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Turn It Upside Down

October 27, 2016 by Charlie Huguenard

Turn It Upside Down

When we're in the heat of creation, in the final hours before a deadline, or when we're trying to prove ourselves, failure can be a punch in the gut. As creatives, we try to minimize failure, or we at least attempt to mitigate its emotional and practical effects. But what about all those times something unexpected happened, and it gave us the insight and inspiration necessary … [Read more...]

Thoughts and opinions on sonically handling fail states in video games

September 30, 2016 by Wilfried Nass

Thoughts and opinions on sonically handling fail states in video games

Picture by gratisography In regards to this month about “failure”, I wanted to bend the subject a bit by talking not about human failure but handling failure as part of an audio designer job for a video game. For this, I decided to ask people who worked on games where character failure is prominent or even a central point. With no further addition before delving into the … [Read more...]

Finding Success in Failure

September 29, 2016 by Richard Gould

Finding Success in Failure

Last year I wrote a piece for DesigningSound caled "Failure in the Pursuit of Perfection" in which I shared how perfectionism sometimes led me to total and utter failure. I thought it might be interesting in this month of "Failure" to take a look at how the reverse can also be true. Of course there are some mistakes that are just that, errors, flubs, muddles, gaffes, … [Read more...]

Building a workflow through trial and error – an interview with Alessandro Laroca and Eduardo Virmond from 1927 Audio

September 26, 2016 by Rodrigo Sacic

Building a workflow through trial and error – an interview with Alessandro Laroca and Eduardo Virmond from 1927 Audio

Photo by Alessandro Laroca 1927 Audio is one of the most successful post production facilities in Brazil with numerous national awards, one MPSE best sound in a foreign film award for City of God and a MPSE nomination for Elite Squad 2. In this interview, Alessandro Laroca and Eduardo Virmond, the two creative minds ahead of the studio, recall their professional paths: a … [Read more...]

Dealing with external production issues

September 20, 2016 by Rev. Dr. Bradley D Meyer

Dealing with external production issues

Let's consider (for the next 178 words) the production process as a river, and we are a drop of water flowing from the beginning of the project to the end. Like every other drop of water, we have a goal: to make it to the end of the river. And as a single drop of water, there are numerous challenges we face as we hurtle down the river, many of which are the result of our own … [Read more...]

How I Failed My Way to Progress

September 16, 2016 by Ashley Coull

How I Failed My Way to Progress

Last year, I managed to build the worst ever Voice Over dialog pipeline. What started from good intentions and the drive to be organized, slowly deteriorated into an epic mess of versioning issues and inconsistencies between English text, localization and in-game text. It was, by every sense of the word, a failure. … [Read more...]

Monthly Theme: Failure

September 1, 2016 by Charlie Huguenard

Monthly Theme: Failure

Failure can be scary. As artists and designers, we encounter failure regularly. At the worst of times it can even deter us from trying. How can we push past failure and come out smarter and stronger? … [Read more...]

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