Where do animators and animation studios get their sound effects from? Do they just have a stash of 10,000+ SFX that they have to keep meticulously organized somewhere?
>>150487426i make all da sounds :D
>>150487426They employ me to go around making the sounds. I make $.02 per hour and am frequently in extreme pain, squeaking, or turned into some kind of machine>>150487995People also steal my idea to mention this
Yes but it's not as dull as you made it out to beIn the golden age studios did have their own collections of sound effects they recorded, Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera later on had a huge collection of sound effects for useOther smaller studios did use Hanna-Barbera's collection but they had to use lower quality copies and probably couldn't use everythingIn the 80s/90s there started to be these companies that would combine what used to be these big ass reel to reel tapes to CD, and they would either license or purchase the studios' sound effects collections and make them available for anyone to license, Sound Ideas is the biggest I assumeThe actual choosing and editing of sound effects is done by a foley editor, very important job you probably don't think aboutGood sound effect selection can greatly improve a gag, and bad selection can fuck it all up
>>150487426Just in case this is an honest question, yes. There are stock libraries of sound effects that are used constantly. Some have been used often enough to recognizable on their own. (e.g. the Wilhelm scream)
>>150488018you are brown
>>150488240From an article about Treg Brown, sound engineer for the Warner Bros. Cartoons>"[Bernard] Brown and [musical director Norman] Spencer would do the sound effects and the music, and I would just cut them in." Eventually, when Bernard Brown left to become head of the sound department at Universal, Treg Brown assumed his responsibilities, "the sound and the editing and that sort of thing." Providing all the sound effects for the Warner cartoons was soon a far more important aspect of his job than it had been for his predecessors. By the time Brown joined the Schlesinger staff, a sound editor could accumulate a large library of sound effects that had been recorded on film— some of them picked up from the soundtracks of features— and add them to each cartoon as needed. An editor still had to invent new effects, but he had abundant resources at his command. Brown's skill in using such resources showed up quickly in sound effects that were both far more numerous and more pointed than before, attributes increasingly valuable as aggressively comic cartoons became more important in the Schlesinger scheme of things and musical cartoons like Freleng's Merrie Melodies less so.
>>150488306What kind of garbage brain motivates you to be like this lmao
>>150488256I loathe the Wilhelm scream. We're decades passed the point where the 'joke' stopped being funny. It always takes me out of the movie when I hear it, and they obsessively put it everywhere.
>>150488370you?brown brown brown.
>>150488400For me it's the door creak. I've heard it so many times it gets on my nerves.
>>150487426Yes, actuallyhttps://archive.org/details/HannaBarberaCartoonSoundFX
>>150487426How do you actually MAKE sounds, like if a character was charging an energy blast? Come on guys, I want to actually talk about animation production here
>>150489117That kind of sound? No fucking clueThe thing about a lot of these sounds is they didn't publicly reveal how a lot of these sounds were made and I can't think of anything that would exist in the 1950s or 60s that could do thatMaybe something with a theramin or something?
>>150487426Yes, actually. They buy CDs full of sound effects and pay a licensing fee to use them.
>>150488637>predictable like a wind-up toyI'm going to pretend I'm hurt and feel better with the smoking hot white girls who crave my ass soothing me
>>150489117Foley art is a straight up mystery.
>>150487426Will they ever get a new sfx loop of pic rel? Everytime you hear seagull effects in media, it's the same sample.
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>>150489117you just have to be creativehttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/d__R3UvoaK4
>>150489117Sci-fi sound effects in the analog era were mostly a mix of theremins, overdriven recordings of mundane sounds, and deliberate amplifier malfunctions. For example, the Star Wars blaster sound effect is an overdriven recording of a radio antenna being hit by a hammer.
>>150488995OOOH!
shoutouts to twisted tales of felix the cat just having a lot of the SFX be someone audibly making mouth sounds
>>150487426bedtime bump for interest
Idk what the usual methods are when they're working with a limited foley budget, but the effects used here when Hater flung the raptor into the sky always stood out to me. Feels very retro >>>/wsg/5978219 What would you even call that sound, let alone FIND it??
>>150487426Cool Thread
>>150489117Synthesiser stuff, vegetables, weird instruments sped up or slowed down etc.
>>150487426You record stuff yourself and/or use a library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7X8u-EjADw (see: 17:53)>>150489117Ben Burtt (probably the most-famous sound design artist in film) made the laser sounds in Star Wars by recording fences.
>>150489516Oh I love this
>>150487426is there even any reason to buy sound effects packs instead of just using them for free
>>150496775When you’re caught using something you don’t own or have a license for commercially you can get demonetized and sued. The more successful it is the bigger risk you take, so commercial projects and artists who plan to enter film festivals use licensed or public domain recordings. For the average joe on youtube with 10 subscribers it doesn’t matter, it won’t be detected like music.
>>150487426I wonder if a thread like this would work better on /ic/ desu
might be fun to grab some silent cartoons and foley them with some of these stock sounds
go to youtube and look up foley videosits fun
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>>150487426I too always wondered where Zone got the sounds for the sound of sex parts moving and climaxes
>>150489117I know star wars blasters are from hitting a cable with a hammer
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-UJQXqlVvrA
>>150487426I was watching Batman vs. Shredder and I find this ringing sound effect when Shredder slices off some of the railing oddly satisfyinghttps://youtu.be/7W-XvNwp2O8?si=sqS3sjZssREVk6TC&t=78
