In this video, Jim shows how he made monster voices using a Roland V-Synth GT and recordings. … [Read more...]
Jim Stout Special: Making Of Hollywood Edge's "Mechanical Morph" with Richard Devine and Josh Kay [Exclusive Video]
Some time ago, on the Richard Devine Special we published a post about the making of "Mechanical Morph" SFX library of Hollywood Edge, made by Jim Stout, Josh Kay and Richard Devine. Here's another special feature about it, this time on video. … [Read more...]
Driving a Citroen 2CV Into the Studio, Designing the Sound of "Johan Primero"
Filmmaker Andreas Pasvantis has sent me a very cool short film he did about the sound design of the new feature film of Johan Kramer called Johan Primero. In the video you can see Sound Supervisor Marcel Walvisch at FC Walvisch explaining how they made the sound for the film, specially the cool recording of a Citroen 2CV into the studio. Johan Primero | Andreas Pasvantis … [Read more...]
Jim Stout Special: Making Mechanical Sound Effects
Jim Stout recording and processing mechanical sounds. … [Read more...]
A Video Interview with Sound Designer Chris Scarabosio
While searching for sound design stuff on YouTube, I've found a great (53 minute long) video interview with Chris Scarabosio, Sound Designer at Skywalker Sound. He has worked as mixer and editor in many films, including Avatar, Hellboy, Artificial Intelligence, Titanic, and more. Below are the other four parts: … [Read more...]
Audio Director Kristofor Mellroth on The Sound of "Crackdown 2"
Joystiq has published a very cool interview with Kristofor Mellroth, Audio Director of Crackdown 2. In the first game, I actually did all of the explosions, weapons, and then my teams here did all the physics stuff. And one thing that I knew I wanted to improve on this one was the fidelity and the punch. We had a very specific sound last time, and the way you would normally … [Read more...]
Jim Stout Special: Cool Hardware for Sound Design
In this video Jim talks about his favorite hardware tools for sound design. If you need more information about any of those devices, feel free to ask in the questions post. … [Read more...]