ZeroGwafa First Demo Reel

[ZeroGwafa]

Hey all! I'm fairly new here and I figured I should post a demo reel showcasing my general range of voices and emotions. Critiques are always welcome!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J80AgAxc-VA"]YouTube - Demo Reel 2009[/ame]

EDIT: Added a YouTube link in case you would rather hear it from your browser.

Please Enjoy!

[Hatomikazuki]

To start off, you did a really nice job with distinctly different characters...But one thing that I thought when hearing your 'robots and rose garden line' as well as a few others was that you do seem to have a very nice voice for commercial voice over; you have a very friendly casual sound to your voice that suits that kind of work well. When I heard the 'rose bush robot' line I actually, at the beginning of the line (before I heard the rest of it) almost thought you decided to use a professional commercial demo line in your character demo...Which was odd...It wasn't bad, but...Hm...I'd mainly say with lines like that try to add a bit more character to them, even if the character is just 'the guy next door.'

Second, although I found your characterization quite nice, the voices were all in about the same vocal range. I'd like to hear some deeper voices, and lower voices along with the different textures and characters. Going hand in hand with this, one note on your acting; a few of the lines didn't have the energy I was looking for in building lines like some of them were. So make sure you keep your energy up and don't hold back. I could hear quite a few times you were when things either got silly, or intense.

Um...Also, try to cut your demo down. As it stands now, it was too long. A lot of the 'casual' lines could be cut, because they sound very similar and don't add much to the demo (try to add a wider variety of emotions to show you can do them; casual is great but your kind of casual is what I look for in a commercial demo...). You could also shorten some lines, like the pirate one.

The mixing was quite nice, and so were the music choices. You might want to cut some of those tiny pauses between lines so the demo flows just a bit better, but overall the mixing sounded good.

You're very talented, and I can't wait to hear more from you! For your first demo reel, this is excellent, and I can't wait to see how much you improve, hope this helped!

[ZeroGwafa]

Hey, thanks for the critique!
Your input is very valuable to me, as this is a hobby that i've been wanting to get into for a while but wasn't sure on how to get started!

@ everyone

I have made some minor changes to my mp3, mostly cutting out the pauses between each voice. I am currrently playing with some new voices that i've developed over the past couple of weeks, and I will post an update when I finish mixing it.

Also, I am adding a youtube link in case anyone would rather stream the demo instead of downloading the MP3.