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Veteran voice actor Toby Longworth delves into the art of voicing the iconic Space Marines from Warhammer 40,000. He shares his techniques for creating distinct voices for characters like Garro and explains the challenge of portraying genetically engineered super-soldiers.
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00:00I think Garrow was one of my earliest ones.
00:02Garrow I ended up doing slightly higher.
00:05I do have a couple of fairly good tips, key tips.
00:09I will obviously go off on a tangent when I try and work out what colours I've got here.
00:13The big problem with Space Marines, because of course there's a lot of cloning that goes on in the Space
00:18Marine world, I'm sure you know,
00:20is getting them to actually sound anything different to each other.
00:24And one thing I found out very early on when I started off my relationship with Games Workshop was with
00:31audiobooks.
00:32And in audiobooks you do not take into account the fact that it's a game at all.
00:36So it's always a bit of a surprise when I find out that actually there's a game involved.
00:41These things happen. This has all happened. How dare you.
00:44And this is the thing with the voices for Space Marines.
00:47They're all pretty tough and flinty.
00:50So you've got to start with a tough, flinty one.
00:53I think Garrow was one of my earliest ones.
00:55Garrow I ended up doing slightly higher.
00:58Because as you go through the book, you'll find somebody who goes, you know,
01:02that is all very well, but you are only a first generation.
01:06I am a third generation. I am bigger than you.
01:08I am enormous and will be a dreadnought one day.
01:11So you start getting more and more aggressively huge.
01:15Obviously, if you've got more than ten Space Marines in a book, you're going to be...
01:19Only dogs can hear you by the end of the...
01:22That would be too high, wouldn't it?
01:23That would be...
01:24Only ground squirrels can hear you.
01:26And this will begin with the other people who are in a nursing home.
01:26I have a freedom to get more of the details.
01:26I am a man.

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