Animating with Blender

Where to Record

The location and portability of the recording equipment at your disposal may determine your recording environment. If you’ll be using your desktop computer and a direct microphone, then you’ll be recording in your computer room. Because the point of your project is to produce a short animation and not learn every aspect of audio engineering, you should try to make your dialog recording as “live” as possible. This means that if a bit of dialog takes place in a kitchen as in The Beast, you should try to actually record in a kitchen. Nothing that you and your amateur audio skills can do to a pristine studio sound will result in anything as realistic as actually recording on location.

Of course, you will need to minimize nondialog ...