The British Film Academy of Film and Television has just announced the nominees for 2018's BAFTA Awards. Among the nominees in the category "Sound" are: BABY DRIVER Tim Cavagin, Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater BLADE RUNNER 2049 Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Mark Mangini, Mac Ruth, Theo Green DUNKIRK Richard King, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo, Mark Weingarten THE … [Read more...]
Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast: UI Sound Design
A recent issue of the 20k podcast revolves around UI sound design and how these sounds interact with us in our everyday life. Guests are Will Littlejohn, Facebook’s Director of Sound Design and Conor O’Sullivan, Sound Design Lead at Google. You can listen to the episode here. [Image Source] … [Read more...]
Boom Box Post: The Sound Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shellraiser
Boom Box Post just posted a short video that takes us behind the scenes of the sound design process creating the post apocalyptic vehicle sounds (specifically the Shellraiser) of Nickelodeon’s CG Animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGGyXydtor0 … [Read more...]
Cakewalk Ceases New Product Development
Cakewalk just issued a statement that the company will cease new product development and reduce overall operations. Cakewalk is assuring that their software products and servers will continue to operate, monthly updates for SONAR however will cease. You can read the full story here. … [Read more...]
Twenty Thousand Hertz Podcast: Spooky Sounds
Fitting our monthly theme "Fear", a recent episode of the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast explores how Hollywood crafts the sounds of horror and why these sounds trigger fear. Guests include Formosa Group Senior Sound Editor/Sound Designer Trevor Gates and Dan Blumstein, professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. You can listen to the episode here. [image … [Read more...]
Gamasutra Audio Design Deep Dive: Martin Stig Andersen On Scoring Wolfenstein II Using Baschet Sonic Sculptures
Martin Stig Andersen (Limbo, INSIDE) has written an extensive piece about his recent work on Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in which he describes his use of Baschet Instruments, unique sound sculptures created by two French Brothers named François and Bernard Baschet. You can read the full article here. … [Read more...]
Riot Games: Creative Contest 2017 This Year With Category Sound Design
Riot Games has recently announced this years creative contest including for the 1st time a Sound Design category. The rules will be announced at the beginning of the contest. It starts November 6th and lasts until January 31 2018. You can read the official announcement here. [image credit: Riot Games] … [Read more...]