Invincible
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moonarchia
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I think VA guild is separate from SAG, so we can expect a lot of animated shit the next year or three.
Caliane
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I don't see any hits for "voice acting guild". I know crit role people are all Sag. and SAG-Aftra was responcible for the video game voice actor strike bakc in 2016-17.
everything I see says yes, voice actors are Sag-aftra.
moonarchia
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That's a pity then. Oh well. I still have a backlog longer than I can finish in one lifetime.
j00t
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SAG-AFTRA stands for Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. obviously that doesn't include "video games" as a specific mention, but radio is obviously voice acting. i assume it's a somewhat outdated title but they aren't going to adjust the name just to add to it's purview.
spronk
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SAG AFTRA includes video game voice actors. However the other side (corporations) of the strike is AMPTP which only covers movies and TV shows. The contract between video game studios and union members is different and not up for renewal for a few more years, they did strike way back in 2016 although I honestly don't remember if anyone gave a shit back then.
more shitty news though, invincible is gonna drop 4 eps in Nov and then another 4 in 2024. fuck you, amazon. 4 episodes is not a goddamn half season
anyone watch the one off yet? girl power or good?
more shitty news though, invincible is gonna drop 4 eps in Nov and then another 4 in 2024. fuck you, amazon. 4 episodes is not a goddamn half season
anyone watch the one off yet? girl power or good?
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j00t
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i just watched it, it was good. better animation quality than season 1, but that might be because it was designed as a one off, so more money was put into the quality. i don't know if i would expect the same quality from season 2. not that the animation in season 1 was bad, per se. anyway, no girl power or woke nonsense. it's just the origin story for Atom Eve. i never read the comics so i don't know how accurate it is or how much the embellished, but i enjoyed it.
Cybsled
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It's a good origin story for Atom Eve and gives a hint of the fact she is an Omega level power in terms of superheroes in this universe. She is basically Dr. Manhattan/Molecule Man /w some intentionally designed limitations that prevent her from being the most powerful being in the universe.
Some comic book non-specific spoiler info regarding some of the stuff they talked about with her inability to manipulate living tissue and the glimpse of her full powers we got at the end of the episode
Some comic book non-specific spoiler info regarding some of the stuff they talked about with her inability to manipulate living tissue and the glimpse of her full powers we got at the end of the episode
In the comics she eventually overcomes this to a degree. She learns to manipulate her own physical form and there are instances where she can essentially fully heal dying people/virtually dead people so long as they are in direct contact or extremely close proximity with her - although that is subconsciously controlled, so she can't just use that level of power on demand
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Kirun
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They're going to ruin the ratings for this show. Didn't SyFy do something similar with The Expanse back when they had it? Kept switching up timeslots, weird delays, etc.?
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j00t
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i think it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of thing. the writer/actor strike really messes everything up, which is exactly why they do it. but they could delay the release until everything clears up, but that causes money problems as well as not having any real clear answer on when they can release the season. i think it also really messes up payment for everyone because they make a ton of money from it once it airs, but until it does, they are running on limited budgets. i guess that falls into the "money problems" i mentioned earlier...
on the other hand, they could release what they will have available in november, just so there's SOMETHING new out for people (same idea behind the atom eve episode) so that it stays in the public consciousness... but then you piss people off because they have to wait until -TO BE DETERMINED-.
it's like that hulk vs wolverine comic from forever ago where the first issue has hulk ripping wolverine in half, adamantium spine be damned. then the next issue didn't come out for like, 6 months. so many people were ready to dig into that series but pretty much everyone forgot about it. i don't think it actually ever finished and it was only supposed to be like a 6 issue run.
anyway, my point is i don't know if there was a right way to release this show
cabbitcabbit
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Tuco
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I wonder what the legality is for imitating and deepfaking voice actors in subsequent seasons. Like, can Amazon pay JK Simmons for season 1 of voice acting and then just have someone imitate his voice and then deep-fake correct it if he doesn't sign up for following seasons? Omniman's voice is basically JK Simmons' classic voice and there are thousands of hours of JK Simmons voice out there to train on.
Malakriss
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The issue with AI is the small number of existing court cases have ruled that machines, programs, etc can not own copyright it has to belong to a human owner which in this case would be JK Simmons himself. The studios current demand is that everyone automatically signs away their likeness rights for AI, specifically faces and voices, for any employment going forward. You do one gig with a studio as an extra and they can add you into whatever they want in perpetuity, no further payment or contract required. Movies, TV shows, ads, video games, political campaigns, etc etc.
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The question is, are you imitating and deepfaking an actors voice or are you just generating the voice of a character that actor was playing?
If they don't mention the actors name at all, and it just sounds similar (and they'd be smart to make it a little different just to avoid conflict) how can someone say you impersonated an actor?
