Michael Giacchino Talks About The Music of Pixar at D23

Michael Giacchino tells the story of what inspired him and how he got his start to create music behind some of pixars newest and best musical scores. He talks about and shows clips from the incredibles, up, Ratatouille and Cars 2. You can watch part 2 of this video via the link that appears at the end of the...

Music

I’M BACK!! We actually literally just moved into a new apartment yesterday and I’m sitting in my new office surrounded by boxes and I can’t WAIT to start some really cool stuff in here (stay tuned for that)! This was a long time coming, I know, but I try to explain at least a little...

Sound FX

HERE IT IS!.. the VLOG on sound effects! I hope you got some use out of this one. As you can probably tell this is great part of the process. It’s a lot of fun to break sounds down into parts and build them back up using household items… I feel like MacGyver if he were a foley artist. As with all...

The Animatic

So far we’ve done the story, we’ve drawn up boards, we’ve recorded dialog… now we start applying some visual timing to it all with the Animatic! The Animatic stage is pretty funky if only because it starts to feel like you’re animating… but you’re not. I will...

Voice Acting

I love doing voices… always have; the difference is now I get to do them for work! When doing voices you really just want to make sure that the characters that have lines back to back sound different enough from one another… the character designs will carry the illusion the rest of the way. I...

Storyboarding

This VLOG was a monster to edit! I hope you find this as entertaining to watch as it was to record. I love storyboarding, it’s my favorite part of the process… what’s your favorite part of creating an animated short? If you would like to download your very own copies of my work files such...