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D Casellian

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Voice Actor rep’d by DDO 🎙️Screenwriter in progress ✍️ Primary circus cranium at Flying Skull 🎪 Creative mind at Sparkholder ✨ TF nut 🤖 https://dcasellian.com

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · Jan 19

Say hello to my Interactive Demo!

Need a regal queen? Hunched over soothsayer? Cackling goblin? Perky gun slinger? I’ve got you covered. If you’ve got game, then let’s play!

#voiceactor #voiceover #videogame #gamedev

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 1h

Hanging at the library, assembling dialogue tracks and doing Official Voiceover Business. Libraries f*cking rule and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 1d

You think you’re ok but then your kid accidentally rams you in the face so hard you’re worried your nose might be broken and you realize the two hours you spent crying and doomscrolling afterward didn’t have much to do with how badly your nose hurts.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 4d

Someone just asked if I was the VA for a role that was actually voiced by Sumalee Montano and I am absurdly happy.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 5d

Script: I concur with your findings. However, I question your application of the data to our current circumstances. We require additional opinions, new perspectives. This matter is too great, and there is simply too much at stake for us to suppose that we alone discern the heart of it.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 5d

Putting a new spin on things. 1 script, 2 takes. Feel free to put your own spin on it! Script below 👇

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 9d

Being a grown up is just boiling water four or five times because you keep walking away from the stove without setting a timer.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 9d

I'm teaching an eclectic mix of yoga, stretching, hand balancing, and voice acting at the Mitten Mayhem Stage Combat Workshops in Ypsilanti, MI, October 25-26!

(Not a single one of those things is combat, but whatever. 😆)

Register here: www.mittenmayhem.com

Mitten Mayhem Stage Combat Workshop

A 2-day stage combat and movement regional workshop in SE Michigan. Held on Oct 28 - 29, 2023, join us for workshops taught by some of the best instructors from the stage combat and martial arts commu...

www.mittenmayhem.com

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 10d

They had me in the first half, ngl.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 10d

#voiceactor logic:

I’m so exhausted I’m ready to cry and it’s late and I wanna go to bed… but I’m gonna do this audition first, because if a dozen things I can’t control align perfectly with all the effort and practice and money I’ve put in, I might get to be the voice of this talking avocado! 🥑

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 11d

No one: We’re going on vacation to Aruba.

Me, busting through the wall like the Kool-Aid man: JAMAICA, OOO I WANNA TAKE YA TO BERMUDA…

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 19d

I just ran a file that’s almost silent through the ACX file checker… and it informed me that the file is too loud. 🙉

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 22d

Script, cont.-

…so their maps are… a little primitive. Some of them even lead to places that don’t exist.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 22d

Script:

If you ever need to get your bearings, just come over here to the cartography station. It contains charts from every era of Radial Six, even from pre-colonial times. Keep in mind that the original inhabitants of the planet didn’t have the same level of technology as we do…

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 22d

The first time was so much fun I thought I’d do it again. 1 script, 2 takes, choices were made.

Script below 👇

#voiceactor

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 22d

I’m so sorry. 😞

Reposted by D Casellian

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

www.yahoo.com

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 24d

📣 Late role announcement 📣

I may not like genAI, but I’m happy to play an eeevil AI gone awry. I’m the voice of Zoi in Rara Boom, out now on Steam, Xbox, and PS5. Many thanks to @gyleegames.bsky.social for letting me play along!

A small robotic boy wearing a brown hooded robe floats in a big ball of blue energy

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 26d

Script:

I’ve been working my ass off out here, and for what? For you to gamble away everything we had? That wasn’t just money... that was our way outta here. That was my life, and you wasted it! Well, I’m done wasting time. You’re on your own.

#voiceactor #voiceacting #narrator #voices #acting

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 26d

Trying something new! (Making videos out of it, not the script practice part.) Behind-the-scenes note that I did about six or seven takes of each of these “two takes” before I was content. 🥲

Script below 👇

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 27d

It’s my day off. I resolve to do nothing today. I need the rest. I could use the recharge. So today, I am doing nothing.

And also this pile of auditions.

But other than that, nothing.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · 28d

AAAHHHHH that’s so freaking cool!! Congratulations!

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · Sep 10

…and audio book narration also requires investments in training and equipment, and auditions which mostly won’t lead to work.

It’s also one gig at a time usually, so work isn’t guaranteed.

We’re not greedy or ungrateful, I promise.

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · Sep 10

Audio book narrators are paid per finished hour, not per hour of work.

It takes me about 5.5 hours to produce one finished hour.

$750 for a 5 hour book= $27/hr of work. Not bad, tho remember no taxes or benefits.

$750 for a 20 hr book= $6.81/hr of work. That’s why the rate is poor…

D Casellian @dcasellian.com · Sep 10

…is almost always gig work. You don’t show up every day at regular hours and collect a check on Friday. You sink hours into auditions you never get paid for, thousands of $’s into equipment and training, and there are still plenty of times you don’t have work.

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D Casellian @dcasellian.com · Sep 10

I sure wish that’s how it worked.

Narrators are paid per finished hour of audio, not per hour of work. So a 20 hour-long book represents at least 80 hours of work (and that’s working very fast). So it’s actually $750/80=$9.38 per hour. Not so good.

Also, audio book narration…

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