Treasure Planet, an animated film produced by Walt Disney Pictures released on November 27, 2002. Dane A. Davis was the sound designer, sound editor and creator of Morph's (character) amazing voice. Mix Magazine has an interesting article with the information about the sound process of Treasure Planet. Here is some info about sound design: A major challenge was melding … [Read more...]
Randy Thom Special: Ratatouille
As you know, Randy Thom is the June's featured Sound designer. Let's talk about Ratatouille, an animated movie produced by Pixar and distributed by Disney Pictures and whose sound design was done by Randy Thom. Ratatouille was nominated for five Academy Awards, 13 Annie Awards, and won the Best Animated Feature Award from multiple associations. Well, let's talk about our part: … [Read more...]
Exclusive Interview with Jana Vance and Dennie Thorpe, Foley Artist on Pixar's UP
Pixar's "Up" was the first ever animated film to open the Cannes Film Festival. Though screened out of competition I believe it could have easily won the Palme d'Or. The film mixed up at Skywalker Sound with Michael Semanick and Tom Myers on dialog/music and effects respectively. Myers also shared sound supervising credit with Michael Silvers and the pair both worked on … [Read more...]
“Underdog” – Exclusive Interview with Sound Supervisor Robert Sephton
"Underdog" marks theaters August 3rd. Helping give the four-legged superhero's barks and growls life is Sound Supervisor Robert L. Sephton. Sephton, no stranger to canine audio, supervised "The Shaggy Dog", "Snow Dogs", "Homeward Bound II" and was an effects editor on 1994's "Iron Will." F. Scott Taylor, a long time assistant sound editor for Sephton, was the Assistant Sound … [Read more...]
“Ratatouille” – Exclusive Interview with Sound Designer Randy Thom
A sound job with great taste, Ratatouille scurried into theaters June 29th. Sound supervision was cooked up by Randy Thom and Micheal Silvers. No strangers to animated film sound this is their second Pixar film together, winning the very first sound editing Oscar for an animated film in 2004 for The Incredibles. Thom mixed the show along side Zodiac re-recording mixer Michael … [Read more...]