To continue the theme of finding random stuff in my archive, I came across an audio exercise that I did a couple of years ago. It started off as an audio test that didn’t gain traction; but I had a blast working on it, so I finished it out and tucked it away. It’s a moody scene from a little film starring our favorite xenomorphs: Audio Exercise: Xenomorphs from Zachary Quarles on Vimeo. I have done a number of these sorts of … Continue reading
I was going through some of my archives and came across this. My buddy Jermaine Blackwell (jermaineblackwell.tumblr.com/) was starting a VBlog a couple of years ago and was looking for an intro song. He asked me for some ideas, so I gave him the first thing that came to mind: Death Metal. This track includes two versions: with vocals and then the original scratch track. I did all of the music and vocals and then had my brother Josh do … Continue reading
I just watched Gravity yesterday and…good sweet merciful crap. Such an amazing film on so many fronts, but for all of you sound-designers out there; it is REQUIRED viewing. No excuses. Go out RIGHT NOW and experience this phenomenal film, then come back here and watch this video: I’m still trying to really collect my thoughts on the movie as a whole; but when I remove the emotional aspect and I focus specifically on the audio-design and mix, I get inspired. … Continue reading
Hey all! A game that I helped out with last year went live on the Windows Store. It’s called Galactic Reign. It’s an asynchronous space-sim where you play against different people and try to build up your space fleet, colonize worlds, and destroy your opponent. A super cool element occurs when you start combat with someone. It throws everything up into the cloud and creates a procedural pre-rendered cinematic of the battle based off of you and your opponent’s stats and ships. … Continue reading
My dad sent me this amazing video explaining what happens when the speed of sound is broken today: Granted, the sound quality itself is bad…but holy crap, it is still so ridiculously cool. This reminded me of an element of my childhood that I hold in a very special place my heart. When we were living in Phoenix, Arizona, we would periodically pile into our massive sky blue van, stop at Kentucky Fried Chicken, and make the trek out to Luke … Continue reading
