Chapter 217 - Shaping Characters Vocally (1/2)
Chapter 217: Shaping Characters Vocally
“Ding! You’ve triggered an achievement task [Studio Bug].”
“The task requires you to dub 100 roles, and spend 10,000 minutes inside a recording studio.”
“Upon completion, you will receive achievement title [Studio Bug] (dubbing skill +5, voice appeal +3)”
The task was divided into three phases.
Task phase 1: Requires dubbing of 10 roles; reward: dubbing skill +1.
Task phase 2: Requires dubbing of 50 roles; reward: dubbing skill +1.
Task phase 3: Requires dubbing of 100 roles; reward: dubbing skill +1.
A dubbing mission!
Meng Fan had been waiting for this task. However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t trigger it. He was even beginning to question the muddled chicken soup in his mind telling him to try, persist, and achieve a beautiful life”.
He already tried so hard, how else could he achieve it?!
He didn’t get what he wanted, but of course, he had immediately triggered what he didn’t want.
Now he understood. It didn’t matter how much he dubbed in his spare time, it had to be official to count.
Thinking about the time of the task, he must have triggered it after his dubbing clip was approved by director Charlie. In other words, the system judged that his voice dub could become the official dubbing of the character or even the original dubbing?
Official dub, Original dub?
Regardless, Meng Fan felt these were the only two options.
Meng Fan already knew the title [Studio Bug] was a nickname for a voice actor related achievement. This was because they often spent long durations in the studio, hence where the name came from.
The rewards were not bad though. There were +8 voice acting skills and +3 vocal appeal.
Although the three task phases did not include much-added attributes, it was still acceptable.
Meng Fan felt that as long as he remains open-minded, doesn’t request any lead characters, and takes any role available, the 100 roles required for the task shouldn’t be too difficult.
10,000 minutes?
This request scared Meng Fan a little.
The three task phases didn’t have a time requirement, so it meant that he had to meet this separately outside of the three tasks in order to gain the title.
Why was he scared? Because Meng Fan sucked at math!
He was immediately put off upon seeing the number 10,000. He immediately used the live stream assistant to calculate it. The result was okay. 10,000 minutes equaled to less than 167 hours. As long as he sucked it up and closed himself in the studio for 10 hours a day, he could finish the task in half a month.
This task wasn’t too hard.
Of course, this all depended on if he could actually acquire any roles or not.
“This is done, let’s do the next line.”
Seeing Meng Fan’s stunned expression, Charlie pushed the button and spoke to Meng Fan from outside the studio.
Since the requirement for sound quality was high, no outside sound was allowed inside the room. Hence, the studio was very secure and soundproof, and even though modern recording studios have high-tech temperature control functions, it was still very hot and stuffy inside.
Shortly after entering, Meng Fan was covered in sweat.
Hence, 10,000 minutes was not a low number either.
But Meng Fan had a way to deal with it!
He raised his hands to gesture, then went to the bathroom. When he returned, he was already wearing his tracksuit. The studio’s temperature adjustment system was average at best to accommodate the soundproofing and was no match for the temperate control functions of his tracksuit.
He felt so much cooler!
This video game character had a dozen or so more lines, which all went along the procedure of Meng Fan dubbing it once, Charlie correcting him once and then officially recording it once. When it got to the last few sentences, he was approved without even being tested.
Their efficiency was outstanding, and so was the result.