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Designing a Cartoon Train with Character

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Designing a Cartoon Train with Character

At Boom Box Post, we primarily work on animated television series, which means that much of our design work is linear and lives within the context of the story. However, every once in a while we’re thrown a fantastic curveball and are asked to design for something outside of our usual sound-for-picture role. 

Recently, one of our television series came to us with a design mission: to create the sounds which would be integrated into a toy based on a train which would appear in a future season of the series.

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Designing Signature Sounds: 7 Steps to Creating an Exciting Aural Aesthetic

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Designing Signature Sounds: 7 Steps to Creating an Exciting Aural Aesthetic

You may recall that I’ve written about creating signature sounds in the past. So, why write another post on the same topic?  First of all, creating signature sounds is a skill that is absolutely essential to to setting yourself up as a high-quality professional sound designer.  Second, that post covered a practical approach to designing signature sounds such as working on one sound at a time and designing in context. Here, I’d like to walk you through my actual creative process on a particular project.  

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