Hey everybody! It's Monday! Time to make stuff! Maaaaake stuuuuuff... Today I challenge you to make something for yourself, not for someone else, not in exchange for money... Finger paint a hot dog just cuz you wanna finger paint a hot dog!

If any single techbro pushing genAI had 1% of the incredible artists (incl writers, film-makers, game devs, etc) in their life that I do, they'd never ever put their talents and energy towards making machines that steal from them to spit out soulless garbage facsimiles of creativity.

Not bad Restoule

The urge to loudly and boisterously pretend I got on the wrong flight like Kevin McCalister in Home Alone once we arrive at Pearson International Airport is very strong

A visual history of the awesomeness of the matte painting. For 120 years of filmmaking, sets and extras have been faked in post instead of being filmed practically, for logistics, schedule and budget purposes. Matte painters are still on the credits of modern films. Talent remains, tools change.

If you're on LinkedIn, here's the opt-out for LinkedIn's AI bullshit using your content. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Are you or someone you know skipping GDC (or considering doing so) because of worries about coming to the US/San Francisco in the current environment? If so, I want to hear from you for a piece. DM me here or kyle DOT orland AT arstechnica DOT com. Please spread the word

Cat on top of me Cute, but presses my bladder I need to pee dude #haiku

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

Thinking I should start referring to my position / title as señor sound designer 🤔

Solitude music: diedlonely, nightblure - runaway

Good morning good people! Pleased to say the rest of 2025 looks fairly packed with sound design for game cinematics and trailers 🎮 Feeling blessed to do what I love and receive funds to live and have some fun 🙏 I got some slots in December that could be filled but time to look to 2026 and beyond! 💪

Finally got around to checking out Alien Earth... as an Alien mega fan I'm kinda disappointed 😑 aesthetically it's hitting all the notes but damn... it's like the people at the top have no idea what made that IP prolific to begin with

@fullindie.bsky.social Full Indie Summit today! Come say hi if you’re around

Might use this space to share reflections and mediations on gratitude and mindfulness It helps me a lot to shift my focus to these things when thoughts get cluttered, and maybe some of the "fortune cookie wisdom" might be appreciated by some on here too? 🤔

Times like this I envy my wife for being blissfully unplugged and disconnected from most of the goings on in the world

Just got my ticket for Full Indie Summit this Saturday! Looking forward to seeing some audio comrades give some presentations and meet some cool folks

I just saw someone refer to the olive garden as italian dennys and now you also need to change your lexicon so we can all live like this

I climbed into the canopy of a 260 ft Redwood tree to record. It was a wild experience. Hear what I found in my new sound library: thomasrexbeverly.com/products/red... #fieldrecording

Hey sound designers, for nature recordings, capturing ambience, etc, what would you say is a good step up from a Zoom H4n. I’m tempted by something like a Zoom F3, but I would miss having built-in mics, even if they aren’t terrific.

You should come to the Full Indie Summit if you're in town. You should come early so you can make sure you hear my talk. I'm first on the docket.

Been looking forward to this dude Ikyk

“What qualifications do you have?” Bruh I got the T shirt and everything

Oldie but a goodie. Credit: www.instagram.com/stephanpastis

Out TODAY! Trailer audio + 18 minutes of cinematic #sounddesign by this guy #gameaudio

Over 69k (nice) views on this trailer since Friday! 😲 Shadow of Kerensky drops TOMORROW! 🔥🔥 Had a ton of fun providing #sounddesign and #mix for 18 minutes of Mechwarrior #cinematics and this quick #trailer 🙏

"If you want to work on your art, work on your life". - Anton Chekhov

Just ordered Metal Gear Solid Delta for 74 cents Thanks for the gift card Mom-In-Law 🙏

New #gametrailer just dropped! #Mechwarrior 5: Shadow of Kerensky dropping sept 3rd! Back in the #Battletech universe providing 18 minutes of #gamecinematic #soundesign and mix! Trailer audio done in less than a day and a half by yours truly ⚡️ #gameaudio #soundmix youtu.be/Q78-bm6eHLw?...

Ahooga! Final 48 hours of the HISSandaROAR sale Last Orders.... #sounddesign #GameAudio

Another super quick trailer mix in the bag 💪 Spectrogram of the day ✨

I'm constantly amazed by how good Clear is I got exported merged dialogue and effects by mistake so I just slapped this on some temp tracks to keep working... so good 🔥

Super quick trailer I whipped up the edit/mix for yesterday 💪 #sounddesign #gameaudio #battletech #mechwarrior #ShadowofKerensky www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kAT...

Finished up 18 minutes of cinematics and a trailer this week 💪 Time to make pulled brisket birria tacos 🌮✨

Just wrapped on 18 minutes of game cinematic goodness 🙏

Launching Creature Vox Large today: a new sound library for designing creature vocals of all sizes. Out now: www.paulstoughton.com/sfx-store#!/... Quick peek into the creative process: youtu.be/zgRv1BxSBl8

Her favourite spot At least I can get some work done 😅

🚔🚨🚔 What else would send you to Audio Jail? #sounddesign

I have never been more targeted in my entire fucking life

Remember the simple times when we had so much joy and anticipation for the arrival of the venga bus?

So now I gotta wear work glasses (preventatively) because of all the screen time 🤓

Back when you'd wear a lab coat to mix a track!

it is too hot and i have no air con in my work space i regret so many things today 😑

IM SEEING NIN TONIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME

i swear this is for work

game dev joys: discovering you can use the new customizer feature to make the entire cat lime green, turn them into a green screen and overlay a king gizzard video on there

new career path: become a #vtuber who reviews sauces/condiments from around the world and somehow become affluently wealthily