BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Benedict's Unedited Smaug Voice

**Posted by Le Bear Polar** February 12, 2014 8:05 am

Mp3 download of Ben's voice available here.

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** February 12, 2014 8:31 am

OMG Thank you!!

Excuse my while I go change my text alert from "Don't talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the whole street" to this.

I will die next time someone texts me!

**Posted by Le Bear Polar** February 12, 2014 1:10 pm

Excuse me while I listen to that on loop...

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** February 13, 2014 8:11 am

I just had the best laugh ever! Some site on Facebook just put up this post "When you eat food that's too hot and start breathing like a retarded dragon"

Benedict's dragon surely is not retarded... but I just had the funniest images inside my little head here

**Posted by SpiralStaircase** February 14, 2014 5:23 pm

Now I know this is not related to Ben's Smaug voice, but it does focus on his voice. I just stumbled upon it over at YouTube. Apologies if it has been posted before -

**Posted by sherlocked4ever** February 14, 2014 6:00 pm

A few posts ago I said I would use this as a text alert - well, I did. My mother and stepfather were shocked and I laughed so hard I nearly fell of the sofa ^^ The other day at work, my colleague who's a Sherlock fan, too, laughed and said it was awesome :D

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** February 15, 2014 6:32 pm

SpiralStaircase wrote:
Now I know this is not related to Ben's Smaug voice, but it does focus on his voice. I just stumbled upon it over at YouTube. Apologies if it has been posted before -

*Gasps for air*

I can't even... I can't breathe now! Where is that from?

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** February 17, 2014 7:57 am

I heard a rumour they never actually used his motion capture; is that true?

**Posted by Le Bear Polar** February 17, 2014 11:46 am

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:
SpiralStaircase wrote:
Now I know this is not related to Ben's Smaug voice, but it does focus on his voice. I just stumbled upon it over at YouTube. Apologies if it has been posted before -

*Gasps for air*

I can't even... I can't breathe now! Where is that from?

This is from The Pillow Book! He plays this poet and in those segments you heard he's talking/wooing/charming the royal courtesan. It's on mp3skull.com

**Posted by tonnaree** February 17, 2014 3:44 pm

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:
I heard a rumour they never actually used his motion capture; is that true?

So NOT true. If you've seen the clips of him doing the motion capture and watch the moive you can honestly see where they mesh.

**Posted by Le Bear Polar** February 17, 2014 4:46 pm

I read that they did not use his actual motion for the wyrm, but as a reference point as they crafted the beast's movements, muscle tone, etc. But then again it might just be some article.

**Posted by BlueBox** February 18, 2014 8:59 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SfQpGORLr8

More of Smaugs voice and Benedicts motion capture.

**Posted by Russell** February 18, 2014 10:17 pm

Thud.

**Posted by tonnaree** February 18, 2014 10:27 pm

BlueBox wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SfQpGORLr8

More of Smaugs voice and Benedicts motion capture.

Oh my stars and garters. *swoon* *thud*

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** February 19, 2014 12:22 am

"Come now don't be shy"... OMFG

and is it bad that my response to "How do you choose to die" was: By fangirling over you...

XD, no, but seriously I'm always so impressed about how much he put into this!

**Posted by MahnSherlolly03** February 19, 2014 12:33 am

Am I the only one who thinks the motion capture thing looks really weird? xD

But I do love the voice. And the fact that he's psychoanalysing a dragon.

**Posted by Le Bear Polar** February 19, 2014 3:27 am

Thank you for the video! Ohhh Ben. That's fantastic work right there.

**Posted by Zatoichi** February 19, 2014 8:28 am

MahnSherlolly03 wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks the motion capture thing looks really weird? xD

I don´t see the funny helmet-thingy, I just see the man.. *Thud*

**Posted by Tinks** February 19, 2014 10:09 am

It does look a bit weird but it's great that he's having so much fun with it
I wonder if he prefers to voice projects rather than act in them?

**Posted by zeratul** April 14, 2014 7:47 am

Watched the movie on friday . I preordered it, as I do not visit cinemas and don't like 3D movies...

Of course I watched it in English (thank god my husband also knows English good enough), but I was curious about the German Smaug voice...
O.M.G. it sounds like a cartoon or joke or sth...

English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ypvYcDQ7Q

German:
http://youtu.be/KlCfBdh9CgI?t=2m42s