Randy Thom spoke yesterday in the first keynote at the Siggraph Conference. Let's read some notes and ideas delivered by Thom: "creative use of sound is key to making a long-remembered film." Thom, who won sound editing Oscars for "The Incredibles" and "The Right Stuff," said he is often asked about the difference between designing sound for animation and live action. "One … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2009
August's Featured: Dane A. Davis
For August I decided to make an special of Dane A. Davis, an awesome Sound Designer, the maker of that Matrix sound, certainly a man with with a hudge of talent and creativity. Biography: (vía MPSE) Dane was born quietly in La Mesa, California, in the late fifties. From then on he was always noisy. In early adolescence Dane borrowed reel-to-reel tape … [Read more...]
New FMOD Update available now
Firelight Technologies has released new updates of the FMOD Ex API and FMOD Designer bringing new features and updates, including the new DSP effects, more memory optimizations, a new Profiler option and performance improvements to the Geometry API. FMOD 4.26 Programmer API Updates: Added Delay and TREMOLO DSP effects. Improved performance of FMOD Delay DSP, iPhone, Win32 … [Read more...]