Now, let's see these two videos about Foley, viewed at PolyPink. There, they call Foley "The Art of Lie", "because you have to use something to create sound and make the listener think it’s something else." Foley is totally an art, a really hard work given by creativity and experimentation with several objects and tools to create many sounds in many ways. The videos speak for … [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...]