Comments on: Sound Design that sells http://www.aripulkkinen.com/2009/05/11/sound-design-that-sells/ Ari Pulkkinen music & audio blog Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thomas http://www.aripulkkinen.com/2009/05/11/sound-design-that-sells/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Thomas Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:09:48 +0000 http://www.aripulkkinen.com/?p=112#comment-53 I just stumbled upon your works through a trailer/demo for the video game, Trine. Great work on what I have heard so far. Aside from that though, I completely agree with you on the canned sounds. For you see, I am a sound design student, working on several student films and animations. It really does break my heart when people just think that pulling a sound from a library is the best route. Yes, it can be cheap and quick, but where is the art in that? Isn't that just factory work? Granted, there is a time and a place for it. You used an example from Heroes. It's sad that they didn't bother designing anything for such a key sound in the show. I'm interested in hearing your review of the second Transformers movie. I have yet to see it myself. I just stumbled upon your works through a trailer/demo for the video game, Trine. Great work on what I have heard so far. Aside from that though, I completely agree with you on the canned sounds. For you see, I am a sound design student, working on several student films and animations. It really does break my heart when people just think that pulling a sound from a library is the best route. Yes, it can be cheap and quick, but where is the art in that? Isn’t that just factory work? Granted, there is a time and a place for it.
You used an example from Heroes. It’s sad that they didn’t bother designing anything for such a key sound in the show. I’m interested in hearing your review of the second Transformers movie. I have yet to see it myself.

]]> By: Tony http://www.aripulkkinen.com/2009/05/11/sound-design-that-sells/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Tony Mon, 18 May 2009 22:12:55 +0000 http://www.aripulkkinen.com/?p=112#comment-40 I came to the same conclusion after seeing the first installment of the new Transformers movies. Although I was quite disappointed with the movie as a whole, I remember being deeply touched by some of the robot and effect sounds. I realize that nothing can really replace the original transformation sound as the best thing ever in TF universe (along Unicron, hail Orson W), but many of the new sounds came close. I'm glad you blogged about this, because I had actually forgotten about it with TF2 coming out soon. Once again, my expectations aren't all that high in terms of the movie, but I'm expecting amazing things from CGI and sound. The original Movie had a really corny theme song (thx 80's rock in movie themes!). I can't even remember what the theme sounded like in this new TF movie. That's quite sad, because especially Season 3 theme from the original (American) animated series is one of my all time favorites: Season 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TZPowHbPaY Season 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlyQ2txgero I came to the same conclusion after seeing the first installment of the new Transformers movies. Although I was quite disappointed with the movie as a whole, I remember being deeply touched by some of the robot and effect sounds. I realize that nothing can really replace the original transformation sound as the best thing ever in TF universe (along Unicron, hail Orson W), but many of the new sounds came close.

I’m glad you blogged about this, because I had actually forgotten about it with TF2 coming out soon. Once again, my expectations aren’t all that high in terms of the movie, but I’m expecting amazing things from CGI and sound.

The original Movie had a really corny theme song (thx 80’s rock in movie themes!). I can’t even remember what the theme sounded like in this new TF movie. That’s quite sad, because especially Season 3 theme from the original (American) animated series is one of my all time favorites:

Season 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TZPowHbPaY
Season 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlyQ2txgero

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