Sunday, 14 March 2021

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Is there any information online on who did the ADR and sound mixing for the Bayformers? Or for Bumblebee for that matter?

B/c like, okay, I do feel like artistically the Bayformers get a bad rap just b/c the scripts are... awful, the acting is horribly inconsistent and also Bay's signature style does more to obscure the visuals than really revel in them, I do still occasionally hear people talk about what a good job ILM has been doing throughout the whole series, but CinemaWins mentioning the ADR was the first time I realised I'd ever heard anyone talk about the sound design.

In general, foley and ADR are such thankless jobs (as is composing for film) -- it's the kind of thing nobody notices if it's good and works with the scene but that gets mocked if it stands out in a bad way? Also humans are good at pattern recognition, which is why even in the age of seemingly endless sound libraries, you're still mostly stuck to handcrafting.

It's almost like a companion discipline to animation, I feel, except while visual artists get accolades and no pay, I feel like audio techs don't often even get the accolades, and who knows how well they get paid.

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