The tense audition was over, and that night, Tan Yiming finally got the best sleep he had ever had.
Regardless of the final result, he has given his all, trying to pour the most perfect performance into the role. As for whether the examiners would like his performance or not, that is not something he can control.
Putting down the burden, he relaxed.
Early the next morning, he had breakfast and joined the other candidates.
Surprisingly, except for him, everyone else had thick dark circles under their eyes and yawned. I don't know if it's because the jet lag hasn't reversed, or because I was too worried and couldn't sleep last night.
Seeing Tan Yiming was refreshed, Xiao Qing was inevitably a little sour.
Xiao Qing: "It seems that you had a good rest yesterday?"
Tan Yiming: "It's pretty good, anyway, the audition is over."
Xiao Qing saw this young man with a confident look on his chest, and when he thought about his mouth knotted while reading English lines in the audition room yesterday, he really had to sigh that he was terrifying.
Xiao Qing: "How did you answer the last question? Do you think the astronaut will regret it?"
Tan Yiming played Tai Chi: "I don't regret it, there should be no correct answer." He replied, "But I was lucky. I just talked about this topic with my friends before entering the stadium yesterday. He gave me a lot of inspiration. I didn't expect it to be so coincidental. I was asked by the examiner."
Tan Yiming compared Xiang Guai to a lucky star, but when Xiao Qing heard it, he had another interpretation.
I just heard Xiao Qing say enviously, "Your girlfriend is quite prosperous."
Tan Yiming: "...he's a man."
Xiao Qing: "Oh, your boyfriend is quite prosperous."
Tan Yiming: "...???"
Without waiting for Tan Yiming to continue to explain, the staff greeted everyone to gather and led them to the conference room.
Different from the anticipation and excitement in the team on the first day, today's team is a bit more dull.
Nearly seventy candidates from six countries are sitting in a conference room, waiting for the final result.
Surrounded by different languages, English, Japanese, Russian... In a few minutes, six lucky winners will be born here, and they will be the heroes behind the mysterious masterpiece of the rainstorm company.
The torrential rain didn't keep them waiting too long.
Soon, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and a group of five people filed in.
In addition to the game's main strategy and main beauty that he had seen before, at the end of the team was a young man with red curly hair.
A buzzing discussion sounded in the crowd, and many people recognized him - he was the "recording assistant" who was in the recording studio yesterday!
Now, he has another badge on his chest, which clearly reads his identity: Jonah Brown, chief audio designer of the "Q" project team.
The rainstorm company is full of ritual. Jonah is holding a scroll-like thing in his hand. Everyone recognizes it at a glance. This is the scroll in the hand of the NPC who released the task in the game. The most striking thing is that Jonah is wearing a strange helmet with a huge yellow question mark on it. If Tan Yiming has a mouse in his hand, he really wants to click on him.
"Hello everyone, we met yesterday." The question mark above Jonah's head shook as he spoke, "Let me introduce myself again, I'm the audio director of the "Q" project team, Jonah Brown. Voice actors, now I have the final list in my hand."
Jonah: "This vote is the result of a blind vote by the audio department, plot planning, and several main creators. Whether it's the company's selection or the employee's recommendation, all the audition demos are out of order and only replaced by numbers. Everyone. You can rest assured that we will do our best to ensure fairness in this vote.”
"Then now," Jonah raised his hand and tapped the question mark above his head. The next second, the question mark was straightened, and at the same time, a jingling upgrade sound was emitted, "The task is settled and the final score of the players is announced."
Everyone: "… "
Obviously it was an extremely serious atmosphere, but all the voice actors present were amused by his funny behavior. It was like a live RPG, and they were a group of players who had just returned from a dungeon.
Tan Yiming was born in an investment bank. The investment bank has always had a strict hierarchy and a dull atmosphere. Working in an investment bank, everyone is like being thrown into a transparent fish tank, and the oxygen-deficient environment makes everyone breathe hard.
He has long heard that the environment of Internet companies is open, and the game industry carries the most whimsy. The first time he experienced it, he felt more and more that it was the most correct choice for him to "flee" from the investment bank.
Jonah didn't waste any more time. He cleared his throat and pronounced the first name.
"Japanese scientist - Takako Ono."
