[DoctorEldritch]

Hello Legion Gamers!

The winter celebrations are all behind us now (Chinese New Year notwithstanding), and it is time to greet the new year with a new theme of the month: arts and hobbies!

We've had a nice talk about resolutions and plans for the new year. But plans for the new year are not limited by resolutions, for we also plan and hope to spend some time on gaming. I mean, on our favorite hobbies and arts. 😅

So this month we'll look into art, hobbies, and everything in between. And, as always, will collect all related discussions in this thread. So if you have an interesting hobby and would want to share, this is a perfect time!

January hobbies and Arts: related content:

We started with the "5 Hobbies" theory

And talked about hobbies in games

Started a word search game

And a discussion about Passive Hobbies

[DracoTarot]

@DoctorEldritch Yay!! Sounds exciting!!

[M2lobaz]

my hobby trying to mimic some voicelines of any entertainment content characters as for example
I can mimic this whole scene with my own voice: Chase Scene
this one too: MW2 Wolverines Intro
and many other scenes and characters, I hope someday I get that lucky draw to work as a Voice Actor for a massive project maybe😅

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a bonus fact you might like @DoctorEldritch I'm really inlove with the Russian language because of the voicelines in Battlefield4, I really like how they sound, so I searched about them understood them and learned how to pronounce them and mimic these voicelines...
I used this Vid as a reference: BF4 Russian Voicelines

[Saka]

Nice topic for the theme of the month. Starting the year on high motivation, huh?
I conjured up a wall of text about kendo: https://dev-v1-lenovo.giantsplatform...Kendo?p=100639

[DoctorEldritch]

@M2lobaz I guess it is the creative/mindset hobby, eh? By Massive you mean how massive, provide a voice for a film or something like that?

When I was working in game localization, one of the things I was always noticing is that there are 2 ways that voicing goes. They either hire an actor who is not Russian to say it (happens in movies all the time), and then you do not get "Russian Russian", instead, you get "What Americans (or whoever, it's just most of those movies come from Holywood) think Russian sounds like", not very natural. But, to be fair, that applies to any situation like this, in reverse, too: in Russian movies Americans or Chinese sound not like they actually sound. But there is a certain play at that, the ability to emphasize accent for effect.

Or you can hire a native actor, but translation would still not sound entirely natural because, in a different language, you'd say the whole thing differently. And there is also a timing issue, as in, each Russian phrase should take as much time to say as it is in English, I remember me and my team were counting syllables of the lines to make them match and had to find shorter or longer synonymous words so that recording would not overlap. Voiceovers are not easy. Would be interesting to hear how your Russian is.

As for the link, the beginning is ok, but in the middle, you can hear an accent, I am not sure if the voice actor is proper Russian, or maybe from the southern part of it.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka It is a wall!

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch I know! Somehow when I sit down to write something properly it usually ends up inflicting critical strikes. 😅

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka it is not a bad thing, you're thorough and detailed.

[M2lobaz]

@DoctorEldritch
yep you're right about that Accent Emphasize point..it's a widely known idea
as for BF4 russian voicelines, I always ask in the public in-game chat about How good the russian voicelines in this game, many russian players answered me it works but not that great and they needed more work, but for me who had zero experience with the native language I liked how they sound

[Saka]

I think that's a common thing with languages spoken by people without close to native oevel of fluency. They can be mostly correct yet sound strange or make small mistakes. Especially idiomatic expressions tend to be difficult.