The sounds of Skywalker

[SmoochyTX]

The hills are alive with the sounds of Skywalker
Posted by Daniel Terdiman

NICASIO, Calif.--Search for sounds tagged with the word "funny" in Skywalker Sound's library of more than 120,000 effects, and you get precisely 510 results.

Among them are "animal cow," eight different forms of "human hiccup," six forms of "tuba comedy," and many, many more.

It's vital that the sound design and post-production arm of George Lucas' Lucasfilm empire has such a massive proprietary database of sounds. Its sound designers are tasked with coming up with just the right effects to create things like "rat (point of view)" for the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille.

What is "rat POV?" According to Randy Thom, Skywalker Sound's two-time Academy Award-winning director of sound design, that was the challenge he faced when creating the sound effects for one particular scene in Ratatouille. He was tasked with making it seem like the world is small and distant when the film's main rat, Remy, is on a shelf high above the floor of a Parisian restaurant. But when Remy falls to the floor, everything needs to sound larger than life.

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[ryan256]

You know... I get the feeling Skywalker sound would be one of those absolutely awesome places to work.
There and PIXAR.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: ryan256
You know... I get the feeling Skywalker sound would be one of those absolutely awesome places to work.
There and PIXAR.

I'd love to watch a movie in that theater.

 

[Finalnight]

would prefer working at ILM to Skywalker Sound, but beggars can't be choosers.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I thought this would be about skywalker66. :laugh: What ever happened to that loser anyway?

 

[lokiju]

Interesting article.

It'd be so sweet just to visit Skywalker Ranch, let alone work there.

 

[trmiv]

Man it would be awesome to work there or at ILM or Pixar. When I used to work in Emeryville, CA I used to pass by Pixar every day and ride the shuttle with Pixar employees. I always felt like yelling at them as they got off the shuttle "Enjoy your day at work you lucking fucking bastards!" as I continued on to my crappy job in bland office building a few blocks away.