The Extreme Voicing Series with Sébastien Croteau
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About the Masterclass
Join us for a series of 3 online workshops with Sébastien Croteau - President of The Monster Factory and an expert on vocal stunt work and sound creation of the voices of monsters and creatures.
Sébastien has worked on more than 30 video games (including Gotham Knights, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed 2, and has lent his voice to more than 200 characters.
Extreme Voicing Workshop 1 :
Title : Monster and Creature Sounds for video games
Discover the voice techniques behind monster and creature sounds in video games.Each category of creature and monster has a specific voice type and voice technique related to it. You will learn all about it and about what to do when preparing for an audition or a recording session for these specific sounds.
3 hours
Extreme Voicing Workshop 2:
Title : The Art of Environmental Sounds (Onos & Grunts) for video games
Environmental sounds are prevalent in video games. Effort, running, block, idle, attack, choke and death sounds (among others) can be heard everywhere. This workshop is an introduction to those sounds and how to perform them realistically. You will learn about each sound's stress level (and how to identify them) and what to discuss with the voice director before a recording session. You will also learn about the most common type of environmental sounds and how to perform the different variations required.
3 hours
Extreme Voicing Workshop 3:
Title : An introduction to vocal distortion and vocal stunt work
Extreme sounds are prevalent in video games and movies and vocal stunt work is challenging for any voice talent except... if you are a metal vocalist. Metal vocalists have been used in video games since early 2000 to lend their voice to monsters and creatures and to do vocal stunt work. Their vocal endurance and their capacity to master vocal distortion are unmatched.
This workshop is an introduction to learn more about vocal distortion, the myths surrounding it, the science behind it, vocal health for extreme sounds but most importantly, it will give you tips and tricks on how to warm up properly for vocal stunt work.
3 hours
Your Trainer
Sébastien Croteau
Metal vocalist since 1991 (Necrotic Mutation) and throat singer (Tibetan, Mongolia and Inuit throat-singing) since 1996, Sébastien Croteau masters an impressive number of extreme vocal techniques. He began teaching metal voices and throat-singing 15 years ago. Since then, he has trained hundreds of metal vocalists and voice talents around the world and he is a renowned expert in vocal distortion, extreme sounds and creature voice design.
It is thanks to these techniques that he began to work for video games companies in 2005. Since then, he has specialised in vocal stunt work and sound creation of the voices of monsters and creatures. He has worked on more than thirty video games (including Gotham Knights, Meet your Maker, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Dead by Daylight, Dungeons and Dragons:Dark Alliance, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Far Cry 5, Rainbow Six Siege: Outbreak, Prince of Persia – The Forgotten Sands and Assassin's Creed 2) and has lent his voice to more than 200 Characters.
For the past few years, he has been a casting director and a voice director for various projects. He also teaches voice acting at INIS (National Institute of Sound and Image) in Montreal. In 2018, he created a company called The Monster Factory, a talent agency that specialises in extreme sounds, vocal stunts and creature/monster voices with more than 100 metal vocalists/voice talents around the world.
Details
The Extreme Voicing Series with Sébastien Croteau
Workshop 1 - Thurs 25th January
Workshop 2 - Thurs 1st February
Workshop 3 - Thursday 8th February
Location: Online
Cost: £270 (inc. VAT) for 9 hours of workshop
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