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0:00:02.320,0:00:07.360 Hello and welcome to the Sound design for Animation course by Daruma Audio studio.

0:00:07.360,0:00:11.030 In this first video of the course I’m going to tell you about the main principles

0:00:11.030,0:00:14.650 and tools that to my mind are important in the work of a sound designer.

0:00:14.650,0:00:17.730 Also, we’ll check out the materials that we’ll be working

0:00:17.730,0:00:18.970 within the course.

0:00:18.970,0:00:22.269 The goal is to teach you to create sound design for

0:00:22.269,0:00:26.009 animation that will satisfy you, meet the expectations of your clients and

0:00:26.009,0:00:27.720 excite the audience.

0:00:27.720,0:00:31.199 But the most important thing is that you find your own vision of and approach

0:00:31.199,0:00:33.260 to creating sound design

0:00:33.260,0:00:37.680 In Daruma Audio we are focusing on original solutions in the first turn when creating

0:00:37.680,0:00:42.320 sound design and only after that on the technical quality of the sound.

0:00:42.320,0:00:45.740 Of course, the first thing doesn’t work without the other, and an interesting sound

0:00:45.740,0:00:50.199 solution will only work well with quality sound.

0:00:50.199,0:00:54.270 Technical skills of working with sound give you an opportunity to make quality sound for

0:00:54.270,0:00:59.309 any project, while your vision lets you achieve a unique and interesting result.

0:00:59.309,0:01:01.870 Both of these skills need to be trained.

0:01:01.870,0:01:06.150 When I say technical skills I mean the ability to understand and apply the basics of the

0:01:06.150,0:01:07.550 work with sound.

0:01:07.550,0:01:12.439 This can be trained in the course of everyday work on processing, editing and creating sound

0:01:12.439,0:01:13.580 effects.

0:01:13.580,0:01:17.360 Your vision is a combination of your cultural background, the things you’ve seen in life

0:01:17.360,0:01:21.770 and a non-stop process of learning every new thing that’s related to the sphere of work

0:01:21.770,0:01:22.930 with and more.

0:01:22.930,0:01:27.270 In general the profession of a sound designer is very multi-faceted and can be used in many

0:01:27.270,0:01:28.369 spheres.

0:01:28.369,0:01:32.689 At the same time, despite the similarity of the technical aspects of the work with sound,

0:01:32.689,0:01:37.750 there are certain intricacies in the approach to creation of sound design in each sphere.

0:01:37.750,0:01:42.770 They include the traditions, trends working tools typical of each of these spheres.

0:01:42.770,0:01:45.090 Now let’s get to the working tools.

0:01:45.090,0:01:49.799 The first one is, of course, a digital audio workstation or DAW for short.

0:01:49.799,0:01:52.640 It is one of the main tools of a sound designer.

0:01:52.640,0:01:56.820 Today there are lots of digital workstations, and the choice most often depends on several

0:01:56.820,0:01:57.940 factors.

0:01:57.940,0:02:00.830 The first one is, of course, the sphere of use.

0:02:00.830,0:02:05.909 In cinema, TV or game sound design ProTools or Nuendo are used as a rule.

0:02:05.909,0:02:11.330 That’s because these workstations are tailored to the needs of cinema and TV sound.

0:02:11.330,0:02:15.500 Also if you have to work in different studios, most probably they will have these stations

0:02:15.500,0:02:16.910 installed on their computers.

0:02:16.910,0:02:19.580 Thus, you won’t feel any discomfort at work.

0:02:19.580,0:02:24.330 Electronic musicians will most probably choose Ableton or Logic, but anyway the choice will

0:02:24.330,0:02:26.980 be also determined by the second point, which is usability.

0:02:26.980,0:02:31.410 It is important to choose the workstation you personally feel comfortable working in.

0:02:31.410,0:02:35.500 For example, we’ve been working in Cubase in our studio for a long time.

0:02:35.500,0:02:39.450 The in-built possibilities of this workstation completely meet the requirements we have in

0:02:39.450,0:02:41.860 creating sound design for animation.

