Chapter 316: Chinese Voiceover for Animation
While ng Fan told Dai Workshop he was going to the Chocolate Factory, Wu Ji and others were on a flight back to China.
Initially, there were more than ten days of training scheduled at the MMA Asia training camp. After the group fight at the Kyoto Do, however, everyone involved had to stop their training.
The rest of the people, who were doing group training at a dojo, also had to make changes. At the very least, more than half of the friendship gas and the formal competitions couldn’t continue, so the group training’s effectiveness was greatly affected.
The MMA Asia training camp had been held for seven years, and this year’s session was undoubtedly the least effective.
“Ji Bro.”
Lao Hei switched seats and sat next to Wu Ji. He asked curiously, “Do you think Master ng would agree?”
Wu Ji looked at Lao Hei sideways, “You call Ji Bro and that kid Master ng? What’s wrong with this picture?”
“Aye, I’m a moron.”
Lao Hei slapped his face and asked again. “Okay, Ji Bro, do you think your brother-in-law would agree?” He then chuckled. “Ji Bro, is this a better way to call Master ng?”
Wu Ji didn’t want to waste ti arguing with Lao Hei, but the older man’s question did annoy him. He thought and replied, “I doubt he’d agree. ng Fan is afraid of pain. I had asked if he was interested in MMA fights before. He’s probably not interested in this challenge fight either. This fight is not a contract fight, but it is a formal MMA fight.”
Lao Hei seed to agree, though he did look a little resigned. “Even though Master ng is not a formal MMA fighter, he’s obviously really good. It was crazy how those professional Korean and Japanese fighters challenged Master ng, an amateur fighter. I was really looking forward to Master ng throwing down those two, especially that Korean guy. He was too cocky.”
“Too cocky? You better practice, so you can win one day!”
“Ji Bro, don’t provoke . I really do want to beat him!”
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“‘The Croods 2?'”
ng Fan greeted a group of people when he arrived at the Chocolate Factory, then he saw the na of the Dreamworks film. His eyes lit up. “Is this ‘The Croods 2?’ It’s definitely playing?”
“The Croods” played in ’13; it had great ratings and reviews. This film was one of ng Fan’s favorites from Dreamworks.
After the great box office and reviews, Dreamworks quickly started production of the sequel. But due to operational reasons, industry competition, and company rgers, the film was postponed from ’17 to ’18. Then the film was stopped by the producers. It wasn’t until one year after Dreamworks was acquired by Universal, and during ’17 that the project was relaunched and confird to air the following year.
After several cancellations, ng Fan thought there was no chance the film would air the following year. But now, the Chinese voiceover schedule is out, so it’s pretty certain the film will air next year.
“Where’s the sample film?”
ng Fan was excited and wanted to see the film.
Charlie chuckled. “There’s no sample, just a few clips. We’re still picking the cast, so we don’t have a sample. When we have finished casting, we’ll have a sample. As far as I know, this film would play around the Lunar New Year, so it’s two months away. There could be a sample film in a month.”
ng Fan was a little disappointed. Well, at least he would have a few clips to watch, it was better than watching the trailer.
“Director Di was Ugga in the first Croods movie, she was the Chinese voiceover for the female lead’s mom. This ti, she’d probably be the dubbing director for the whole movie. She gave the voiceover schedule.”
Charlie took out the character cards and told ng Fan, “When I was waiting for you, I called Director Di and told her you were here. She said so of the cast from the first film would be replaced and recomnded you to be the voice for Guy, Ugga’s brother Tank, or the new villain in the second film. They’re all important characters.”
To be honest, Charlie was envious. Di Feifei really valued ng Fan.
ng Fan seed eager. “Let’s watch the clips.”
While most young people liked to watch the original when watching films from overseas, Chinese-dubbed versions were still a big part of the market. There have been so classics with dubbed versions. So of them were even better than the original, such as dubbed versions of animations from Disney, Dreamworks, and Pixar.
Take “Croods,” for example, ng Fan watched the dubbed version during his first task when he couldn’t get the original. The quality was beyond his expectation. Even after he watched the original version while doing the second task, the voice of Grug was still Tony Leung and not the original voiceover actor, Nicholas Cage.
Of course, the voiceover for Guy was still quite different from the original voice. It wasn’t so much that Huang Xiaoming did a bad job, but that Ryan Reynolds was too good.
After they watched the clip and voiceover requirents, ng Fan gave samples for all three important roles Director Di recomnded him for. It would be up to Director Di and the Chinese producers to decide if he’d get any of the roles.
ng Fan was efficient, so he got the samples done in very little ti. While the other CVs were still hard at work at the workshop, he got to leave.
He rushed back to school to Hu Heng’s workshop just in ti for Wu Tong. The two of them smiled at each other. Together, they walked toward the girls’ dorm. Wu Tong put her arm inside ng Fan’s.
So he ca all this way just to walk Wu Tong back to the girls’ dorm. There were less than 400 ters between Hu Heng’s workshop and the dorm, yet ng Fan managed to turn the walk into 1,314 steps. If ti allowed, ng Fan could easily walk another 520 steps.
Of course, if Wu Tong allowed, ng Fan wouldn’t walk to the girls’ dorm at all.
“What if you moved in?”
ng Fan had wanted to say this for a hundred tis but still didn’t dare.
“It’s getting colder. Go ho.”
Downstairs from the girls’ dorm, Wu Tong closed ng Fan’s collar and gave him her scarf. She said, “Let’s jog twenty minutes later than usual starting tomorrow. Do you have a hand warr? Bring one next ti, you’d feel warr.”
ng Fan grabbed Wu Tong’s hand, he chuckled. “This is my hand warr. I do want to keep it with all the ti.”
“Stop fooling around. Go ho already.”
Wu Tong rolled her eyes at ng Fan and headed back into the dorm. She smiled at everyone who saw them.
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