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How do you imagine the IDW casts voices when reading?

Also what type of soundtrack would you set for any scene/story in the IDWverse?

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I always imagine the characters with their voices from the movies. The ones who haven't shown up in the movies, I just figure something out by the way they look.

Ginrai Minor wrote:How do you imagine the IDW casts voices when reading?

Total mixed bag. I hear G1 voices for many characters (Optimus, Magnus, Shockwave), TF: Prime voices for others (Ratchet, Megatron, Starscream), and a total mixed bag on other things. Hard to imagine the Gregg Berger style Grimlock when Grimlock speaks in full sentences, so stuff like that is tough to place.

Ginrai Minor wrote: Also what type of soundtrack would you set for any scene/story in the IDWverse?

This varies so much from issue to issue for me, and especially series to series. Stuff like Autocracy/Primacy, when done well, gets some G1 cartoon music going in my head. When done kind of blandly, the background music seems like it'd be more or less like something out of War For Cybertron (or any other generic action game out these days).

Cybertronian scenes evoke a Vince DiCola or sometimes synthpop feel, and sometimes spacecraft scenes hit that vibe as well. A good bit of Windblade hit that ambient/downtempo chill kind of groove.

MTMTE and most of the recent RID books hit the Hiroyuki Suwano style to me. That's the guy that did the OSTs for Kill La Kill, Attack on Titan, and Gundam Unicorn (among a ton of others, but those are the most notable imo). A mix of orchestral, rock, electronic, and other styles (occasional j-pop!) all mushed together into a pretty epic package. If that stuff were ever animated and this dude didn't get the OST duty I'd, well, be sad about it. Or, Suwano and DiCola together could be an audiophile's orgasm to me.

Most of the Furman stuff would probably be presented in front of The Backstreet Boys

ScottyP wrote:

Ginrai Minor wrote:How do you imagine the IDW casts voices when reading?

Total mixed bag. I hear G1 voices for many characters (Optimus, Magnus, Shockwave), TF: Prime voices for others (Ratchet, Megatron, Starscream), and a total mixed bag on other things. Hard to imagine the Gregg Berger style Grimlock when Grimlock speaks in full sentences, so stuff like that is tough to place.

Ginrai Minor wrote: Also what type of soundtrack would you set for any scene/story in the IDWverse?

This varies so much from issue to issue for me, and especially series to series. Stuff like Autocracy/Primacy, when done well, gets some G1 cartoon music going in my head. When done kind of blandly, the background music seems like it'd be more or less like something out of War For Cybertron (or any other generic action game out these days).

Cybertronian scenes evoke a Vince DiCola or sometimes synthpop feel, and sometimes spacecraft scenes hit that vibe as well. A good bit of Windblade hit that ambient/downtempo chill kind of groove.

MTMTE and most of the recent RID books hit the Hiroyuki Suwano style to me. That's the guy that did the OSTs for Kill La Kill, Attack on Titan, and Gundam Unicorn (among a ton of others, but those are the most notable imo). A mix of orchestral, rock, electronic, and other styles (occasional j-pop!) all mushed together into a pretty epic package. If that stuff were ever animated and this dude didn't get the OST duty I'd, well, be sad about it. Or, Suwano and DiCola together could be an audiophile's orgasm to me.

Most of the Furman stuff would probably be presented in front of The Backstreet Boys

Awesome response!!

Loved your thoughts on the music. I find myself having j-pop, jazz, and easy listening piano going in my head with many scenes in swerve's bar.

I always hear young orion/prime as Peter Cullens performance in the the first three episodes of the 84 series(oh that gentle prime voice)

Hight of the war I hear prime as the 86 movie performance.

Current events I hear old bay movies prime.

Soundtrack wise, try this playlist for MTMTE, put together according to the suggestions that Roberts makes for each issue: http://boards.idwpublishing.com/3/viewt ... =2&t=12527

As for the sound, this was a pretty cool experiment by fellow reader Chris McFeely, using some Animated and some older references for the two characters:

Well, for voice actors I picture a mixture of G1 voices and new talent, I really hope someday that I'll be able to fulfill my dream of making an audio track for the entirety of the IDW-verse. Besides, I want to have Whirl voiced.

Va'al wrote:Soundtrack wise, try this playlist for MTMTE, put together according to the suggestions that Roberts makes for each issue: http://boards.idwpublishing.com/3/viewt ... =2&t=12527

As for the sound, this was a pretty cool experiment by fellow reader Chris McFeely, using some Animated and some older references for the two characters:

That's what my fantasy is about. Someday I'll get a full comic done like this.

As for a soundtrack, I'm imagining something akin to the Movies, which, I'll admit, have a pretty decent soundtrack. But for MTMTE, I'm going for something like Guardians of The Galaxy...lots of catchy 80s songs!

I picture their G1 toon voices, except Prime who seems to have taken on the older softer bay version, and Megatron who's taken on his Animated voice. I just can't get welker's voice going for how articulate the guy has become.

In case where the 86 movie has different voices to the series, I always use the movie version. So Kup is his grufer voice, and Galvatron is always Nimoy's voice.


Starscream started off being his G1 toon, but since he changed body, it's become his Armada toon voice.

https://soundcloud.com/crashboombanger/gol

I think this guy chose some good voices.

I have:

G1 cast all the same except for Ratchet (animated ratchet) and Prowl (kevin conroy's Batman)
Tailgate - Michael J fox
Long Haul - Brad Garrett
Galvatron - Hugo Weaving