Discover the voices giving life to the characters you love.
Charlotte McBurney and Logan Hannan returned to our
#SIDELondon
studio to be recorded as Amicia and Hugo while Kit Connor and Lucy Briggs-Owen join the cast as Lucas and Beatrice.
#APlagueTaleRequiem
#StudioRecording
Today, we celebrate Martin Vaughan, our Head of Casting, who is departing SIDE after 17 remarkable years. Martin, our "human IMDB," transformed video game casting, championing diversity and spotting emerging talent.
You'll be deeply missed, Martin. Best wishes! 💚
This morning, we’re basking in the wake of a record-breaking launch day for
#Endwalker
☄
We've provided voices for FFXIV since A Realm Reborn, and are so proud of crafting a cast players have fallen in love with 💕
Congrats
@FF_XIV_EN
&
@SquareEnix
!
Our Casting Director Martin Vaughan, CDG hits 14 years at SIDE today! 75+ titles casting amazing actors for franchises The Witcher, Assassin’s Creed, Battlefield, Final Fantasy, Hitman & many more. He’s our Human IMDB and a fan of a good video call background. Congrats, Martin!
Like so many, we have been horrified by the humanitarian crisis resulting from the war in Ukraine.
That's why we're joining forces with
@PTW
and
@IGN
, and some of the game industry’s biggest voice acting talent to fundraise for Ukraine!
We're partnering with the incredible team at The Imaginarium Studios!
Together, we'll provide a seamless performance capture pipeline for dev teams, with creative control and visibility over every step. Read more here:
#mocap
#gameaudio
#partnership
Meet
@C_McBurney
, Amicia's brilliant voice actress.
Charlotte, interviewed at our London studios, as were her many, many hours performing as Amicia, tells us about how she relates to her character, what keeps her focused, and her favorite line.
@Focus_entmt
@APlagueTale
"I was actually working as a nanny, so I feel like that was some good preparation for looking after Hugo and protecting him... Although I can't say that any of the kids I looked after had the ability to control rats."
Meet
@C_McBurney
, Amicia's amazing voice actress!
Join us in congratulating our Head of Casting, Martin Vaughan, on his 16-year work anniversary here at
#SIDELondon
!
Thank you for everything you’ve done for the team and the organization as a whole throughout the years. Here's to many more.
#anniversary
@TinoTwoDinners
SIDE is indeed back and recording - safely, of course. We'll be running on site with a low head count and all the safety precautions, with much of the team working from home. Great to have our fab casts back in the booth!
#videogames
#audioproduction
#casting
🎙️😷🎭😍
OBJECTION!
#TheGreatAceAttorney
Chronicles is out today ⚖
We conspired with Capcom on the English dub, guilty on all charges of Casting, Directing, Studio Recording and Post-production 👩⚖️
Read the full story from Localization Director Janet Hsu 👉
Annnnnddd that's a wrap! 6 hours done! A massive thank you to everyone that supported us today and took part. Our final stream donation count came to £87,522.69!
#InTheGameForUkraine
@BritishRedCross
@IGN
@PTW
The epic
@nolan_north
is joining us for an upcoming Q&A. Get your questions ready and prepare to head into 'Uncharted' territory (see what we did there 👀).
#InTheGameForUkraine
Many congratulations to our Senior Technical Director Anthony Hales for ⭐️20 years⭐️with SIDE.
Celebrating 20 years of Anthony taking care of that special "SIDE" sound and helping to set up almost the same number of studios across London, LA and Shanghai! Here's to many more...
We're delighted to be working w/
@LAMDAdrama
once again, giving insight into video game casting & performance to BA (Hons) Professional Acting, MA directing, & technical students. Taught by
@SaxonKate
w/ guest appearances from Audio's Fred,CD
@TinoTwoDinners
& HOP
@Sini_in_Studio
Meet Harry Myers and Lucy Briggs-Owen, the amazing actors giving their voices to Arnaud and Béatrice in
@APlagueTale
.
Interviewed from our London studio, they share insights on their in-game characters and their touching journey with "play-like" emotions throughout the game.
"What I've loved in this game more than any other I've done so far is the emotional journey. I've been able to do some real acting in this, almost like a play."
Meet Harry Myers & Lucy Briggs-Owen, the voices behind Arnaud and Béatrice de Rune. Two fighters, in their own ways.
A small update from SIDE, further to our CEO's recent announcement: "Our number one priority in every decision we are making is keeping our employees, clients, and external providers safe and healthy."
#SideUK
#SideLA
#videogames
Huge congratulations to all the nominees and winners of yesterday's
@thegameawards
!
We are proud to have supported 14 titles nominated, some of whom took home a total of 11 awards at the show!
#TheGameAwards
We're incredibly delighted & humbled to have been nominated for this year's Develop:Star Awards - Best Creative Provider. If you are eligible to vote, we'd be eternally grateful for your consideration. 🙏
#SideUK
#DevelopStars
#Awards
#Nominee
#GameAudio
The
@BAFTAGames
Awards nominees for Audio Achievement 🔊🏆 are:
🎮 Battlefield V
🎮 Detroit: Become Human
🎮 God of War
🎮 Marvel’s Spider-Man
🎮 Red Dead Redemption 2
🎮 Tetris Effect
#BAFTAGames
"She is courageous and strong and despite her considerable loss and her trauma she never gives up she hopes for a better future and I think given the very serious state of the world right now that we can all take inspiration from Selene."
