Here is a small music package from me, with peaceful music: Peaceful Piano

You can use them for what ever you wish except anything that gives you any sort of revenue.
enjoy

So it happened. The one thing I was expecting to happen but hoped never did; My hard drive crashed and died.

I had music, sounds and lots of entertaining and promising upcoming projects on it that are now vanished and gone for all of time. The good news is that the majority of my sounds are safe on seperated hard drives but the bad news is that I had also some new recorded and processed sounds on the drive that went dead. I had to format it and reinstall windows. Now comes a long and ardous task on installing all the softwares and updates to the hardware.

I’ve gone from happy to emo, but the razor blades are kept by the better-half of me.

The radio is now updated with better quality stream.

http://caruu.b2netsolutions.com:8000/index.html

Alright, so everyone got their own kinda music taste but most of us are in love with music from movies and trailers.

I, being a member of the Union of Sound wizards, been given License to many of the top movie music companies.

These are: Future world music, Two steps from hell, Epic Score, Immediate music and several others.
Having license for these I thought it would be cool to have a little radio for the good machinima people to get inspired by and also not getting in trouble for playing the songs.

Keep in mind that I will turn off the radio at times and there is only 25 listeners peak. If there is a big demand, it will increase and I will get a dedicated pc to play the radio that doesn’t go offline.

Current server is in Britain, 128 kbps

Current Playlist playtime: H47:M35:S32

Enjoy.

Hey, Listen!

That link shows current playing song as well as all the players you can use.

Playlist

Hey hoo, there been some recent activity lately with sound design package, audio skits being made and planned, audio tutorials and voice actings being done for many.

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Most recently, Pinkhair won the wegame contest with his train-tooting movie.
Nice to see the first machinima my piano pieces was used in actually won the contest.
Kudos to pinkhair and enjoy the alienware you bastard <3

 On the sidebar, I’ve now added a donation button, now donations are voluntary of course and 1$ is fine enough.
The reason why I’ve added it there is cos I need  funds to take over the world. Well no..

I’ve talked about audio tutorials and so on and I’m keeping on making them but I’m really busy with work and so on that hinders me to finish the tutorials. So by donating, I can lay off some work and use that time to work on the tutorials instead. Now keep in mind I be working on the tutorials regardless, but only when I got free time.
By donating for that reason or any other that comes to your mind I can repay that in a couple of ways:

Your name and what ever link you want on this blog, the sound designer blog and on my future website being planned now.
Your name and link in special thanks credits on every project I create, including the audio tutorials of course.
Sound design requests for the packages <-(limited by the amount donated of course), and other treats I might come up with as we go along.
So hopefully, that can be kinda nice for anyone willing to support.

 

 

On the last bit of news,  I finally got to hear from Khandy again, so no she isn’t dead nor did she get kidnapped by the oompa loompa gnomes:

 

 

Apparently,  she been busy rewritting and stuff for her new upcoming movie and I got a new recent script which seem to go in a very interesting path. She also was kind enough to provide some pictures for me to show

Some very awesome and interesting stuff, I am looking forward to seeing the end result of THIS one

So, that’s it for now. Enjoy.

Until next time, GxG aka Caruu

Ah yes, random title.
Anyway.

Been lots of stuff happening lately, from sound design, music to voice acting and I’ll try to cover all in this post so it might be a good long one.

First of some sad news:

Donald LaFontaine or best known as “King of voice overs” or “Voice of God” passed away September 1st of a blood clot. If you ever saw a trailer\preview clip you most likely heard his voice doing the famous trailer voice he was best known for. It is sad to have lost him in the field as he was respected by many and envied for his amazing coarse voice. My deepest respects to his wife and children. Rest in peace.

Youtube movie of Don LeFontaine that explains everything about the man, the legend, the voice

Now onto more happy stuff:

Recently, the wegame contest came to an end and with 120 entries up and spiring, there are some movies that did well and some that could’ve need some more work. I didn’t have time to watch all 120 of them so I watched only some. It so happens I was ninjaed along to work with some of them.