The girl with pink hair let out an excited scream, wept with joy, and hugged the little sister beside her.
"Spanish mechanic - Fernando Garcia."
The wheat-colored youth jumped up from his seat, clenched his hands into fists, and waved them towards the sky. Coincidentally, he was the one who talked about Yiming's "show" Chinese at the airport.
Next, American characters, Russian characters, French characters…
... Finally, it was finally the sixth role: Wang Qiang, a Chinese astronaut who was resolute and decisive, who traveled through a hundred years alone.
"Chinese astronauts—"
At this moment, Tan Yiming felt that the flow of time seemed to slow down. That second passed as long as an hour. The world was silent, only monotonous black and white remained. In this silent world, only the yellow exclamation mark above Jonah's head flashed and flashed, and it was still emitting light.
Tan Yiming stared at him, watching him open his mouth and smile.
As if each syllable stretched indefinitely, stretched—continued to stretch—
"—Yiming—Tan!!"
Non-standard Chinese rushed out of the "NPC" mouth.
They rushed out together, as well as the surrounding sounds, temperature, emotions, colors...
The world of black and white was broken in an instant, and all the senses that were blocked came back.
Talk about it.
Talk about it.
Talk about it.
— Jonah read his name.
It's him. It's a chat.
It was he who broke through the siege of ten powerful opponents and won the final glory.
"It's me." Tan Yiming murmured, "It's me."
He repeated: "It's really me."
Countless sounds crashed into his eardrums, but he didn't respond, unable to process the cheers with his brain.
Who is applauding
Who is speaking to him
Who is hugging him
He couldn't hear anything, and he didn't care. From the moment he made up his mind to throw away the bread, he put all his hopes on his dreams.
And now, his dream is not just a dream on paper, it has become a piece of bread that is soft and sweet enough to fill his stomach.
Before long, his voice will reach every corner of the world with the release of the game. He will inject soul into "Wang Qiang" with his voice, and those fans who love games will be deeply inspired by his voice.
Today, in the conference room of the Rainstorm Company, he took the first step in his career. A small but firm step.
In a trance, it seemed like a huge wave swept over Tan Yiming.
The giant wave slammed into his world, disrupting all the well-organized life plans.
But Tan Yiming is not afraid, he has spent his whole life waiting for this huge wave to strike, and now it is coming. So he opened his arms and ran towards it.
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That night, the rainstorm company held a very grand after party.
There are free-flowing wines, small cakes made into game logos, and a crowd of people who talk and laugh.
The party was held on the company's open-air lawn. The weather in April was just right, the breeze was blowing at night, and the fragrance of the wine and the perfume on the girls swayed together.
Throughout the night, many people came to Tan Yiming to take photos. Fernando from Spain is enthusiastic. He curled his tongue, shouted "amigo", and wrapped his arms around Tan Yiming's neck. I don't know how many weird selfies he posted on Instagram.
Although the rainstorm company invited all the voice actors to participate in the party, half of them left early because of "schedule problems".
Of course, as everyone knows, the itinerary question is just an excuse.
"As for it? Everyone's self-esteem is so high. After the Oscars, the after party did not see those stars who failed to participate." Xiao Qing spit out a poisonous mouth.
He was holding two cups of draft beer in his hand. This cup was a special wooden cup for the dwarves in a certain game of the Rainstorm Company. It was made into a peripheral, and the style was quite novel. Xiao Qing handed one of the cups to Tan Yiming, and pushed his shoulder against him: "Drink it, it's not poisoned."
Tan Yiming took it, took a sip, and put it aside. He doesn't like alcohol, it's okay to have a drink, just let it go.
Tan Yiming said, "I thought you would leave early too."
"Why are you leaving?" Xiao Qing leaned against the bar and was very relaxed. He took out a stack of business cards from his pocket and said smugly, "How can a person's face be important?"
He has a natural philistine and shrewdness about him. Even though he has targeted Tan Yiming, Tan Yiming doesn't have too much disgust towards him... After all, Mingqian is always better than Dark Arrow.
The two toast.
Xiao Qingdun almost drank the wine in the glass in one breath, the clear golden yellow liquid wheat fragrance was pleasant, he wiped his mouth boldly, and asked, "Are you really a newcomer?"
Up to now, he still does not believe that he has been defeated by a fledgling unknown.
