David Nichols, of the Track Time Audio blog, has posted a second part of his interview with Nick Wiswell, the Audio Director at Turn 10 and audio overseer of the Forza Motorsport games. In this part, Nick discusses how his team used FMOD to implement the audio, how they sourced rarer vehicles, the complexity of Racing audio, and working with Lance Hayes on the UI sounds and … [Read more...]
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Interview with Nick Wiswell, Audio director of Turn 10
The vehicle focused Track Time Audio blog has posted an interview with Turn 10's and ex-Bizarre Creations Creative Audio Director Nick Wiswell, covering the production of Forza Motorsport 4 and the pipeline of recording sessions to finished in-game audio for the car engines. TTA: Could you talk a bit about the process a vehicle goes through between recording session and … [Read more...]
Nick Wiswell on “Forza Motorsport 4”
New article from Develop Magazine, October's Issue: PUT TOGETHER Forza Motorsport 4 and racing car audio specialist Nick Wiswell, and arguably you have a marriage made in game audio heaven. UK game audio’s loss was US studio Turn 10’s gain as Wiswell and his family upped sticks, moving from Cheshire to Redmond just over one year ago. With a wealth of experience garnered whilst … [Read more...]
Vehicle Engine design – Project CARS, Forza Motorsport 5 and REV
With this article I really wanted to find out about the nuts and bots of vehicle engine sound design and implementation. So I contacted a few people and got some great responses and a fascinating insight into the process. My thanks to Stephen Baysted, Audio Director and Composer at Slightly Mad Studios, Greg Hill, Sound Designer at Soundwave Concepts, Adam Boyd, Sound Designer … [Read more...]
Max Payne vs. Mazda, and the Sounds of Violence
IGN have posted an article on game audio, focusing discussion on Max Payne 3 and Forza Motorsport 4. Various members of Rockstar's audio teams are interviewed ( Nick Warseck, audio lead at Rockstar New England and Steve Donohoe, lead audio designer at Rockstar Toronto ) , along with Nick Wiswell and Adam Wilson of Turn 10. An excerpt of the article is below Max … [Read more...]