Jack Menhorn: Tell us about yourself. What led you into doing sound design for games? Atsushi Suganuma: I am Atsushi Suganuma, I am an audio director at Square-Enix Japan. I worked on both “FINAL FANTASY XV” game development as well as the CG animation feature film “KINGS GLAIVE FINAL FANTASY XV”. On the game side, I was managing our audio team as Audio Lead … [Read more...]
Lead Audio Programmer Aaron McLeran On Unreal Engine Audio: Features and Architecture
Epic Games recently did a live stream with Lead Audio Programmer Aaron McLeran explaining in great detail the audio features and architecture of the Unreal Engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2322&v=eX1T9Y-8HP8 … [Read more...]
Youtube: Indepth Sound Design By Mike James Gallagher
There's a new Youtube Channel titled "Indepth Sound Design" by Mike James Gallagher where Mike does Sound Design deconstruction of iconic Motion Picture sounds such as The Bat Aircraft or Explosions in Inception. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oywVG_C3pU New videos are scheduled to be released once a week. You can watch them here. … [Read more...]
Instamic Pro — First Impressions
This time around I decided to do something different: instead of an article, I’ve created a video to better demonstrate a few of my experiences with the Instamic Pro so far. While there will be a full review of it, I thought it would be noteworthy to talk to you about some observations. … [Read more...]
Animation World Network: Paula Fairfield On Creativity And ‘Game of Thrones’ Creature Sound Design
Animation World Network has published two videos with Emmy Award winning Sound Designer Paula Fairfield in which she talks about Creativity in Sound Design and her approach to the Creature Sound Design in Game of Thrones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxx-XKgEg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzbJnd5mryU&feature=youtu.be via A Sound Effect … [Read more...]
PostPerspective: On Pacific Rim Uprising‘s Big Sound
PostPerspective has recently published a very in depth article about the Sound of Pacific Rim Uprising. You can read the full article here. … [Read more...]
Free sounds from Justin Macleod
Justin Macleod was one of the many winners in a community give away we ran in December of 2016. He sent me this message for the community a few months ago, but it was temporarily lost when we were experiencing issues with the site that ultimately led to us switching servers. Justin wanted to give back to the broader community. So, here's the message and some free sounds for all … [Read more...]