Sound Wizardry

Portfolio / Blog

caruu — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:24:16 +0000

This website was from the beginning meant to be my portfolio. Though lately, it went from that to a distrubution of free sound effects and so that I had made.
I’ve decided to focus more on it being my portfolio and workspace\blog. The new area called Demos, is the first step towards a better portfolio and it’s an area where my audio demos are put, from voices to radio mixes.

I am still putting together everything for it and it will be pretty huge once I get there. As of now, the voice over I did for the video game Heroes of Newerth, is up to listen to and a radio ad for Animenfo radio.

I got various people contacting me asking about the links to various sound mods I’ve done.
These links are down for good as I intend to no longer make sound packages directly for free. I will however make bigger sound packages that you can buy and there will of course be some free samples you can download.
The music page will be updated soon with links fixed and new tracks.

Have a good summer holiday!

-Glenn.

You bring the lightning, I’ll bring the thunder.

caruu — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:32:39 +0000

Wow 2010 began really great. I got lots of fun and entertaining sound jobs in movies and radio.
And not to forget, video games.

I did voice overs for two characters in a game called Heroes Of Newerth.
The first and now also in the actual Beta of the game is the engineer.
He was a fun character to try and do the voice for.
Had to imagine what it would feel like to be constantly drunk and put that into a voice.

Here’s a concept art of the fuzzy guy with a voice demo I put together:

Voice Demo Of the Engineer

The other character I will talk about when he is out in the beta.
I might do a third one as well, cross your fingers and toes!

Other than that, I’ve also done some sound work for radio commercials, here’s one of them that air on Animenfo.com/radio

Radio Ad: Animenfo Radio Ad - Glenn

When it comes down to it, my sound work in movies been quite busy as well. Most of these films are not released in any forms for me to showcase it without getting in trouble with the respectful companies.
Wait awhile and you’ll see them here eventually.

If by any chance you wanna become a fan of this website’ portfolio and have a chat with me on facebook, you can do that here. It’s a good place for me to see what the majority wants me to create for sound packages.
Should you want to follow up on what I work on and get the latest stalker insight, there is always my twitter.

Just recently, I released a sound package which is part of the sound library I am creating which is all royalty free. It is a part I call the grimoire of scrap. I also time to time do stuff pro bono and when I do, I always intend to give out what I create for free. Even though majority of the sound work I did in 2009 are lost forever, there are still some I was able to put into the sound package for people to use.

Here is the Demo for the sound package: Grimoire of Scrap 1 - 2009 - Demo

You can get it from this post here.

That is all for now, until next time. /echo out

Grimoire Of Scrap 1 - Sound Package

caruu — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:29:04 +0000

I’ve decided that after every year, I will release sounds I’ve done probono to the public in packages.
These will be random sounds, no real category to seperate them.
These sounds can be building blocks to other sounds like whooshes to voices.

They are a part of the Grimoire of Sound wizardry (the sfx library I’m putting together) so I thought it be fine to release them.

These 21 sounds are from 2009 which was an active year for me.
Sadly, majority of the sounds got lost in a hard disc malfunction.

It contains lots of whooshes and stingers. There is also some palette sounds there which any sound designer can use to build his\her’s sound.

Have fun!

Demo: Grimoire of Scrap 1 - 2009 - Demo

Download: Grimoire of Scrap 1

Sound Design Demo Reel From Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy

caruu — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:38:43 +0000

*SPOILER ALERT!* *SPOILER ALERT!*
THIS SOUND DESIGN DEMO REEL CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE METAL GEAR SOLID PHILANTHROPY MOVIE.

Watch the full movie here: http://www.soundwizardry.com/?p=371

I also would like to point out that the sounds are “raw.”

There’s no sound mixing going on for the audio, so all the layers are playing simultaneously. Without some major EQ, compression and audio leveling.

Also, some of these sounds were NOT used in the final mix, I just thought it be more interesting to hear it all and how it was before the mixing magic happened.

I did do some additional sounds, but these are the major ones. All the missing audio (like footsteps and guns) were done by Aaron Frensley.

Keep in mind that this is the BETA footage of the film. There are certain things in it which changed for the release.

It took awhile to finish the demo reel. I am no video editor and thus find it quite difficult and tedious to edit.

This is the demo reel for the sound effects I created for the Metal Gear solid: Philanthropy movie which of course was made by the talented people in Hive Division.

The 8 minute demo reel shows the easiest design to the hardest.
The opening credits happened to be the most challenging sound design I did. It took 2-3 weeks just to collect over 300 sounds and to then process them and use. I recorded fires, machines, elevators, doors, television and radio broadcasts, did sound effects with my voice and processed them. All sorts of crazy sounds.

Praetorian (I hope I spelled that right) Aka Metal Gear, had 8 different layers of machine creaks and groans and proved to be quite difficult.

The director wanted the MG to sound wounded, scared but dangerous.
When it moved, it should sound like you knew it was around.