First we have Pinkhairs movie: The Robber Baron of Warsong Gulch.

This is probably the only unique entry of them all, as it is made like a silent movie with title cards and low quality effect on the film to make it more Authentic. Some of the piano work is by me and he used them right. If you look at my previous blog posts you can find a link to all the music. He also used a projector sound I provided him and it worked out good as well. I thought the movie was amazing and I hope it is one of the top winners

Next we have Firebolt productions - Yohan Vågstedt: Way Of Life

For this movie I provided voices and sound design, I did Arthas and Scarpo neither of them came out as good as I had hopes for :\ oh well. I did the sound design for the movie and used about a week to create mostly everything original. I used some sound libraries to speed the process up and some other sound designer gave me permission to use some of their sounds, though I had to redesign most of theirs. You will notice that in the beginning there is lots of detail to the sound until after the horses are gathered. I realized that time was short and I had to hurry. I finished it right on time which was lucky.
It was interesting and I tried to balance it so that there was only music at some parts and where Nathan decided not compose for (to also save time), I added more detail to the sound design. The battle between the giant and the creatures is without music and just with sound but I love that bit cos it provide solitude to the sound scape and emphasize cruelty and bitterness there is in natures “big fish eats little fish” concept. It should have a lonely and chaotic feel to it which I think all of us were able to achieve. In the end, I had to master the volume so voices, sound design and music all were in balance, as well as making the voices fit the scenes (Bassing them, reverbing. ect.)

Next project is DragonPowers movie: Fight for Survival - Episode One

For this movie I provided all the voices except the dwarfs voice, which was provided by Matt Greenburg.
The script was strangely put together and confusing but the outcome was better than what I imagined.
There will be future installments of this series so if you enjoyed it as much as I did, don’t worry.

Last we got Mushanga’s movie: Wish Upon a Gnome part 1

I only had one character part here which was Archimonde, though he had two lines, I was too late to provide the final line which is something I regret on. I don’t wanna stall a project or be the reason for it not going so well because I didn’t finish my job but unfortunately, I got caught up in so much, my time just ran out and it was posted the exact day I finished the second line for him so it was unlucky :\ good work though, Mushanga. Looking forward for your future installments.

So these where the movies that I can remember that I contributed to. Good luck to all of you

Many people got problems getting in contact with me or listening to my voice demos, there will be new voice demos soon up on the page, very very soon. But if you wanna get in contact with me you can email me: Carummerian(at)gmail(dot)com. Or you can also get in contact with me through firebolt which was nicely provided by Yohan himself: caruu(at)fireboltproductions(dot)com. Thanks Yohan!

Some time ago, I voiced for gnomechewer in his terminator trailer inspired machinima: Argent Crusade: Salvation

Awesome stuff, I was able to mispronounce the guy’s name but I think it went well regardless. Gnomechewer is a great guy to voice for. He got some funny ideas.

In an upcoming blog post I will provide a small audio tutorial on how you can handle audio mastering in vegas.

Until then, GxG.

I wanna dedicate a blog page to Selserene and her cat Sheebee. It is a sad thing to lose something special.
Most of us has experienced the turmoils of life, and everyone someday will. Even though we all experience pain and loss, we all take and handle it differently. Pain is simply a word which there is no description to.
Some people cannot perceive why losing an animal can be painful, but most of us can.
So my heart and well wishes goes to Selserene and her husband who lost their furry friend.

Go to her blog and read Sheebee’s story: Selserene’s blog

For alittle awhile ago I was asked to do some voices: Kil’jaeden, a narrator and Arthas.

I appreciate getting the opportunity to do Arthas, I love Justin Gross way of acting, and felt I had to repay a homage to how he does that evil brooding style with his voice as Arthas - when he turned from good prince to evil conquer.

