Animating with Blender

Sound Effects and Foley

Sound effects can add another level of believability to your animation. In fact, like music and motion blur, it is something we don’t notice when it’s done well, but it will leave a horrible hole when it’s missing.

There are two sources for sound effects for your animation: prerecorded and live. The Freesound project (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/) is a massive database of searchable sounds under a Creative Commons license that are perfect for use in short animations. Everything from crowd noise to car engines to pots crashing on a floor can be found there and can be easily synced to your animation in the Sequence Editor.

Some sounds, such as the footsteps of a main character, are more easily performed live. The art of ...