Motion Design School - Sound Design for Animation (2019) Free Download

Motion Design School – Sound Design for Animation (2019) (FULL) Free Download

Sound Design for Animation

Discover the principles of creating sound design for animation videos that will contribute to evoking emotions, supporting a plotline and a brand identity.

Get started with Cubase 9.5. In the course, you will master one of the most convenient tools for working with sound design, as well as step by step study the process of creating all the elements of sound effects. We’ll concentrate on the niche side of sound production, which is work with animation videos.

No matter if it is an explainer video telling the story of a company and its products or a visual essay (an author’s statement on a certain topic), the approach studied at the course works equally well for creating sound design in any sphere of visual media.

The struggle is real
Where can I get the sound library?
Where can I get the sound library?
This is a common first question that beginning sound designers ask, but it is far from being the most important one.

You’ll get to know where to find it and how to use it in the first lesson.

I’ve done everything I had to, still I am completely unhappy about the result
I’ve done everything I had to, but still, I am completely unhappy about the result
This is a typical example of making wrong decisions when creating sound design. Very often newbies start creating sound design with no certain goal.

Before you start working, you need to realize what objective you’d like to achieve and what emotions and values you’d like to transmit to the viewer.

Everything sounds nice separately, but horrible when together
Everything sounds nice separately, but horrible when put together
Most probably there is a mistake at the stage of the final audio mixing.

In the course, you’ll learn how to work with each of the ‘layers’. Also, particular attention will be paid to the topic of audio mixing. We’ll teach you how to make the final result sound great in any acoustics.

Is this course for me?
This course covers all the required basics of sound design for animation so it will be of best use for beginner sound designers and motion designers who are willing to jump into the world of sound design.

Motion Designer
Motion Designer
Those who want to take their work to a new level of quality.

Beginning sound designers
Beginning sound designers
Even if you’ve never worked with sound design before, the time is now.

Sound engineers
Sound engineers waiting to change the sphere of work
You have some experience in sound design, yet you want to know how to apply your knowledge in an absolutely different field.

What will I learn in the Sound Design course?

It’s a drip course, and you will get two lectures a week

This lesson is important for giving you an idea of the volume of the work. It will also help you to get ready with everything you need for the course. We’ll have a look at:

The necessary hard- and software (DAW, Soundly);
Sound libraries;
The principles of work of a sound designer;
The review of the course materials.
2. Cubase Work Station and Soundly

These two are very important programs that we’ll take a close look at and review their major capabilities and settings. You’ll get to know about the interface, the settings and the plug-ins necessary for the work on sound design.

Cubase is our main work station and Soundly is a sound effects platform which we use daily. We need it to find the necessary sounds.

3. Layering
We will cover how unique sound effects are created by combining several sound textures.
4. Sound Design for an Interface
We will get to know how to create sound effects for an interface. Also, you will learn the principles of work of a sound synthesizer.
5. Foley Effects
Here we will cover the topic of creating sounds accompanying the characters’ movements and sounds of other objects in the frame. For example, the sound of footsteps, of a squeaky door, of a car passing by, etc.
6. Characters’ Sound Effects
Here we will find out how to make characters look truly alive. We will learn how to create characteristic sounds and voices for them.
7. Creating Ambience
One of the main topics in sound design is creating a sound background that influences the identification and perception of the action setting.
8. Special Sound Effects
We will cover the topic of creating sound effects, which are usually impossible to be recorded on the microphone.
9. Voiceover Editing
In this lesson, we will share our experience of editing and processing voiceover tracks.
10. Final Mix
The fact that you have successfully completed all the previous stages doesn’t mean the work is done. Now we need to set the right volume balance between the elements of the mix. We will also explore different volume standards for various digital platforms.