@janelizperry
Our
#SIDEParis
studio is officially open! 💚🇫🇷
We're thrilled to add another state-of-the-art
#VoiceProduction
studio to our roster and can't wait to see the amazing projects it'll bring. Merci to all who came and celebrated with us.
#StudioOpening
#Paris
📸Philippe Labrosse
We're so proud of everything the team's achieved over the past year, and honoured to see that recognised with the TIGA Award for Best Audio Services Supplier 2021!
Congratulations to all the other winners, especially our
@PTW
family for picking up Best QA/Localisation 🎉
We've got a lot to smile about lately, especially our partnership with
@Imaginarium_UK
! We'll be working together across the entire performance capture process to bring amazing characters to life
#teamwork
#mocap
#gamedev
We're not saying the Production & Casting teams are fuelled by booze (not at all!) but they do like a little tipple? Thank you
@SueTerryVoices
for the tasty start to the New Year!
Not sure how this is real but I am so honored and overwhelmed. Thank you
@BAFTAGames
for including me in this list of stellar and brilliant performers. A dream come true. Congrats to all the nominees and all the incredible creators and developers who gave us a place to play.
Your entire world belongs to one corporation: The Ascent Group. Can you survive its collapse? Prepare to face chaos in The Ascent, exclusively for the Xbox Series X.
#InsideXbox
@CurveDigital
@NeonGiantGames
1/2 Exciting times for those involved in
#Casting
! In fact, we're super proud of our very own Martin Vaughan, our in-house Casting Director (and long-time Side veteran), who has been accepted into the Casting Directors’ Guild. 📽️📢
#TriangleStrategy
is out now!
We were honoured to help
@SquareEnix
realise this tactical RPG with casting, recording and directing provided by our teams at SIDE London & SIDE LA. Congrats to the whole team!
Where will your sense of justice take you?
Don't pack those trunks quite yet, SIDE UK is still open for business!
#Videogame
Productions will continue (safely and with a very small crew) as we head into Lockdown 2.0.
We're still pinching ourselves, but this isn't a dream!
Today's release has to be seen.
We cannot explain how delighted we are,
Working with the Molecules, we've come so far!
A HUGE thank you to the team
@mediamolecule
for involving us in
#DreamsPS4
. 🙏
#SideUK
#audioproduction
#DreamsPS4
is out now, and we couldn’t be more proud.
This is as much your moment as it is ours. Thank you for joining us on this journey. Here we go. ❤️
#MadeInDreams
Leveling up their skills! 🎮🎭
#SIDELondon
was thrilled to host
@LAMDAdrama
's 3rd year BA students this week, diving into the world of
#videogame
acting with Sr Performance Dir
@SaxonKate
. From emotive shouts to mic technique, they're ready to take on any hero or villain role!
A big thank you to everyone we worked with in 2017; clients, talent, agents. It has been a great and exciting year for SIDE and we're already looking forward to the opportunities 2018 will bring. Have a very happy holidays all! 🥂🍾🤶🎄🎅🎊
Lovely to have
@AlixWiltonRegan
's mentee from her work with Black & South Asian talent,
@Saffy_I
, in the studio today. Working on exciting project, [REDACTED]. We finally got our pic, Saffy!
Thank you to all the amazing
@LAMDAdrama
students who attended our voice acting masterclass with
@janelizperry
and SIDE's own
@Sini_in_Studio
and
@TinoTwoDinners
. Whenever we run sessions like this, we're stunned by the huge amount of talent and passion on display!
We’re nominated for the Develop: Star award for Best Creative Provider!
It’s an honour to share a category with so many other incredible teams - roll on October 27th 🎉
Introducing the newly expanded
#SIDELA
studio space in Marina del Rey!
The studio’s capacity for dialogue production has more than doubled, enabling us to facilitate even more projects while providing our high degree of expertise and audio excellence.
👉🏻
Wow! What an achievement - £3,212 raised for
#Movember
. Super proud of this team! 👏
I heard ya trying to raise a stash,
by growing a handlebar ‘tash.
But remember, when ya through,
The Village People may kidnap you
and make you dance YMCA for cash!
Join us in looking back at what we've accomplished over 2022.
SIDE is a dream team of amazing professionals who put their hearts into every job for our clients and partners, and we want you to know that we appreciate you.
Let's celebrate and see what 2023 has up its sleeve.
Let the journey into the
#ForbiddenWest
begin! We reunited with Aloy and her friends, and are beyond proud to have done our part in realising parts of
#HorizonForbiddenWest
.
Recorded, directed and edited by our team at SIDE London. Are you ready for your ‘thunder’jaw to drop?
Earlier this year, we shared the exciting news of our partnership with the incredible team of motion capture experts at
@Imaginarium_UK
Now, we’re overjoyed to give you a look behind the scenes at what we’ve been up to, as well as some insight on what’s to come:
We brought together this talented cast to embark on a thrilling adventure. The response from players has been incredible, & we couldn't be prouder of our team being part of the immense effort in bringing this incredible journey to reality. ⚔️💚
🚨 SIDE NEWS 🚨
We will launch a new studio in Paris - coming in early 2023!
#SIDEParis
will join
#SIDELondon
,
#SIDEShanghai
, and the recently expanded
#SIDELA
to encompass the global roster of SIDE-owned studios around the world.
More here:
👉🏻