Good Friend Ben

Hey there, I'm Ben and I'm an amatuer writer and voice-actor. I'll post projects--and extracts from projects--here.

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Did a digital painting of a young Leonardo DiCaprio!

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Looking at old drawings makes me wanna get back into that chill process of taking my time on a piece.

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Escaflowne - Van and Folken reunite (FANDUB)

A new video. This one didn't take long at all, and I was glad to get my buddy Chris (LoststeamVAA) to do another scene with me, this time with a performance ...

Hey guys, I did a fandub of Escaflowne a few weeks back, and I thought I’d share it. I play Van (the young guy with the black hair). Thanks to LoststeamVAA for playing Folken for me. 

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Lazy Afternoons ~ Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX Remastered OST

[Read description before commenting] This was recorded from the Kingdom Hearts Music Selection, reuploaded in better quality, which comes with the following ...

The theme simulates a very particular kind experience, known to almost everyone who’s been to school, and to those who have felt the finite joy of the holidays. It communicates the feeling one experiences as the last days of summer vacation are coming to a close, and with it the end of freedom and playtime. It carries with it, a kind of heartache; a kind of soft sadness; a feeling that one tries to suppress as the end approaches near, but to no avail. It conveys the felt sense of bonds between friends; encouraging you to appreciate what little time you have left with them before the industrial engine of school forces you back into it’s suffocating regime. It also aptly conveys the feeling of a Sunday afternoon—the feeling of melancholy that that day brings, along with a dull tint of anxiety and dread, that never quite makes it self explicit enough to be articulated; It just remains as a background process, before resolving itself towards the end of the night, as you ease into the prospect of returning, facing the idea with an admirable bravery and acceptance.

[goodfriendben]

I'd say Macalania Forest is perhaps the most enchanting location in Spira (FFX). Wedged between three regions (The Thunder Plains, Bevelle and The Calm Lands) it serves as a sort of junction point for travellers. Cloaked in a gorgeous shade of midnight blue, with tall and winding trees that intertwine with each other, piercing crystal spires and starry pathways that lead up high; alien flora, with splashes of luminescence that highlight the forest. It's a place that's just teeming with cosmic beauty. I could get lost in this celestial maze for hours. The atmosphere is a sort of...calm sorrow. It looks, sounds and feels quite melancholic and wistful, yet pristine. There’s an eerie stillness about the place. The forest, casting off the outside light in favour of sleep. It feels...suspended in time. The eponymous track is ethereal and dreamlike. Heightening the ghostly allure of the place. All these qualities are amplified when the experience is funneled through memory and reflection. For it is in memory that I can experience a thing in its most ideal and concentrate form. To phase out the dull parts and muse on the best.  And, it must be said, the physical experience of Macalania Forest has its drawbacks.  One of them being the fixed camera, which prevents one from taking a good look around and appreciating the beauty of the place more fully. Also, the route that is explorable is rather narrow and closed off, as usual.  It feels like there is much that is hidden from the player, so much yet to be explored.  But perhaps this restriction makes the experience all the more tantalizing. The random encounters however, being another drawback,  disrupt the sombre mood, with the grating battle theme crashing in, breaking the stillness.

[h4te]

[eternalash]

Either way he has a woody 

[mr-gromain]

that was my scarecrow song :)