Recently, Dolby has unveiled two new technologies, both for films and video games. The first surprise is the announce of Dolby Surround 7.1 at ShoWest 2010. Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced it is working with Walt Disney Pictures(R) and Pixar(R) Animation Studios to deliver a new audio format, Dolby(R) Surround 7.1. Disney(R) and Pixar have stated that Dolby Surround 7.1 … [Read more...]
Game Audio Podcast #3 Available Now
The third Game Audio Podcast is available now for download. This time the discussion is about "Interactive and Dynamic Music", with special guests such as Vincent Diamante (Composer/Sound Designer), Scott Morton (Composer/Sound Designer) and Wilbert Roget (Composer, Music Editor/Implementer). They also talk about some news featuring software such as Hybrid Reverb 2 – Zappa IR … [Read more...]
"Social Sound Design", New Q&A Site for Collaboration Between Sound Designers
Andrew Spitz, from {sound + design} has launched a new website called "Social Sound Design", a place oriented to all kind of sound guys who wants to collaborate by questions and answers. Andrew said: Sound design has many facets. As sound designers, we may step into the shoes of an artist, programmer, editor, storyteller or engineer. Because we play so many roles, we may not … [Read more...]
Blastwave FX and Avid Announce New Sound Design Competition
Blastwave FX and Avid announced a new Sound Design Competition with the chance to win more than $12.000 on Avid/Blastwave FX products. RULES Submit: A 0:30 – 0:45 second video with stereo soundtrack. The total length should include the intro and outro video clips provided in the Competition Download Pack. You must use at least three sound effects from the competition … [Read more...]
New Sound Effects Recording Group on Flickr
Recently, sound designer Chuck Russom created a new Flickr Group to collect pictures of sound effects recording sessions of sound designers and field recordists out there. See the slideshow to view some of the images from the group, and join the group to share yours! … [Read more...]
AudioMedia January Issue Now Online With More "Avatar" Sound
AudioMedia has just published the January Issue of his magazine, featuring a cool article about the sound of Avatar, about which we had already read also in Mix days ago. This time we have more info about the the main challenge of the sound team and how they work to get an amazing sound for an amazing film. You can also find nice articles about some products such as Sound … [Read more...]
"Sound Designer" Brice Carrington Gets 4 Years for Fraud
A Pleasanton man who falsely claimed he was a three-time Oscar-winning sound designer was sentenced Friday to four years in federal prison for defrauding investors of nearly $4 million in an investment scheme. Scene 1 - Lying It was Brice Carrington who gave King Kong his roar, the T-Rex and other dinosaurs their menacing sound in the movie Jurassic Park, put the hiss in Snakes … [Read more...]