@Tony Blakemore The town with the twisted spire and a lovely little theatre I did "See how they run" there many years ago. It was called the Pomegranate then but its something else now. What are the kind of projects you are creating?

Do it! Just don’t do the signalman by dickens as I’m about to give that a go myself on YouTube to see how it goes. 😄

Certainly AI audiobooks are dreadful in my opinion, (I'll never buy one!) and indeed there are some human narrators who seem to revel in their own text to speech delivery but there will always be the listeners and narrators who seem to want to outlaw "over performed" audiobooks, those who hate "funny voices" those who demand that we "just read the book!" those who love to taunt us with the fact that they had to "listen to the audiobook at double speed as the narrator was so slow!" The only true thing is that we can't please all of the people all of the time. So not only can we be the best narrator on audible we can also be the worst narrator on audible. Sometimes we can even achieve that weird dichotomy on the same audiobook! So it is our art and only if a criticism is consistent and universal should it ever be considered worth remedying. Even youtube AI voices are pretty shocking and this strange creepy valley thing going on nowadays of watching an AI presenter "read" a news report on youtube is quite unbearable. I do find AI useful to add visuals to my audiobook adverts but as you say Peter, there is no way on God's Earth that I would be employing actors, cameramen, location wranglers, transport, costume, props, make up, lighting technicians, grips etc to advertise a royalty share on ACX! So as you say AI is here, it is getting better but we have to take that tool and make it work for us! Bind it to our will! Conquer the dragon! ...(I'm going over the top again aren't I?)

I finished my latest audiobook yesterday and it is now approved paid for and about to embark upon its two week journey through the cogs and conveyor belts to audible.

I send the mp3 file to agents, but obviously as an animation reel it has got pictures to go with it! So here it is with pictures.

Here is my commercial showreel, what do you think of these? Some are real paid jobs, and some are just me creating some extra bits for the showreel, so for a little game can you tell which is which?