- Before this stream started--
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- We were talking about playing
Granblue Fantasy: Versus,
and the way that Pat pitched
it to me was that Pat was like,
Oh, you know, it'll be
great because you know,
SungWon loves anime and it's
also like a gatcha game.
And they're like, you know,
it'll be like a lot of his interests,
fully unaware that SungWon
voices someone in this game.
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I want to talk to you about
obviously voice acting,
specifically for this game.
- Okay.
- How did it like come about
to you first and foremost,
like, how did you get the job?
And then like, what was
the job actually like?
- I got the job, I was sent the audition
and I auditioned for a
couple of characters,
but Vaseraga was the one that I booked.
And then it was really fun, actually.
It was a lot of screaming,
a lot of like efforts and stuff,
but the character is really fun to play.
And also this was one of those
jobs where you get to, like,
in some sessions they like
will play the Japanese
and you get to kind of
like copy the sounds
or whatever on your end,
so yeah, it was fun.
- That's nice.
I wanna focus in on efforts
'cause that's, I think,
what I'm most interested in
here in like a fighting game.
- Sure.
- How did you do that?
What was the experience
like of just being (grunts)?
Like, I don't even know what it's like.
So I do wanna know how you
grunt in different ways.
- Oh, sure.
Well usually, it's like, you're
looking at an Excel sheet,
like I'm not kidding, like an Excel sheet
of just like different
descriptions of efforts
and it'll be like light jab, ax swing.
And sometimes they get like
really descriptive like--
- (chuckles) They have
to frame that on there.
- Well some, no joke,
like in a lot of cases,
because this is a fighting game,
you have to get efforts within
like a certain second mark.
So it'll be like, you have 2.3 seconds.
He swings his ax into
the air in an arc motion
and swings it back down.
So it's like (grunts) like that.
You gotta like match it and they're like,
Oh, it's 2.7, we got to
shave it down, do it again.
But they're usually
pretty good about like,
especially the engineer, engineers in like
a voiceover session are like incredible.
'Cause they do all the worrying
and all the busy work
for you in terms of edit,
making sure you're good.
And then there's stuff where it's like,
if you have to match a
cut scene specifically
like the ultras or stuff in this game,
where they're very specifically animated,
then you're just straight up dubbing
to the action on screen.
- You have played, so not
only, I was gonna say,
I just in video games, so
you've played this character.
You've played FL4K in
Borderlands 3, is that right?
Beastmaster.
They were very interesting character and
also I was gonna say like,
they distorted your voice
a little bit for that one too, right?
- A little bit, yeah.
They added like a sort
of robot filter on it.
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- The hunt is everything
and the pack is always ready.
- I haven't played the
game yet, but in the game
it actually doesn't
sound nearly as modified.
In the trailer, I remember hearing it
sounding pretty, not like
completely unrecognizable,
but they definitely kind of did it.
But in the game itself, I recognize,
it's not, it's a lot less so, I feel.
- I was gonna ask,
do you have a favorite
character that you've voiced?
I'm sure you get this a lot too.
But like, the one that was more fun to do?
- They were all torturous,
just miserable experiences.
I mean, I don't necessarily
have a favorite,
but it's more like
there's just fun moments, I
guess, when recording, right?
And it sounds like a cop out,
but it's not necessarily,
I think, well, (sighs)
I mean at this point, 'cause
I've voiced FL4K for so long,
it's kind of fun knowing
like already instinctually
how the character will say
certain lines, I guess.
So, at this point maybe
FL4K actually just 'cause
what with all like all the DLC we've done
and the main game and
plus, in three, they talk,
the main characters talk a lot more
than in the previous games.
I mean, at this point,
like I know everything
that happens in the game,
I just haven't played it.
'Cause like, they have reaction lines
for like every possible mission and scene.
So probably my favorite ones
are ones where you can kind of
really have like multiple
sessions and kind of
really dig into and
get into the character.
- Probably, it sounds
a little bit stressful,
a little bit nerve wracking, but I guess
that's why you're a
professional voice actor--
- Definitely in the beginning for sure.
Like, I mean, in my very first sessions,
I was very, very nervous.
But then it's just a matter
of just after doing it,
you know, over and over and over again,
you just eventually,
like, I'm sure you know,
for you when you were,
I mean, you have like a
background in performance, right?
- (hems) I guess so.
- You've acted on stage, right?
- I've done, yeah.
- Yeah,
were you nervous in the beginning
or are you nervous every time?
- It's always a little bit
of nerves, I feel like.
- A little bit, I mean sure.
But obviously as you just
build experience or whatever
you know, it becomes more comfortable.
At this point, I would say I'm fairly,
I'm only nervous if it's like
if I haven't booked it yet,
but it's like a call back
or something like that.
Then obviously nerves really build up.
But otherwise if I have
the gig, it's like, well,
let's just go in and, you know, have fun.
- It's not like they can fire me. (laughs)
- They can.
- I think I finally got it.
Are you ready?
- They absolutely could
if they wanted to. (laughs)
- I've heard some of my more
cinema, film school friends--
- Oh, yes, I see.
- But yeah, (sighs) so
you've also done like,
I think what's interesting is that like
you can play characters
like that scary, big boy
that we just saw, but you've also played
a small cat king, is that right?
- Yeah, in Radiant.
- Yeah, and also I was gonna say,
you were in Tuca and Bertie, right?
- Yes.
- Which is coming back,
which is super exciting on Adult Swim.
- Yes, I'm very glad
when I heard the announcement about that.
- Super huge, but like
when you're swapping
between like the intense
King Dragon style deep voice,
and just like the goofy fun stuff,
are you expected to do
that all in like one day,
or are you doing it like different times?
Like, what's the way you get into
that intense voice versus
into the funny, goofy one?
- It's hard, it's like when people ask you
how do you act good?
And it's like, (mumbles) I don't know.
And you just kind of focus, right?
But I guess if you have a good director
who can like, 'cause I think
good directors are invaluable.
I think it's a combination
of like the director
and the reference and just sort of focus.
I think for me, my favorite
sessions are always ones where
and this sounds so like fucking cheesy,
but it's like when I'm really
into it and not even thinking
like, oh, this is a voice acting session.
I'm just like (sighs)
I become the character, but you
know what I'm talking about.
When you get so wrapped up in it, right?
When you get so into the moment
that you're not focusing on,
like, how do I read the line?
You're just kind of like, I'm just,
I am in the scene.
That's the most fun.
That was when I was a young, you know,
when I was like in high
school or whatever,
and I kind of like experienced
that for the first time.
Like we were just like,
my friend would just write
like radio plays and then we would just
sort of do them for fun.
But I remember very distinctly
when I actually got into it into it.
And like didn't think about
being self conscious or
like, oh, am I doing good
or am I doing it right,
and just sort of diving
into the character.
That was when I was like,
oh fuck, I want to do this.
Like more and more, this
is what I've discovered
what I wanted to do.
I don't know how that's gonna happen,
but that's what I want to do with my life.
- I'm sorry, I need to ask this question.
Where does "ProZD" come from?
- That is a secret I
will take to my grave.
(Brian screams)
(SungWon laughs)
Let me tell you this, I made that username
when I was in elementary school
and it's so embarrassing that
even my wife doesn't know.
I offered to tell her once, but
I was like, it will ruin it.
- That's the old me. (Brian laughs)
- It is so dumb.
And she was like, okay, I
guess I don't wanna know.
- Oh man.
- Unless we're married
Brian, unfortunately,
even then I might not tell you.
- Yeah, okay, I get it, I
understand, I understand.
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