"It's half." Tan Yiming said, "Because I like dubbing, I have played some online radio dramas. I have only started to accept commercial dubbing in the last six months, but the ceiling in Hollywood is very low. I can only play some small Asian roles, or Cartoons, commercials, etc., there are not many job opportunities."
Xiao Qing: "It looks like you are going back to China to develop?"
"It's still under consideration." Tan Yiming thought for a while, "Do you have any suggestions? If I want to do this, is it better to return to China than to stay in the United States?"
Xiao Qing drank the last drop of wine: "Do you want to hear the truth or the lie?"
"Of course it's true."
"My advice is don't do it."
Tan Yiming: "…"
Xiao Qing: "Really, you said that you are young, handsome, and you are in the business of making money. Why don't you want to be a voice actor?"
As if he had finally found someone to listen to, Xiao Qing complained in one go: "It's hard and tiring to do this. Now the crew is getting more and more weak, especially the costume dramas. Hengdian can't wait for three crews to be there at the same time in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Shooting, the scene is too noisy, they simply don’t accept the sound of the same period, it all depends on the post-production match. But there must be some match for the match, right?”
Speaking of this, he became very angry, "As far as those little fresh meat's facial paralysis acting skills are concerned, you can count one, two, three or four wrong. The producer sent the film over and said, 'Help you dubbing teachers', the problem is that I still How can I help? If I can turn a puppet into an actor just by relying on my voice, why don't I act by myself??"
Tan Yiming didn't expect Xiao Qing to be so outspoken, and almost spit out a sip of wine.
Tan Yiming didn't know what to say, so he could only comfort him: "No way, the acting skills of idol stars are now 'ripened' by the market. Looking at the light, in fact, it can only be reprocessed in the later stage. But now the two-dimensional industry is very It's mature, there are so many domestic animations, radio dramas, and games, it's not bad to pick up some of these."
"That's right, but there is still a big gap between the domestic two-dimensional industry and Japan's. Many elementary school chickens haven't learned to distinguish our voices from our roles." Speaking of this, Xiao Qing shook his head. "I played a harem otome game last year, which was very popular. My wife has charged several 648s, and I heard that the monthly flow is several hundred million... But the game has been popular for less than a month, and there are real-life photos of the dubbing of several male protagonists. It's flying all over the sky, and it's still a snapshot of the comic book signing - do you think it looks good?? A bunch of fans said that my appearance ruined the male god in their minds and made me 'fat house and thick', I was at that time I weighed 85kg, and I started to lose weight in anger."
Tan Yiming patted his shoulder affectionately: "Then what's your current weight...?"
Xiao Qing: "86 kilograms."
Tan Yiming: "…"
Xiao Qing looked Tan Yiming up and down, and said enviously: "Actually, your external image is quite good, and as soon as you entered the circle, you were matched with the masterpiece of the rainstorm, and it was gilded in the United States. Fans love it. It's designed by people, if you really want to go back to China for development, you can find a team to pack it."
"I don't like those messy things." Tan Yiming immediately shook his head and declined: "Dubbing is dubbing, it is more important to have a good voice and show the character of the character. As for the appearance, education and personality of the dubbing actor, they are the least worth mentioning. s things."
Xiao Qing did not expect the young man in front of him to say such a thing. Not only did he not get carried away by his temporary achievements, he even saw it clearly and thoroughly.
This kind of talk reminds Xiao Qing of who he used to be - when he first entered the industry, he also had a simple and pure love for the dubbing business.
At that time, he had not been destroyed by Party A, and he had not wasted most of his energy in the struggle outside the recording studio.
I don't know how long Tan Yiming's purity can be maintained
As a current opponent, a senior, a future colleague, and a possible friend, Xiao Qing sincerely hopes that Tan Yiming's "innocence" can be maintained for a longer time.
After all, the maturity of young people and the innocence of adults are the most treasures worthy of careful collection.
Thinking of this, Xiao Qing put his arms around Tan Yiming's shoulders and said cheerfully, "Xiao Tan, then I'll be waiting for you in China! Don't forget, you have to make up for my plastic English! "
Tan Yiming raised his eyebrows: "It looks like the tuition fee of $9,999 is ready?"
Xiao Qing: "…"