Andrew Lackey has a lot of experience with foley. Let's check this article from Wabi Sabi Sound (Andrew's company) about the approach of foley sessions in game audio production: A foley recording session can be a great way to get tons of unique material for your game. However many colleagues complain to me that their sessions were a bust. Their sessions didn’t go well and the … [Read more...]
December's Featured Sound Designer: Andrew Lackey
More game audio stuff for everyone with a new featured sound designer: Andrew Lackey. We'll have several interviews talking about some games and Andrew's career, and several articles exploring the world of sound design, foley with techniques, tips, and more! Bio Andrew Lackey is a Sound Designer at Wabi Sabi Sound, a company he started last year. Over the last 10 years, he … [Read more...]
Walter Murch Special: K-19: The Widowmaker
The history of the disaster of the sovietic nuclear-submarine K-19 presented in theaters, with K-19: The Widowmaker, an independent film that cost $100,000,000 to make. It's about the disaster of the sovietic nuclear-submarine K-19. An interesting film with a lot of work of foley and impressive recording.. Walter Murch worked as re-recording mixer. Let's read this article on … [Read more...]
Foley: The Art of Lie
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...]
Sound Design Essentials: Books
Few days ago I showed the first part of a series of essential resources, sites, tutorials, and tools related with Sound design. The first part was about Websites. Here is the second part: Books. There are many books about music production, sound design, mixing and mastering, etc.. I'm gonna post 15 that I consider as good reads, covering all aspects including general sound … [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...]
Exclusive Interview with Amy Kane, Foley Artist on “Redbelt”
"Redbelt" puts theaters into a suppression hold May 9th. Insuring audiences a cauliflower ear-less experience are supervisor's Michael Kirchberger and Roy Waldspurger. The team last co-supervised last year's romantic comedy "Feast of Love". Mixing took place at Sony with Gary C. Bourgeois pounding the music and dialog faders into submission and Roy Waldspurger going no holds … [Read more...]