NikkiKora's Demo Reel - Spring 2009

[RamiLeli]

NIKKIKORA'S 2009 SPRING DEMO REEL!



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Characters, in order of appearance:
Rei (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Patty (Lucky Star)
Takano (Higurashi)
Ash (Pokemon)
Lucy (Elfen Lied)
Konata (Lucky Star)
Haruko (FLCL)
Yui (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Mamimi (FLCL)
Taiga (Toradora!)
Hinata (Naruto)

Picture is of Fuko-chan from Clannad since she's so damn MOEEEE. ♥



Critique is YAY~! ♥



Self-critique:

1.) I'm not so sure that I really displayed a good enough range. I probably should have thrown in another boy voice, maybe an teenage one. D:

2.) I hate when my mic peaks. ¦D

3.) MUST DOWNLOAD MOAR BG MUSIC.

[xSPADEofHEART]

Hiya~ Nice demo you have here.:3 Emotion-wise you're pretty solid, but you could afford to go further with it and make it more easily distinguishable on what you're trying to convey. I'll agree that there could be a bigger range, but I think that it was pretty big already, at least bigger than mine.xD The demo was a bit long, maybe shorten it by about 20 seconds and remove the opening? For the 1st voice (Rei) it was slightly hard to hear you over the music as well. Lucy and Takano basically sounded the same and I would have removed Lucy as the emotion was less well-done.

Great job~!!

[RamiLeli]

@Spade: Thank you so much!! ^_^
That's very true, I'll definitely work on getting across emotions further!! I've actually been wanting to REALLY get into gear with emotions, but, unfortunately, I recorded the lines for this before I made that resolution~ ¦D;; *sucks*

Yeah, I agree with you that it's a bit too long. I couldn't figure out which clip to remove, but I do think that Lucy was my weakest, by far, so thank you. XD

And I'll absolutely watch the music-to-voice volume! *salute* >:3

Thank you so much for all the great critique! T^T

[majia]

Awesome job mixing and even better reel! I have to agree with spade your emotions were all solid. Your ash cracked me up! xD I had a flashback of the pokemon days! I love you range as well and you gave plenty of energy with some characters and some sound a bit similiar. However, definitely enjoyable xD I shouldn't be on here lol so my sound is low lol so I can't realllly hear the sound quality problems, but I have no complaints. Great job! /cheer

[Estellise]

Haha this was totally awesome! I loved your Ash voice, haha! your emotions were perfect. Although the Lucy one seemed like it needed a little more work on it, not that it was bad of course it just didn't have as much emotion as the rest, but this was a great demo reel Great job! <3

[Izzy]

Well, you defiantly have an impressive vocal range!
Critique:
Your Neon lines both had quite a few puffs in there. ^^;; I also have to agree that you Lucy and Takano sounded kind of a like. Your emotion delivery was great! I loved the characters you choose! But I'd say remove the list of characters. Once people see that list, they auto-maticly want to compare your voice with the orginal. And I don't think you want that. The main point of the demo is to show off the range [and to which you did]. 8D; Over all, great job<33.

[Koichi_Saito]

Great range of voices NikkiKora! I'm impressed with the mixing and the vocal quality of the voices. Keep up the good work!

[BladeBlur]

NikkiKora, you have definitely impressed me. My only real gripe is Lucy and Takano sounding the same. If you removed one of them the demo will be shorter. Other than that, good job!

[Sasuya]

Heya NikkiKora~

Pretty good job on your demo reel, here is what I thought-

First off, the voices you did were pretty good, but I've heard that it's better to do original voices and scripts rather than take from various anime. People want to hear what voices you can do, not who you can impersonate. Also, some of the voices sounded the same or too close in range. Also, including range, I think the emotion could have used work as well. Most of the voices sounded very stale. I felt like all the clips had a very 'monotone' feel to them. Even if they originally sound like that, you shouldn't have multiple clips with the same emotion in them.
Another thing is that I felt the demo was a bit too long. Try shortening it down a little. The clips in the demo were either too long or too short. Try making them around the same size. Also, the opening and ending of the demo wasn't exactly something that made a lasting impression. The first voice should catch the attention of the listener and the last voice should leave an impression on the listener. I think that's pretty much it.

In the future, to sum it all up, I would suggest you choose clips that are around the same size. Also choose clips that fully show your range. There were too many medium monotone clips; choose clips that show a wide row of emotion. There seemed to be too many monotoned clips here. Shorten the demo a bit, and have them effectively arranged to show the contrast. Also, I noticed that some voices didn't have any music, I would suggest adding some music in those empty clips too. That's it!

Not bad NikkiKora, I hope to hear some more from you in the future!

[Koichi]

I really liked your demo reel, the Rei lines did sound a bit low compared to the music, like the others have said a few of the voices could have used different tones, and I would have liked to hear a longer hinata line. The mixing was really good, and you showed a wide range of emotion and vocal range, good job!