I used my dogs voice, my own, Lucien Dodge’s voice, walrus, tigers, lions.
Everything I could think of for it to sound irritated, scared and dangerous.
I also used a foghorn distorted as a “Here I am!” sound.
One thing we were told was to not make it sound like the striders in Half Life 2 but more how the japanese do their robots. (IT’S GODZILLA!! I’m not implying the zilla is a robot.)

One thing you will notice is the original take with the oil rather than the steam.
I liked the sound for the oil, which was me playing with mud, rather than the steam sound.

All in all, it was crazy fun to sound design for the movie. Here is for hoping for a sequel!

Assassin’s Creed - Initiation

caruu — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:38:27 +0000

Movie by The Duo Group
Audio Work by Hybrid Two
Music by Daniel James
Sound design by Glenn x. Govan aka Caruu, Aaron Frensley
Foley by Glenn x. Govan aka Caruu, Aaron Frensley

“Initiation” takes place before Altair has received the coveted title of “Hashshashin.” Like all young men, Altair aspired to leave his mark on the world. After years of grueling training, fear and anticipation course through his veins. Anticipation, because he understands that this is the last right of passage towards brotherhood. Fear, because he knows that though hundreds of apprentices have reached this point, few come back alive.

New era of Soundwizardry

caruu — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:15:03 +0000

Yippi! Soundwizardry.com is a year old and is still going strong as ever!

To celebrate the anniversary, there are some new stuff up on the website:

Sound Room

The sound room - is a room that works as an archive of various audio elements I’ve worked on.
Right now, as I’m writing this, only music been added there, but I plan to have voices, sound packages and audio dramas as well. Take a look, or I should say, take a listen

Contact

Though not a new page, its been updated. All the junk is gone and only the most important things are up there.
But I’ve also added a way for you to contact me directly (if I’m online and available that is) should there be anything you would like to ask me. I do however suggest emailing me instead - if there is a job proposal.

Now, in the absence of all these cool updates, I’ve been added to imdb as well which was a pleasant surprise.
I’ve done lots of voices recently for many upcoming projects, and hope to have them viewable for all of you.
Recently voiced for Ian Beckman’s ASV7, it was great fun with enthusiastic direction.
Currently busy with composing for Olibith’s new machinima, making an upcoming audio drama and developing new sound packages.
I am also working on a sound design demo reel of the recent work from MGS:Philanthropy. I hope to finish the editing of it soon.

That’s it for me this time, I hope to see you around my website time and time again, and hope for another great year, for the both of us :).

-Glenn X. Govan

Azerothian Super Villains 7

caruu — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:17:13 +0000

Movie by Ian Beckman
Featuring voices of Glenn X. Govan aka Caruu as Arthas(credited as Glenn Goa), Michael Decamp as Illidan Stormrage, Ian Beckman as Kael’thas, Jesse Cox as Archimonde and Kel’thuzad and Khal as Ash.

Made up of the most evil of all of Azerothian’s evil villains, the “Azerothian Super Villains” are by the far the most evil and corrupt. Core members Illidan, Kael’thas, and Archimonde attempt at their evil plans of taking over the world every day! Will there plans come to fruition? Will they take over the world? Or will things simply become messed up as usual? Stay tuned!

In Episode 7, “Attack of the Morons,” Illidan doesn’t know what he has until its gone: Archimonde. After rediscovering his addiction to gaming, his want to take over the world is ruined. With the inclination by Akama to take power into his own hands and new foes entering the battlefield to overthrow Illidan, will the Super Villains triumph in their success to take over Azeroth once and for all?

Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy - The Overnight Nation

caruu — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:31:04 +0000

First part of a movie series of three parts.

Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy is a fanmovie inspired by Hideo Kojima’s videogame series “Metal Gear Solid”.
It is not a Hollywood-style production, but a non profit and no-budget fan movie made out of passions by a group of fans,
Hive Division.

Glenn X. Govan did sound design, some foley and voice acting in this movie and is credited with HybridTwo.

Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy Released!

caruu — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:47:15 +0000

The movie is now released and you can get it from the website: http://www.mgs-philanthropy.net/eng/

Once there is a streaming version up and going, I will post it on my website.

Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy audio post-pro DONE!

caruu — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:01:06 +0000

Today, we finished the last bits and pieces for the audio work of Metal Gear solid: Philanthropy, the non-budget fan movie.

Three years of overall production time has come to a close. It was both challenging and great fun from beginning to end.

It has been a privilege to have worked on a movie with so much love for its lore and its fundamental characters.
A great movie for fans by fans; hailing visual characteristics of the franchise to music and sound design.

At 27th September, you will be able to download the movie for free at www.mgs-philanthropy.net
Also, Hive division are looking for subbers for the movie, you can go Here for any further information about subbing for them.

You will of course be able to watch the movie from my website once it is released.
Also, look for a sound design demo reel for some of the audio that was produced for the movie.

At the end here, I would like to thank Hybrid Two for bringing me along in such an epic journey for a movie about a game that is so close to my heart.
Thank you Aaron Frensley and Daniel James.

And of course, thank you all in Hive Division.