Medals perhaps, or something similar to the camera melee item.
It might inspire people to bring in talent from all crafts and not do too much of the jack of all trades thing.

Congratulations to all the Saxxy winners.

Turbulence(overall), Play Time (extended), Micro-Man (action), Dang Good Cop (short), Together We Stand (drama), Food Fortress (comedy)


Personal favorites:
Turbulence for characters, film making craft, comedy, action and just plain fun.
The Gambler for direction, camera, editing and sound(first parts of the film at the very least)
Microman for whacky ideas and good comedy

I liked most entries actually. Playtime had a great premise but lagged a little here and there. Sweet as hell nevertheless. The Dota films looked great but told little story so it wasn't up my alley.

The Saxxys kinda passed me by this year with all the work I was doing. Hope to join a team next year.


Recognizing the crafts is a no-show at the Saxxys.

IMHO they should have honorable mentions for the actual crafts involved, such as character animation, direction, camera, lighting, script, modeling, voice performance and of course sound.

What do you think ?

I'm certainly interested. I'm involved with a few things like Extelevision, but can still contribute some sounds.

Psychodelic is a decent word. I found this very enjoyable. The good sound of the music helped, though some lyrics were difficult to understand.

Camera work's ok sometimes and shaky in others. In many sequences I'm not sure what to focus on. The TRex works for me and requires little animation work :). A lot of cutaways and quite a few shots seem unnecessary, since they don't appear to serve a purpose. I found myself confused a few times, which breaks the enjoyment up a bit.

Some animations do lack smoothness, while others work well, such as the medics guitar work. If there was any headbanging that stood out, I didn't see it, which is a shame. This is all my personal opinion of course.

IMHO this ia a great effort and I do think you should continue exploring your ideas.

The TRex could of course never grab a microphone, fall to one knee and scream at the camera. Maybe for the next video ? There are some good cosmetic items that could get you a good front man singer character in form of the Heavy perhaps, or whoever resembles the actual singer the most.

The dialogue needs quite a bit of work. I can certainly lend a helping hand there, and process all the voice actor takes for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8hOB6pW-gw

Really enjoyed doing sound on this.

Sound design, foley, editing and mixing.

The video needs to be locked one week before the deadline.

An example from the machinima world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILpL4SFtY5k

Soundcloud.com has a creative commons section, and even a group that has nothing but Creative Commons tracks. https://soundcloud.com/groups/creative-commons

Kevin McCloud has a large bunch of tracks he has placed in the public domain which you can use.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/kevin_macleod/
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

http://www.freesound.org has a lot of stuff but you have to look harder.

http://freemusicarchive.org is similar.

And then there is Ocremix.org where you simply need to ask permission from the author.

This type of effect can be done quite easily with a few basic processors.

I recommend you try Reaper, since it is easy to download (7-11 MB in size), quick to install, has no restrictions in the trial period except for a five second nag screen and most importantly it comes with everything you need to achieve radio sound. http://reaper.fm

For radio sound, distort it a little, which is easy with a compressor set to very short attack and release times, or one of the JS distortion effects that comes with Reaper. Then use an equalizer to roll off a lot of low end, up to 500 to 1000 Hz perhaps, depending on taste, and roll off high end, up to 5-6 kHz perhaps. It's up to you.

Reaper also has noise generator fx plugins that you can run on another track and mix in to taste.

If you'd like more help with this, let me know. I can also prepare a little Reaper project for you to just toss your audio files in to and fiddle around.

I've recently put a small website together to house information on my skill set and show reels.

aironaudio dot weebly dot com .

Email is probably the best way to contact me. The info is onsite.