0:02:41.860,0:02:45.590 By the way, in the course we are going to use the built-in features and processing effects

0:02:45.590,0:02:47.280 of this workstation.

0:02:47.280,0:02:49.270 Now let’s focus on the sound library.

0:02:49.270,0:02:53.480 A sound designer needs to have a large library of sounds to solve the tasks fast and not

0:02:53.480,0:02:57.650 to waste time on the lengthy search for the necessary sound texture.

0:02:57.650,0:03:00.500 There are two ways of building up your own library.

0:03:00.500,0:03:05.290 The first way is to record sounds using a microphone or a sound recorder.

0:03:05.290,0:03:07.080 Recording sounds is a part of our job.

0:03:07.080,0:03:11.410 You can record sounds for some particular project or make the so-called “field”

0:03:11.410,0:03:13.250 recording when you can.

0:03:13.250,0:03:16.170 With time your sound library will grow bigger.

0:03:16.170,0:03:20.490 The most simple device for recording is a recorder which you can carry around and record

0:03:20.490,0:03:22.760 all you want at any time you want.

0:03:22.760,0:03:26.920 You may have heard about Zoom, Tascam and Sony recorders.

0:03:26.920,0:03:29.260 The choice of one depends on personal preferences.

0:03:29.260,0:03:34.870 For instance, we use Zoom H6 and Sony PCM D100 recorders.

0:03:34.870,0:03:37.940 You can also buy or download sounds you’ve found on the Internet.

0:03:37.940,0:03:41.830 Today there are plenty of services and companies that offer a large number of high-quality

0:03:41.830,0:03:43.800 sound effects of different kinds.

0:03:43.800,0:03:46.440 Let’s have a look at some of these resources.

0:03:46.440,0:03:49.360 The first one is asoundeffect.com.

0:03:49.360,0:03:52.320 On this website, you can buy any sound library you need.

0:03:52.320,0:03:56.650 The libraries are of high-quality and you can choose the sounds from different providers.

0:03:56.650,0:04:00.930 There are many resources of that kind and you can easily find them on the Internet.

0:04:00.930,0:04:03.290 The next sound library is freesound.org.

0:04:03.290,0:04:08.170 This is a free library, so you can download any sound you like or upload sounds yourself

0:04:08.170,0:04:09.990 to share them with other users.

0:04:09.990,0:04:13.851 Bear in mind, when it comes to commercial projects, you will have to comply with the

0:04:13.851,0:04:14.990 copyright laws.

0:04:14.990,0:04:20.200 Below every sound on freesound.org you can find information on the types of projects

0:04:20.200,0:04:22.120 you can use this sound for.

0:04:22.120,0:04:24.590 The next sound library is Soundly.

0:04:24.590,0:04:28.070 This is a manager, or in other words, a platform of sound effects.

0:04:28.070,0:04:30.060 You can upload your sound library there.

0:04:30.060,0:04:34.280 You can also use the sound library of more than 15000 sound effects available on the

0:04:34.280,0:04:35.900 platform for users.

0:04:35.900,0:04:41.130 You can link the search to freesound.org or add the libraries you buy on asoundeffect.com.

0:04:41.130,0:04:45.070 In the following videos, we’ll talk about the functionality of Soundly in more details.

0:04:45.070,0:04:47.630 As we’ll be working with this platform throughout the course.

0:04:47.630,0:04:51.030 Let’s briefly overview the materials of the course.

0:04:51.030,0:04:55.820 The first video is the video we’ll add sound to as we’ll be learning the work of Cubase

0:04:55.820,0:04:56.930 and Soundly.

0:04:56.930,0:05:00.320 We’ll work on the second video throughout the whole course.

0:05:00.320,0:05:05.100 On the example of this video, you’ll learn to create sound design for animation.

0:05:05.100,0:05:09.950 We also have sound effects, all of which we will use in sound design for the second video.

0:05:09.950,0:05:14.100 You can already get all the sounds and information on the video, right at the beginning of the

0:05:14.100,0:05:15.100 course.

0:05:15.100,0:05:16.470 So, thank you for your time, see you in the next video.