook: (reaper)
Rover: (Amuro the newtype)
K.K. Slider: (U-1)
Hopper: (emcgo)
Tortimer: ( Ian "Kenkaku" Kovich )
Olivia: (Scarlotte)
Billy: (HyperJerk)
Truffles: (Mochan)
Stu: (MikeKasprzak)
Mabel: (ZeeChan)
Blathers: (Kawttus)
Lucy: (ElzaHZT)
Gyroid Assistant: (Yoichi)
Sable: (AlyssaBruce)
Pelly: (Scarlotte)
Pete: (River Kanoff)
Porter: (Kawttus)

Feel free to listen and review. My thanks to everyone who helped make this possible. You were all wonderful and I appreciate your hard work!

-emcgo

[FullMetal Alchemist]

I can't wait to listen!

[Mochan]

The bloopers! FTW!

I just want to say that I really saw absolutely nothing wrong with this. The editing was superb and everyone did SUCH a great job! Nicely done, guys. :3

Yes, my critique sucks, but you all just ruled so very hard.

[reaper]

Pat my friend, you have surpassed me! (That's not too hard :-P )
I helped prepare the script early on, so I had a bit of an idea what was going on with the whole production.

Cast:
Everyone in the cast was a great choice. I think everyone had a good idea of the atmosphere in the game. It never got serious, it was all pure fun- like the game.

Solstice: Very good job. There was a few problems I had, but they were primarily my fault. I'll address them later. I had no idea you were British! You mask it so well. I would have shot for anime-boy style voice, but no big deal.

U-1: Really mellow, like the OVA. We picked out that voice and style after hearing the Japanese actor.

Amuro the Newtype: 'Me bro. His phone conversation destroys my whole performance. He's done me proud.

Kawttus: Perfect voice for that high-strung bugger. And great old man too. Not an easy voice to do it seems. Sounded hard on the throat.

Reaper: The voice is very nerdy, but it was based off the Japanese voice actor. Kinda annoying over extended periods.

Yoichi: Interesting voice. Not what I had pictured, but well delivered.

Scarlotte: Awesome contrast between Olivia and Pelly! I didn't even realize it was you doing both of them.

Lucy: CAVITIES!! Her voice is pure sugar! She's adorable. Not what I picture for a pig voice, but who cares! She's gotta be in this drama.

Mochan: Great delivery and voice! I have a feeling you're making a big name for yourself.

Emcgo: Haha! Pat rules. He's responsible for this circus, so of course he knows what he's doing. Really laughed at his improvised credits, hehheh.

MikeKasprzak: When I first read this part, I figured no one was going to be able to pull off this character well. Boy, I was wrong! The voice and acting was perfect! Really brought him to life.

Zeechan: She really suited that part! She could really be a designer for all I know! You can visualize her enthusiasm! So when do you open shop?

Alyssa Bruce: Poor Alyssa really got cheated in this script. Great delivery of your part.

Kenkaku: Hilarious voice brother! Anyone that can pull a good old man rules! Really liked the "It's... different"

River Kanoff: My father is a postal worker, so this role is a very significant one to me. Delivered that complaining perfectly!

Mixing:
This was a mixing nightmare! I had no idea how long this audio drama was going to last! Pat ol' boy used the original music, and a great choice of sound effects. It really felt like you were listening to the game.

There were occassions were we could have used a change of music, such as when Stu sneaks up behind Taro Taro. Could have used a creepy build up.

Door sounds are kinda annoying to find. But I would have found something else other than the 'AIM door shut' noise. Whenever I was signed into AIM I started wondering if someone signed off.
You were really careful about the amount of atmosphere you had. The train ambience was awesome. But sometimes the background sounds were lacking. Still, that may work more than my style of overdoing atmosphere.
Also, it really needed a sound effect for the 'V' (Victory Sign). I should have sent something to you. It was supposed to be accompanied by the old 'Com Battler V' sound. Sorry buddy.

Script
Taro Taro's lines were 90% written by me. Yes, all the stupid, cornball jokes were mine. Permission to hate granted :razz: Pat and I discussed how it would be best not to change any wording for the characters in the first episode. So I made it so Taro's dialogue consisted mostly of back-talk, sarcasm, and muttering under his breath. Something that didn't interrupt the dialogue flow. I didn't give any instructions for Solstice's lines, which I probably should have... Considering it's usually hard to 'get' my "humor". But still, it was no big deal. Solstice was still a great lead, and I never got bored of listening.

Overall I am very proud to be a part of this project... If you couldn't tell already! And Pat earned himself a good break now.

[RosieG]

Amazing work, everybody! The whole thing was extremely entertaining, and what an amazing ensemble! I'll probably give a more full review later, but awesome job. The blooper reel was a stroke of genius, by the way.

[ElsaHZT]

YAY~~ i still have to listen to all of it... but so far everyone did a great job, but i seriously need a new mic.

[Solstice]

I really, really love it! All the characters are great. The bloopers were so funny = D.

[Malunis_T]

Cast:
A lot of the voices sounded pretty spot-on, ESPECIALLY K.K. and Nook, they sounded exactly how I would have imagined. However, some felt out of place, such as Amuro the newtype which seemed a little deep for Rover, though I suppose each voice could be portrayed differently. Though I did like his acting in particular (as with Tom.)


Sound/Music:
Love the use of all the Animal Crossing music, it all fits into proper place. As for sound... Some sounds seemed a little low in quality while others felt unfitting (such as Rover's footsteps on the train which sounded like walking in the grass), but if these were taken straight from the game, I can imagine they're hard to record in the first place. Otherwise, you did a nice job here too.


Script:
The script was perfect, using nearly all the dialogue from the game is a good idea, but I would have recommended making more changes to allow it to be used in audio form. It may just be my point of view, though I felt some things in the script didn't sound as good when spoken, such as the laughing; the laughs sounded pretty fake, I'm sorry to say. It sounded like they were reading it on the script instead of really laughing. However, that aside, the script was still wonderfully adapted to audio form.


Advice:
I actually had trouble listening to some of this to be honest, the last part of working for Nook and the credits both seemed to cut off at random, but that might have just been my computer not loading them properly. I would suggest uploading this stuff to SheezyArt if you have an account, it handles audio better than Putfile seems to do, and you can actually add a description to it on SheezyArt.


Overall:
Overall... An awesome little radioplay, for an equally awesome game. And I have to say, the radioplay really puts you in the mood to play the game. Heck, I'm playing it right now.


I hope to see more of your work sometime. :)

[Mario Murderer]

=D

I like this! I never knew you were actually making a radio play on Animal Crossing, because if I did i'd be all over it -D


The script is very good but sometimes the audio quality sort of fades out/in at some parts, probably because of the mics certain people used....but other than that I like it! Good job!

[andy ichigo]

Funniest blooper reel I've ever heard. xD

Loved all the performances! Mixing was spot in as well~

"Why would I need questions what the hell?!"

"That's me pretending I can sing. hahahahahaha." <--- Love it. xD

[River Kanoff]

I never commented on this?

I have this radioplay on my iPod, it was one of my debut roles, I love it. I'm a huge fan of Animal Crossing as well, so I jumped on this and the movie dub, and landed roles in both. I was glad to be a part of this! Thanks, Pat!