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Table of Contents Welcome to the latest blast from The Sampler! Robot City: Everyday Sounds into SFX SmartSound Turns 10 (And It's Still Growing) An SFX History Detour: You Don't Know Jack! Search Millimeter's Library What's New Welcome to the latest blast from The Sampler! We've got an interesting potpourri for you this time around. First up is an exclusive look at the sound effects design for the hit film Robots, including some techniques any sound studio can emulate. Then we check in with the good people at SmartSound for a glimpse of their revolutionary soundtrack creation software. Finally, our ongoing series on the history of SFX takes a detour to introduce you to a very special figure.
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Everyday Sounds into SFX
I took my wife and kids (a teen and a 'tween) to see the hit animated film Robots the other night and we all came away very impressed. The look of the movie—an intricate sort of retro-future world of robots, with nary a human in sight—is unlike anything you've ever seen before, and it's certainly on a creative par with Finding Nemo, Shark Tale, or any of the other modern milestones of computer animation. It's got a funny and surprisingly sophisticated script, and the voice characterizations, by everyone from Robin Williams to Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, and teen comedian Amanda Bynes, are outstanding. Robots is also a sound effects extravaganza, as you might expect. I was sufficiently impressed by the sonic world in the film that I called up sound designer and supervising sound editor Sean Garnhart to find out a bit about the SFX job. To read the rest of this article, click here. ADVERTISEMENT 
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