I'm still impressed of how fast the SFX independence scene has grown since the last year. This is just the first month of 2011 and there are already several great SFX libraries coming from different independent companies: Rabbit Ears Audio - Metal Machines Michael Raphael is ready for the release of another wonderful package of sound effects in Rabbit Ears Audio. This time he … [Read more...]
Game Audio Rewind: 2010
Damian Kastbauer, writer of the audio implementation greats series has published an insane list of game audio links that he collected during the past year. Lots of very informative articles! Now that 2010 is closed out, I just wanted to take a second and round up a batch of links to various projects that I was involved with and get them all lumped into a 'splosion of game … [Read more...]
Passion and Joy
"The most important advice I can give is to do this because you love it, and it brings you joy. If it’s part of you and you can never get enough, you are on the right track." -Frank Bry … [Read more...]
MIX Magazine – Sound for Picture: “True Grit”, “The King’s Speech” and “127 Hours”
MIX Magazine recently published several articles on sound for picture. Let's read: SFP: "True Grit" You never know what fascinating world directors Joel and Ethan Coen are going to visit. Their 2009 entry was the Oscar-nominated A Serious Manabout an introspective Jewish fellow in suburban Minneapolis in the late ’60s. The year before that brought us the wacky comic caper Burn … [Read more...]
January’s Featured Sound Designer: Tim Walston
New year, new month, and of course... new guest: Tim Walston, a fantastic person and very talented sound designer/editor who will share lots of cool things with us during this month. Bio Tim Walston was born in Northridge, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles, and spent most of his early years unknowingly growing up very close to major Hollywood film studios. His twin passions growing … [Read more...]
Audio Implementation Greats #10: Made for the Metronome
[Written by Damian Kastbauer for Designing Sound] If you talk to anyone in game audio today about successful tempo synced synergy between music and sound effects it wont take long for your discussion to end up at REZ and the work of Tetsuya Mizuguchi. The quintessential poster boy for synesthesia in video games and a stunning example of overt spontaneous interactive music … [Read more...]
Happy New Year!
I just want to thank you all for the incredible support to Designing Sound during 2010 and wish you the best for 2011. Thanks for visiting the sites! I hope the next year comes with very cool things on all the sites. There're some cool things coming in January and February, so stay tuned! Happy new year! … [Read more...]