Sam and Max Abridged
I'm surprised no one's mentioned this yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6mA_EOvAM
I've watched it, and it's really funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6mA_EOvAM
I've watched it, and it's really funny!
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LOL, it's funny because their voice are so silly. But the dialogue's good, and I love how they did Bosco.
Also, epic win for the MAH BOI bit at the end. XD
Also, I get the feeling the guy who made it is one of those people who hates the Telltale episodes simply because they're not Hit the Road.
Methinks it's BadAsp - I could be wrong.
Given that he is the one who started this topic, that seems likely.
I know that what I may have done to several people on this forum may have been wrong... but the truth is, I don't like when some people on this forum have done wrong to me. I have feelings too, you know.
Anyway, I had to make the video because I don't think anyone has made an "abridged series" for the Sam and Max franchise. I may have stolen jokes from LittleKuriboh, but I'll try to cut down on doing that in the future. As for sound quality, I will use Audacity instead of Sound Recorder (which is what I used here).
Please don't ban me again. I really want to be here.
As for the others from Episode 1, I'm gonna keep voicing them myself... yep, even Sybil!
1) I don't think anyone appreciates being banned.
2) Everyone knows you have feelings. But sometimes one must be humble, (young grasshopper) in these circumstances. It's cool to stand up for what you think and believe. You were banned for a reason, though, and as snarky and hurtful as comments to your cause may have sounded, you shouldn't take these to heart. This is the internet, and whilst some etiquette would be nice, we have loose tongues and flamers here. Don't expect everyone to be nice. Sad but true.
3) They certainly haven't, and good on you for being the first.
4) What makes a series is originality, not trying to ride onto the scene on someone else's work. (This isn't a jab at you, this is a general fact. Even if the material you're using is good, if a source is constantly used and if it's well-known material, people will perceive this as bad and lazy scriptwriting.) If you want to make a good series, you need to think hard about being original - something which is sadly difficult to do.
(Pop culture references are fine, as long as they're not all you're riding on. Then again, the Simpsons have been using that formula for over 20 years... Maybe I should rethink that statement.)
5) It's not the quality of sound recording you're lacking on, mate. But that's always good to prioritise.
Apologies for sounding high-and-mighty.
But yeah If there was one part of that mess I actually liked it was "Driving!" (Also, Bosco is more purple coloured, but I don't think that matters too much)
Naruto wasn't funny to begin with, even when they try. Naruto Abridged was a little funnier than that so, yeah it gained a little fame.
It was only funny in the "moo" part, and yeah they milked the hell out of it.
I see what you did there.
My question is, has anyone actually TRIED to abridge something funny before this?
I know one for sure that it wouldn't work for, Bo-bobo Bo Bobo-bo. That was gag manga/anime on its own, ridiculous to new extremes.
However the morphed voices were impossible to understand, kind of ruining the experience.
Keep it up, but avoid voice morphing next time!
Heh heh... moo.
Why should we care about him? It's not like he's important to the plot or anything!
*bonk* *bop* *bonk*
... Or we can do that.
Unless you're Deadpool.
Haha.
There's two ways of changing the apparent pitch of a voice in digital post production - pitch shifting, which decreases/increases the actual, physical pitch of the signal, and formant shifting, which is a little cleverer. I don't want to get into a big technical description into what formants are, but it's to do with the shape and length of the object causing the sound - in this case, a throat. Higher formants make the voice sound high and squeaky despite being at the same pitch in pure musical terms, and lower formants make the voice deep and boomy. This is why it sounds different when a man (low formant), a woman (higher formant) and a child (high formant) all sing the same note.
The reason I'm bringing up formant shifting is because, even when done to extremes, it leads to a more comprehensible result than pitch shifting. For speech to be easily understandable, we have to have high frequency 's' and 't' sounds, which are lost when a signal is pitch shifted downwards more than a little.
Since verbal comedy is only funny if you can hear the words, you might want to think about using formant shifting instead of pitch shifting, especially if you're shifting your voice down. You should also get as close as you can to the voice of one of the characters, and then use post production to nudge that signal a few semitones down/up, rather than using your normal speaking voice range and making pitch shifting do all the work, because it can't and won't.
Oh yeah, to do formant shifting, there's a ton of free VST plugins out there which you can use with Audacity or anything more upmarket than that. Or, if you have Auto-Tune, it has a Formant knob - turn off all the pitch correction settings first, though, or Bosco will sound like T-Pain.
Is it bad that I now want to hear a Bosco auto-tune song?