François Dumas, now Audio Director at Ubisoft Annecy (Steep) - Credits: Ubi Blog Released in 2011 and 2013 (up until the recent Switch release), Rayman Origins and Legends were welcoming returns to the platforming genre for the armless hero, powered by Ubisoft's own 2D engine, the magical UbiArt Framework. Sound-wise, while the crazy and catchy tunes wrote by Christophe Héral … [Read more...]
Monthly Theme: Spectrum
Spectrum: "a broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap so as to form a continuous series or sequence" — Dictionary.com I can't imagine I'm alone in my initial draw to audio; its range of disciplines—recording, composing, acoustics, programming, performance, etc.—were all too fascinating to ignore, though I knew I could … [Read more...]
Heikki Kossi – Fearless In The Art Of Live Foley
Heikki Kossi is an illustrious Foley artist and supervisor from Kokkola, Finland. He and his colleagues at H5 Film Sound have provided bespoke Foley since the year 2000 for numerous feature films, shorts, video games, TV-dramas, documentaries and animations, amassing hundreds of credits (Heikki has 40 to his name in 2017 alone!). These include "Beguiled", "Bill Nye: Science … [Read more...]
Reaper: Editing Ambisonics via iZotope RX 6
As and editor, I'm constantly sending files over to RX for general or specific improvements. One of the biggest challenges I was facing until recently was that of figuring out a way to clean up an ambisonics recording. If you try to send a 3-channel or more audio file to it, RX will prompt you with the following warning: "RX does not support that many channels". So how can that … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought #97: Fearing When Thanks ≠ Giving
First let me say to those reading this in the United States, I hope you're enjoying the tail end of the Thanksgiving break. To those outside the U.S., I hope you'll forgive my weak attempt at a segue from a real-life holiday to a blog post title. Right, so with 'thanks' and 'giving' on my mind, I thought I'd share some views on what is probably my least favorite aspect of … [Read more...]
In the Field with Gordon Hempton
I’ve heard some really great things in the past about the Wild Eyes recording workshop. Our own Luca Fusi did a write up about his experience. We’ve also recently heard about other similar workshops in South Africa and Australia. While it’s great to see the availability of these, my schedule is so unpredictable that it’s hard to commit to attending one. I started this year … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought #96: Juicy
Feedback is a pretty big part of what sound does. But despite that, we're not often taught interaction design during our training as composers or sound designers. … [Read more...]