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@jelfish.bsky.social

audio director โšก๏ธ audio producer โšก๏ธ sound designer | http://katwenske.com | https://www.katthoughts.com | http://teamaud.io |

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.

I personally think VO can add a lot to certain types of games but it's also a lot of work to do it right. There are so many ways to approach it if budget and time is a concern. From short vocal emotes, grunts, dialogue text sound effects and effects for emphasis, or partial VO for certain scenes.

Wander@wanderbot.bsky.social ยท 5mo ago

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

A Steam AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI-generated voiceovers for ingame characters. This is a indie no-budget production. Sorry :-'(

Emphasis on casual and rambling ;) Loved being able to talk candidly on @audiologs.ca about The Killing Stone's game audio.

Chris Rickwood@chrisrickwood.bsky.social ยท 5mo ago

Come listen to @jelfish.bsky.social and I ramble on about how we misuse MetaSounds, source animal skulls for recording purposes, and playing out of tune instruments for @thekillingstone.com youtu.be/CsOs3S9AuFA?... Fun hang with @domcaterina.bsky.social and @daaaaaaaan.bsky.social @audiologs.ca