Kil’jaeden is also one of my favorite characters from warcraft lore, as he is a force of destruction. Doing his voice was not easy, the guy who did the warcraft 3 version made him sound very…”I could sell you your own grandma” kinda voice and also, there is the problem of how much of it is effects and how much of it is real. I ended up doing loads of different versions of his voice and applying effects to them as I went along but I think the result in the end is very satisfying.

I hate doing Narration…I hate it badly. It is one of those voices where you cannot really put too much emotions into it and trying to balance that fact with the reality that you are reading from a script and avoiding to sound like you are. So despite the narration part, I am really looking forward to seeing the movie when it’s done.

The movie is of course by nihilum.
Considering that the other actors in the movie is by the same studio I’m a member of, I felt this was a great opportunity to talk about Skyfall studios as well.

Skyfall studios is a studio set together by artists to create art and share. It is meant to entertain, educate and awe-inspire.
The studio is working in all sorts of medias so that we can provide in all fields.
Skyfall studios joined nihilum to share our voice over talents but we provide of course more than just VO’s.

We are always looking for more talents in all sorts of fields but we are kinda strict on some levels. We try to avoid it being a machinima talent gathering. Meaning that if you want to talk about machinima, you should do that either on WCM’s forum or Machinima.com.
We want concept artists, sound designers, music composers, voice talents, 3d animators, modelers texture artists, screen actors. ect. ect. Long as you can do something considered to be art in some way, you are welcome to join.

If you are a voice talent and wanna join the official Skyfall studio voice talent group, there are some demands:
1) You gotta have demos, 2) you gotta have a showcase of your work and last but not least. 3) you gotta have good recording equipment. As some of the request we’ve gotten is from professional media, we wanna be able to provide them with good quality recordings.
If you wanna still join and meet these demands; email me: Carummerian(at)gmail(dot)Com with your profile on skyfall studio, your previous work, your recording equipment details and of course demos. And we’ll see if you fit the criteria.

Until next time, GxG

So some actual voice acting stuff here.

Recently I voiced for a funny small cinematic Little Teapot

by Eagleshadow, which also features Drewbie, moomoney and Marri.
I voiced for the trailer voice narration and redid the song I’m a little teapot. Moomoney, drewbie and Marri sang in it. It was meant to be silly so the result is silly. In case for some reason you want their singing, you can get them here:
Moo&Drewbie Duet
Drewbie Solo
Instrumental Techno Version
Piano And Oboe

Allo,

While the Oto ninja design blog is being redesigned and a huge major release is being made with all sorts of goodies for you people. I wanted to release something extra; Okay now keep in mind I am a newbie in music and I can’t really compose. I’m not exactly Nathan Pinard, that boy got some serious music skeelz but he is expensive as well but I understand his reasoning.
So here is some tunes that I’ve made for you guys.
I composed 2-3 of them and rest is by a friend of mine.
You are allowed to use these for free in everything except anything commercial.
In the end (emoItDoesn’tEvenMatter/emo!!!)it all depends if you wanna use them.
As I said, I’m not very good yet.

http://files.filefront.com/MusicxCaruuzip/;11389759;/fileinfo.html

MUQ (Made Up Questions):
Q: What program do you use?
A Propellerheads Reason
Q: For composing too?
A: We use Sibelius for composing and putting them into MIDI and then put them in Reason. After that there is a serious number of tweaks
Q: Is all the instruments you used in this Program?
A: No, the choirs is a different software that I had to buy separately, called Symphony Of Voices, also the Piano and flute is played by yours truly.
Q: Will you compose for my machinima\project?
A: No, I don’t have the time, nor the will to make your project suck :), Talk to Nathan instead.
Q: Can I ask you questions about these programs?
A: No, you got the Internet, use it.
Q: Will you release more?
A: Yes, if I find the time to fail more in composing or ruin the original composition by my friend.
Q: I want to use the music in a contest, can I?
A: Yes, just give credit. Link to the blog if you can

So that’s it, have fun with it even tho I suck at it.
Keep in touch cos soon there will be an epic release from the OND (haha ond…that’s a good one *you must be Scandinavian to get that joke*)