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Five things to remember when creating sound design for animations
Useful guidelines when you are not technically a sound designer and the power of starting small.
I like to create experimental short of looped animation.
Yet without sound, there feels like something is missing. It does not make me feel anything. The experience is inadequate and it is the experience that I want to amplify for the viewer.
When experimenting with creating sound I found it difficult to know where to begin and that trying to create the audio often took longer than the animation itself.
When I discovered that Motion Design school was offering a free Sound Design Fundamentals course, I dove right in.
The power of starting small
When it comes to learning or trying something new, it is best to start small.
I learned this lesson the hard way. By embarking on overly ambitious past projects only to fail miserably. The failure itself was not the problem. It was the fact that I got disheartened, stopped trying or worse still did not complete what I had started.
I let the reigns of my ego and imagination go too slack. This inflated my grand delusions, whispered to me by my…
