Game jam #3: cybernetic bunnies and killer veg
A bit on music audio implementation via Fmod and Unity in bullet hell video game Hare Runner, where as a cybernetic bunny you hunt the last remaining veggies.
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Urgency of now
I had a total blast at GameSoundCon 2022. Just a quick post to share a favorite bit of wisdom from those two days.
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Play another awesome video game made in 3 days
I was audio lead on the Sleepy Donut team for another Ludum Dare game jam. A 3rd place in audio out of almost 2,000 submissions? We’ll take it!
Achievement unlocked: work on a chart-topping album.
I have now contributed to a chart-topping album. (Cue my expression of dumbfounded shock.) I supervised the creation of the skits on R&B singer Brent Faiyaz’s album Wasteland.
The physics of music, illustrated.
Check this out: guitar strings silhouetted against the sky, filmed from the inside of a 12-string guitar as someone plays a tune called “Lick Mountain Ramble.” The “stop-motion” effect induced by the very nature of video lets us see the lengths & shapes of the waves which are resonating through each string.
Voiceover Funnies: Orson Welles and frozen peas
Another old classic. Oh Orson Welles, how snooty can you get when you’re reading copy for a frozen peas ad? This is so quotable… “The right reading for this line is the one I’m giving it.”
Voiceover Funnies: sound choir at the oscars
A while back, this group of voice artists (singers? actors? both?) appeared on the Oscars to provide the soundtrack to a montage of classic film moments… with just their mouths and bodies. Yes, they do all the sound effects and foley with vocal noises and body percussion. For a musician and sound geek like me, it’s AWESOME.
Voiceover Funnies: Five Men and a Limo
Continuing with my little series of funny voiceover links, here is another V.O. classic called “Five Men and a Limo,” featuring five huge (and instantly recognizable) voice over talents, led by the late Don LaFontaine. It was produced for the Key Art Awards some years ago.
Voiceover Funnies: the Comedian trailer.
I’m starting a little series of entertaining voice-over related links. First, and a real classic now for me, is this trailer for Jerry Seinfeld’s film, The Comedian. Jerry’s not in it. Instead it features ubiquitous trailer voice over guy Hal Douglas, essentially mocking the many bombastic, big-voiced movie trailers that certainly must be his bread and butter.