Archive for September, 2009
Royalty Free and Free!
I’m never super thrilled when it comes to the audio mixing portion of the editing process. It’s not really my thing. So certainly, already finding the whole process to be a challenge, I’m never going put the time in to record my own sound effects for every thing you hear in every project we do. Most of that is already recorded by someone who knows what they’re doing. And most of the time, that costs a lot of money to obtain. Especially if you want a decent selection.
But there are several sites out there that offer royalty free sound effects for people to download for free. Here are a couple I use regularly. Read the rest of this entry »
More From Creator David Boostrom on ‘Turkey Day’
My good friend David Boostrom just completed a 4-minute animated short for the FOX/Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge. I lent my voice to one of the characters – the dorky wizard! – and Kim did the audio recording for my work. I asked David to write down some of his thoughts about the process and lessons he learned drawing and animating a cartoon solo. You can view ‘Turkey Day’ on this site, or by visiting Aniboom here
NEW: Turkey Day Cartoon!
Posted by David in Misc, Production on September 1st, 2009
Frequent collaborator and friend from way back David Boostrom just finished his holiday cartoon for FOX’s Aniboom contest. We’ll have more on the making of “Party From ‘83: Turkey Day” including a step-by-step on the process, and a few more comments from Mr. Boostrom about his experiences creating a cartoon essentially solo.

