#narrative sound design

[tartaruspod]

portals

A lot of auditions have come in for the first round of casting, I’m looking forward to reviewing some today. I’m still burrowing my way through ep 10 sound design. I’m at the start of probably the most intensive scene in the script for sound planning. There’s a lot of distinct overlapping actions going on. It’ll demand a lot of pacing work, deciding how long actions take and how soon after one…

[meteorherd]

letterboxd is kind of insufferable and filled with assholes but i like just having a space to shove my pretentious film thoughts into without forcing everyone on tumblr to see it....it is the price i must pay

[ladsofsorrow24]

just finished silent hill 2. got the "leave" ending...

i have to stop myself from crying since i went to the hallway and listened to mary and james's conversation until the end....

THAT FUCKING LETTER BROKE MY HEART I AM SOBBING SO MUCH BRO

but... yeah that ending is such a bittersweet end, i can only hope james can move on with his life... in whatever way he'll choose. and for laura to have a better future. 🥲

also goddamnit james, eddie and angela are really victims of circumstances... i wonder how they actually are if nothing bad happened to them, but also... that's how trauma is, it doesn't make you stronger, it just ended up changing you fundamentally as a person to the point you might not even recognized the face that stare back at you in the mirror

but the only way is to live with it, while finding ways to... gain strength and not let it be the only thing that shaped your current self.

it's possible, but it's hard work.

[the-light-of-stars]

finished watching a playthrough of Signalis (don't have anything to play it on myself) and ough.

Gonna stare at the wall for a bit now

[sickgraymeat]

It’s Friday morning “crying real tears about how Nina from Molly of Denali reacted to Molly surprise visiting her on her birthday” hours

[no1ryomafan]

Thinking about how it’s gonna be year of the dragon and everyone on the Japanese side is making art of getter dragon and I’d like to commit to it in some fashion except with Kyodai Dragon from New- until I realized two things:

That thing gonna be more of a pain in the ass to draw than Getter Dragon especially since it hardly has a proper ref page that I might as well attempt Shin Dragon instead 💀

Even if I tag or mention it within the post everyone is probably gonna be confused “why are you using *emperor* instead of some form of Dragon” since afaik that’s still a misconception with Kyodai and while I doubt anyone won’t be rude the whole thing gives me a headache even still

[spaciebabie]

no judge, I'm just curious what about Springtrap do you like? aesthetic? personality? errything?

all of the above. he's evil and dastardly and i live for characters who are just Evil.

there's just something abt them. i love fucked up characters

also i rlly like how he pays for his actions in the most torturous way possible. idk i hate him so much that i love him. i want 2 slam his head inta a wall repeatedly. i want him 2 suffer

[cthulhumystery]

We're thrilled and chilled to have been nominated for TEN NJ Web Fest awards across both the #ActualPlay and #NarrativeFiction categories!! 🙀 Thanks so much for recognizing our uncanny genre fusion and the talents of our incredible team! #WeGotNominated

[bigfishthemusical]

doing a project about sound design and it makes me wish I had learned more of the technical elements of sound when I had the chance cause this is so much fun but I don’t think I have nearly enough knowledge about speakers and consoles to actually ever design sound for a show

[sibyl-of-space]

it is absurd how different my grad school experience and life trajectory would be if my school didn't hire the c#/unity professor right when they did. thanks to that one course i have been throwing myself wholeheartedly into game development and i feel like i've finally found The Thing I Want To Do. i get to be an artist, a musician, a sound designer, a problem-solver, a developer, all at once. i get to be experimental and i get to have fun and i get to make things that are really cool. i get to do a little bit of everything and learn so many new things. i get to leave my own mark on the medium that shaped me so much growing up!!!

but i never thought i could do it until i took one course that showed me that i could, and now i cannot imagine any other future for me. like will it pay my bills? probably not. but i am going to keep doing it anyway. until it stops being fun and rewarding, but right now, it is so fun and rewarding. it is worth the slight stress of giving myself deadlines, because i am making things that are so cool. words are failing me and i'm tired but it just feels Really Good to know that i've found something that feels so right. i don't have to choose between art and music and code. i can do all of those things!!!!!!

[bmpmp3]

so i’ve always been of the opinion that the whole twist ending of Drawn to Life The Next Chapter is wack as HELL but i will say it is a bit of a power move to do an “it was all a dream” ending where the person dreaming isn’t even the perspective character. just some guy

[tartaruspod]

a melange of progress

a melange of progress

It’s been a little longer since the last post, so now there’s a whole mess of tasks to talk about! I’ve continued with designing sound effects for Episode 10. I’m sometimes worried I’m overdoing it with layering up sounds! My most common technique has been to import at least 3 or 4 versions of a sound (e.g. a door open or a gunshot) and then merge everything together, shifting volumes and…

[megagrind]

Wake up babes new capstone idea just dropped 💡

[yakamozarda]

I think i should like. Talk to my therapist about taking a gap year bc i feel like i need a proper rest that wont be related to anything i wanna do in long term and just Chill but at the same time idk how to. Rest. Like it is legit something im bad at i cant fucking rest more than a week and i feel like i need more than a week to fucking unmentally ill myself or some shit. I dont fucking know man

[bryceypants]

Balatro's music and sound design feels the game is massaging the back of my brain

[vanishingmoments]

I was looking through the awards that Zone of Interest got and even though it rightfully won awards in its sound categories at a decent number of festivals/award shows, it didn't win them at the majority which makes me concerned that either a lot of festivals don't value sound enough to even have awards for it, or they do but the winners are chosen at random.