21 Sound
As much as we have focused on the visual aspect of animation, sound design radically affects how we interpret those visuals. Sound can add context and clarity, sell a scene’s believability, immerse an audience, or tell an entirely different story. Chuck Jones made great comedic surrealism in his 1953 Looney Tunes vehicle Duck Amuck, in which Daffy Duck goes to war with an animator who replaces his voice with disparate animal sounds.
Since the advent of synchronized sound, films have been audio visual mediums. In the same way that the previous chapter highlighted principles of animation, art and design, sound has various elements and principles that you can focus on improving with each of your own films as much as we focus on improving ...
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