"WALL•E" Sound for Film Profile with Ben Burtt from Michael Coleman on Vimeo. When nobody thought that Ben Burtt could return with his robots and laserguns, He strikes back (and even stronger) with WALL-E, an amazing animation film with the perfect dose of sound design that groups all the incredible knowledge, experience and talent of Ben Burtt in one place. Is well as I did … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2009
Sound Design with AudioCubes LoopShaper
Percussa has launched an application for AudioCubes called LoopShaper, the first app in a series of tools we are releasing to let you use AudioCubes without needing other software. It’s a great little sound design tool and hosts your favourite VST plugins. LoopShaper is a standalone application, hosts your VST instruments, and lets you interact with them in a hands on fashion … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Special: Star Wars – The Sounds [Part 2]
The second part of the special about the sounds of Star Wars, created by Ben Burtt. Let's take a look of the sounds of the characters in the film: Darth Vader, R2-D2, Chewbacca and the amazing Ewokese language. Chewbacca "You have bits and fragments of animal sounds which you have collected and put into lists: here is an affectionate sound and, here is a angry sound and, just … [Read more...]
Cinema Audio Society to honor Randy Thom
Re-recording mixer/sound designer Randy Thom will receive the Cinema Audio Society's Career Achievement Award at the 46th CAS Awards on Feb. 27 at the the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. He has shared in 14 Academy Award nominations, winning for best sound editing for "The Incredibles" and best sound for "The Right Stuff." He's been nominated four times by CAS and … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Special: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Video from Michael Coleman on Vimeo. One of the most recent works of Ben Burtt: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a 2008 adventure film, fourth in the Indiana Jones franchise, created by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg. “It started for me back in September [2007], when I went to L.A. and read the script in a secret room with a guard at the … [Read more...]
First International Kyma User Symposium in October
Kyma X is a powerful visual programming language for music and sound, originally created by Symbolic Sound in 1987 and still going strong today. The Kyma sound design environment is used by composers, researchers and sound designers for realtime sound generation and manipulation. The First International Kyma Symposium will be held from the 8-10 October 2009 at the Niu Espai … [Read more...]
Ben Burtt Special: Star Wars – The Sounds [Part 1]
Ben Burtt doesn't have a large list of films, but when he made the sound design of Star Wars, he created a new wave of sound making, introducing new techniques and certainly a new world of sounds. I'll divide the information about Star Wars Sound into five parts: The Sounds [Part 1] The Sounds [Part 2] Phantom Menace Attack of the Clones Let`s begin with the first part: … [Read more...]