It seems that there are few jobs left that computers can’t edge into somehow. A US team has got a computer to match sounds with silent video to an impressively efficient degree. It’s a complicated ...

What makes movies and TV shows sound so real with everyday sounds from clothes rustling and footsteps to someone biting into food? A Foley artist recreates these sounds at a studio, making sure every ...

If Ronnie Van der Veer does his job well, his work will be nearly imperceptible. It’s what every Foley artist aspires to – making the audience forget that much of the sound in a movie is added ...

In 1927, the first talkie, called The Jazz Singer, swept the nation and revolutionized movies. Unfortunately, Universal Studios didn’t get the memo — they’d just completed Show Boat, which was to be a ...

Analysis: The sounds of animals walking, chewing food and panting are almost always recorded by human Foley artists in a sound studio far away from the filming location Wildlife documentaries like the ...

In the dead of the night, GV Prakash is trespassing. In Watchman (2019), the actor jumps up a wall, on to a metal gate and begins to climb down. He slips, and falls on a heap of leaves. The entire ...

What does decapitation sound like? How about a demon birth? Foley artists explain just how difficult it is to engineer the sounds of horror. Photo: Gabor Kotschy / A24 People often ask Foley artist ...

Noodlecake Studios' squirrel surveillance game NUTS stands out in particular for its exemplary art style and the way it sounds - no other game gave me the feeling of being in a forest quite like it.

All over the world, foley artists are well respected for their art and earn quite appreciable figures. However, Ghanaian youngster Justice Osei does it for the mere fun of it. For him, he does it to ...