Designing Sound for Animation

✍ Scribed by Robin Beauchamp

• Publisher: Focal Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This nuts-and-bolts guide to sound design for animated films explains audio software, free downloads, how sound works, the power of sound when wielded by an animation filmmaker, and provides varieties of examples for how to use sound to enliven your films with professional sound.Sound-savvy animators save precious resources (time and money) by using sound for effects they don't necessarily have time to create. For example, the sound of a crow flying gives viewers a sense of the crow without the crow. Where there's a macabre element or scene in an animated film, this book explains why you should choose a low frequency sound for it-low frequencies are scary, because the ear can't decipher their origin or direction!On the DVD: three 5-minute animations; sample sound clips, jump cuts and video streams; plus motion graphics with which to practice sound-applications explained in this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Designing Sound for Animation
Contents
About the Author
Credits
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: Foundations and Theory
Chapter 1: Foundations of Audio for Image
Chapter 2: Sound Design and Theory
Section II: The Stems: Dialog, Music, and Effects (DM&E)
Chapter 3: Dialog
Chapter 4: Music
Chapter 5: Sound Effects (SFX)
Section III: Arts Law
Chapter 6: Developing a Legal Sound Track
Section IV: Tools and Techniques
Chapter 7: The Project Studio
Chapter 8: Signal Path and Signal Processing
Section V: The Production Path
Chapter 9: Preproduction
Chapter 10: Production
Chapter 11: Postproduction
Section VI: Case Studies
Chapter 12: Case Study: A Trip to Granny's
Chapter 13: Case Study: Sam
Bibliography
Index