User:BigIdeas70258

On the Wikia group, I'm "BigIdeas70258". I am very concious of sound and very fond of the creatives of Skywalker Sound, Hacienda Post (and relative studios/teammates), DigiPost.TV, Glenwood Editorial, Weddington Productions/Technicolor, Warner Bros./Audio Circus, and of course Joel Valentine, as well as a little of Advantage Audio.

My favorite sound designers include Ben Burtt, Jeff Hutchins, Gary Rydstrom, Joel Valentine, Glenn Oyabe, Michael Gesiler, Randy Thom, Robert Hargreaves, Steve Boeddeker, Christopher Boyes, David Acord, and Will Files, among many others (namely of Skywalker Sound and Hacienda Post).

Ever since I was fairly young, I was aware of sound effects--what I recognized, what I dislike, what sounded funny--being as on-point as I could in imitating them (kind of the way our title character in Life, Animated, a Skywalker Sound project, would imitate Disney sound effects). Sometime during 2007 I began to appreciate the work of Ben Burtt (particularly the sound accent Darth Vadar "exploding" from Luke's lightsaber in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back), and well before them I enjoyed and recognized Joel Valentine and his style from The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. In 2008 I began to become familiar with the name of Hacienda Post, and would further recognize the work of Gary Rydstrom, who did the sound design for Toy Story, the first film I ever saw, which was really implanted into memory in 2005. In 2010, films like Volcano, xXx: State of the Union, Titan A.E., The Terminator (Audio Restoration and Re-Mixing), Forrest Gump, and Pearl Harbor helped me become very interested in the unique sound library of Skywalker Sound and their amazing creatives; in 2011 I began to keep list tracks of Skywalker's people over the years. In 2013, I began to follow other sound services and update credits for them eventually, including the many sound studios of Spongebob Squarepants and its essential sound designer/editor, Jeff Hutchins. Once I began to enjoy The Powerpuff Girls more in 2016, I found much like for Joel Valentine's work. Otherwise, I've always been aware of how cliche and "limiting" the sound design styles of Advantage Audio tend to be, excluding Glenn Oyabe & Jesse Aruda.

I usually scour the internet to find credis for projects of Skywalker Sound, Hacienda Post and many other studios, including very obscure projects, from the smallest commercial to the rarest movie (such as a VHS of the CNN/TNT documentary, China: The Wild East, a Skywalker Sound project with sound design probably by Ben Burtt), whether I have to buy the films, check a library, search YouTube, look for movie's PDF press release kits including credits, and even reference credits from vairous video sources (which're often illegal, but I don't watch movies there; just get credit screengrabs). Knowing a mere creative, the projects on which he worked, and the [post-production] studio(s) involved (whether or not in advance) can help me have an idea of the post-production studio contributing.

I am most fond of Skywalker Sound & Joel Valentine and wish that they, among other favored creatives, would contribute to the most amazing franchises of Walt Disney Television Animation these days, like Star vs. the Forces of Evil and Gravity Falls (which both use only Advantage Audio, which Disney tends to overuse).

I am quite proud of my contributions that I made here since March 13th, 2017 A.D., which reflect how aware of sound design/sound effects I was. I learned some post-production sound essentials and the roots of popular sound effects (and projects using them) because of this wiki. Thanks for these things of sound!