Having a background in radio and television, Lani Minella began concentrating on the interactive industry in 1992 when doing hundreds of voices and scriptwriting for GTE which was developing for the Discovery channel, Philips, Sony and an entire department for children’s titles. She started cold calling clients whose business cards she got at various trade shows, from CES to E3 and the Computer Game Developer’s Conference. She worked as a Game Designer and Creative Director at a start up company, and Paramount highly favored the Deep Space Nine script she wrote while pitching her own game, Fall Of Time. Ironically her company pitched the game to GTE which later stole the idea and butchered the game’s original intent by coming out with Time Lapse.

With over 300 titles done to date and hundreds of voices yet to be discovered, she has expanded her business, Pro-Motions Production Company aka Audiogodz, to be a full service provider. She casts other talent. directs, writes, acts, provides editing, sound-effects, foleying, music, and she still designs games. Her ultimate goal is the cartoon industry, but she has no qualms playing anything from a Klingon to doing sound-alikes for games. (Sigourney Weaver-Alien Resurrection,Linda Fiorentino-Men In Black, Casper, all the dinosaurs in Land Before Time, Evy and Anack Su Namun in the Mummy, Betty Boop in Betty Boop Hollywood and Olive Oyl in Popeye EVO-slot machines, the males she cast for Die Hard Trilogy, etc)

She has worked on top-sellers like Duke Nukem (3D, Plutonium, Time To Kill, Forever), Starcraft, Diablo 1,2 and add-on pack, Unreal, Everquest and the add on Scars of Velius, Clive Barker’s Undying. The list also includes several flight sims, military combat games, RPG games, tons of shooters, educational games, instructional, business and training projects, sports games, toys, telephone systems, industrials, videos, Film, Radio & TV (She stars in Bloopy’s Buddies a national kids’ show with Jonathan Winters.)

Her good reputation is known by companies worldwide and there is always a good time to be had by all. References are available from everyone from Disney, Fox, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Sony, EA, GT Interactive and sub-developers, Eidos and it’s developers, Hasbro & developers, Interplay, Acclaim and its developers, Havas/Vivendi, and the list goes on.

Thoughts on Production:
Lani’s philosophy is to get the job done right the first time, for the best price with the most original creativity possible. (If you like jokes, she is the Queen of that realm too.) “I want each project to be the best one yet,” she says. “It helps to have worn so many hats and filled so many shoes. If your mind has a wondrous wardrobe of ideas, there’s no limit to the roles you can play.” “I work fast, save post-editing time & trouble and bring an endless variety of possible voices to any project. That’s what separates the exceptional voice actors from the announcers and in-house staff that still tend to require lengthy repairs or re-dos. When the talent is good, everyone enjoys the experience and it shows in the final product,” Lani adds. No job is too big or too small for Audiogodz, from doing demos to entire game production, this company’s resources and good reputation are growing rapidly.

If you’d like more information on Ms. Minella or Pro-Motions Production Company, feel free to contact her at 800-357-7040 or e-mail at lani@audiogodz.com
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