Check this funny video of an advertising campain from a spanish company of natural gas called "Gas Natural Fenosa". The guy says something like this: Have you heard about wilhelm scream? It appears in many films. I invented it, but it's time to retire. That's because I choose the "Duchas sin Gritos" (Showers without screams) plan from "Gas Natural Fenosa" with ten months of … [Read more...]
Game Audio at Gamefest 2010: Presentations and Recordings
Some of the presentations and audio recordings of the Gamefest 2010 Audio panels are available now for download. High fidelity meets deep interactivity in today’s top game audio implementations. Now take it to the next level, and learn about the wide array of technologies currently available to create, develop, manipulate, and render dynamic and immersive sound for your titles … [Read more...]
Charles Maynes Special: Worldizing
Some years ago, MPEG published a very interesting article of Charles Maynes talking about his approach on the use of the worldizing technique: For some of us in sound and music circles, “worldizing” has long held a special sense of the exotic. Worldizing is the act of playing back a recording in a real-world environment, allowing the sound to react to that environment, and then … [Read more...]
Designing Sound has its Own Virtual Birthday Cake!
Andrew Spitz, who you may know as the admin and founder of Social Sound Design, and blogger at {sound+design} has cooked a virtual birthday cake for our first anniversary. One of my favorite blogs on sound design has just turned one! Happy birthday Designing Sound. Thank you Miguel Isaza and Jake Riehle for all your hard work. I hope there will be many more to come! As a … [Read more...]
Short Film on Gun Recording, Plus Diego Stocco's New Custom Instrument
I want to share two short videos I found this weekend, ideal for this nice monday morning. The first one (at the top) is a short film form Radium Audio Ltd, featuring a cool behind the scenes of a gun recording session they had recently. Background: We wanted to capture a behind the scenes to demonstrate our approach at Radium Audio. This film is was shot by us, music - sound … [Read more...]
The Sound of "Toy Story 3"
I went to the theater yesterday to see "Toy Story 3", and all can I say is that you will have a lot of fun. What a fantastic adventure. The sound was great. If you want to know about it, let's check the new profile of SoundWorks Collection: Join Skywalker Sound’s Re-Recording Mixer and Sound Designer Tom Myers, Sound Re-Recording Mixer Michael Semanick, Director Lee Unkrich, … [Read more...]
Charles Maynes Special: Sound for Sci-Fi/Superhero Films [Part 2] – “S. Darko” and “Mystery Men”
The tales of inept wannabe super heroes and a mysterious girl named Samantha Darko. Wow what a different set of films- but they landed in the brief for this little travelogue, so sit back and enjoy a scenic and hopefully entertaining trip. Mystery Men, a big screen rendition of the Dark Horse Comic book of the same name- Delightfully insane with a comic all-star cast … [Read more...]