Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Week 7: Audio in Animation

Week 7: Audio in Animation 


 Basic concepts of Digital Audio 


Digital audio is technology that can be used to record, store, generate, manipulate, and reproduce sound using audio signals that have been encoded in digital form. Following significant advances in digital audio technology during the 1970s, it gradually replaced analog audio technology in many areas of sound production, sound recording (tape systems were replaced with digital recording systems), sound engineering and telecommunications in the 1990s and 2000s.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio
For more info: 
http://www.iub.edu/~emusic/361-old/digital_audio.htm 
http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/etext/digital_audio/chapter5_digital.shtml

Voice over, dialogue, music and sound effects

A Voice-Over Helps Tell Your Story The spoken word is a powerful vehicle that can pull in your audience, help them understand your story and make them feel empathy towards your character. Characters can be brought to life with a great voice-over performance. Vocal elements in animation can include:
  • Narrative dialogue
  • Character dialogue
  • Vocal sound effects (gasps, groans, screams)
When performing and recording your voice-over, it's important to stay in character and match your vocal pauses and inflections with the character. Matching a voice-over with the character is difficult to achieve if the animation has already been completed.Recording quality is critical. In Part Two, we will provide tips on how to record a quality voice-over while on a budget.

source:
http://blog.toonboom.com/how-to/the-ultimate-guide-to-audio-for-animation Sound Synchronization

Digital audio is technology that can be used to record, store, generate, manipulate, and reproduce sound using audio signals that have been encoded in digital form. Following significant advances in digital audio technology during the 1970s, it gradually replaced analog audio technology in many areas of sound production, sound recording (tape systems were replaced with digital recording systems), sound engineering and telecommunications in the 1990s and 2000s.

credits to (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio)

I will first discussed on what role or roles do sounds/audio have in animation. According to Michael Geisler, “Sound effects play an important role in conveying action. Music helps express emotion.” This goes to show that adding sound effects to our animation gives life and meaning to the characters as it move, talk, cry, shout, scream and the like.

There are early animation composers who showed their skills and talent in creating such sounds for a particular animation. And one of those is Carl Stalling as the most famous unknown composer of the 20th century, almost solely based on his work composing musical scores for animated cartoons. Stalling's first work in music was as house organist in Newman Theatre in Kansas City, where he would accompany the latest silent film with his organ playing.

                                                      

                                                                Carl Stalling
                                        Credits to the (http://soundsupervision1.blogspot.my/)

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