Pacific Standard Creative

Everything begins with a great story, and yours deserves to sound alive, unique, thrilling and immersive.  That’s the conviction behind Pacific Standard Creative, which launches today.  PSC is a new division of @pacificstandardsound built to deliver world-class audio across games, trailers, commercials, indie films, and music. Our division is led by game industry veteran @ericmarks.mpse as well as @craighenighan and @sounddroid — Oscar-nominated sound artists whose work on Stranger Things, Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus, Prey and The Batman has set new standards for audio in modern cinema.  Over the past ten years, Transported Audio & Music has worked on more than 400 game trailers, multiple AAA credits, a Sports Emmy, and films that premiered at Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca, TIFF, and SXSW.  With today’s news, we’re sunsetting Transported to move our resources over to PSC, and every member of our team is making the leap. That’s not a footnote - it’s the foundation, and makes for one heck of a running start.  What makes PSC different is simple: we take a storyteller-first approach, and bring a cinematic discipline to every project no matter the format. Games, entertainment, ads — we partner with creative teams wherever your story lives, whether that means co-developing alongside your leads or delivering a finished product to spec.  PSC is story-forward. Cinematic. Impactful. Detail seekers. Co-Dev partners. Scaleable. And most importantly, user-friendly.  We are ready to do the best work of our careers. If you’ve got a new story that deserves to be heard, we’re here to build it with you. #gameaudio #gamedev #sounddesigner

Next week I’m heading to the @gamesbeat_official Summit to join an incredible panel on Storytelling through Sound Design, focused on how audio is shaping the next era of games. If you’re going, let’s connect. See you then! #gameaudio #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gamedeveloper

Excited to be back at @sxsw this year! This film was an absolute treat. It’s a dark comedy featuring the likes of Judy Greer, Sean Astin, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. You won’t want to miss it. Thank you @pbawiec @samsandweiss and everyone who brought us aboard! #sxsw #featurefilm #bryancranston #johngoodman #seanastin

Incredibly grateful for this recognition from our peers in the sound community! Battlefield 6 was an amazing experience for our team, and it came about thanks to deep trust with my EA LA colleagues built over the past 15 years. Jeff Wilson and Tom Hite stayed at EA and went on to become audio directors for this amazing new game. Thank you Jeff and Tom for your trust and leadership. Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees! @motionpicturesoundeditors @ea @rippleeffect @ea.motivestudio @battlefield @transportedaudio #gameaudio #gamesound

Thank you so much to @thegameawards and the worldwide game community for the recognition! We love contributing to immersive experiences like this one. Congratulations to @rippleeffect @ea.motivestudio @ea and all our collaborators far and wide! #gamedev #gameaudio #sounddesigner #sounddesign #battlefield

Was a great day on our ADR stage! Legendary voice actor @camclarkevoices and his team came by to record some Loop Group for a new feature film. They brought boundless energy and fun! Cam’s superfans might accidentally refer to his team as “Les Enfantes Terribles”, but we know better. He has led the cast of so many iconic shows and games over the course of his illustrious career. A big thank you to ADR Engineer @mmvoice and Supervising Sound Editor @ac_audio_ for running such a great session. Thank you for coming in and here’s to many more collaborations! #voiceactor #voiceacting #adr #featurefilm #liquidsnake #metalgear #metalgearsolid #mgs #tmnt #teenagemutantninjaturtles #tmntleo #tmntleonardo

Our Transported Audio team was honored to support the audio teams at @ea on Battlefield 6! We provided dialogue editorial for this massive new game, which is an absolute treat for the eyes and ears. We got to work on the campaign as well as multiplayer. This one is extra special to me as I started my career working internally at EA, and I was fortunate to be in the Playa Vista building back when the team was working on expansion maps for Battlefield 4. I learned a heck of a lot working with the amazing audio folks at EA, and have carried that knowledge and experience with me ever since. Thank you so much to the audio teams at: @rippleeffect @ea.dice @criteriongamesea @ea.motivestudio Your trust and guidance means the world to us! A big shoutout to our incredible game dialogue team: Supervising Dialogue Editor Paul Fonarev Dialogue Editors @batmundoh Matt Klimek Feri Gutierrez @battlefield #gameaudio #gamesound #gamedev #gamedevelopment #battlefield6 #ea #eagames #battlefield6 #fps #postproduction #voiceover

This week we are joined by special guest Eric Marks as we review 2001 A Space Odyssey! A man with a stacked background in the decibel arts, he was the perfect choice to break down Stanley Kubrick’s classic masterpiece with. Watch the movie then give us a listen!! #metalgearsolid #2001aspaceodyssey #metalgearmovieclub #newpodcast #podcast #moviereview

Ever wonder what Snake would sound like if he were voiced Otacon actor Christopher Randolph? It turns out that back in 1998, Christopher originally auditioned as Snake! Unfortunately that audition tape didn’t make it off the cutting room floor. But 27 years later, here is Christopher stepping into the military boots of Naked Snake. As Mei Ling once said all those years ago, “It’s an honor to finally speak to a living legend like yourself.” #metalgearsolid #metalgear #otacon #voiceactor #voiceacting #mgs #hideokojima

We’ve been incredibly fortunate to work on a number of Fortnite #gametrailers over the years. Here are a few of our recent favorites! #sounddesign #soundmix #gameaudio #postproduction #epicgames #fortnite #battleroyale #gamemarketing #trailers

Last year we created a brand new VO booth experience for @mgscon so that fans could finally step into the shoes of their favorite #metalgearsolid characters. Here’s the tutorial video attendees watched upon first walking into the booth. It features brand new voiceover recorded by Otacon himself, @cbfr59 We’re bringing this experience back to MGScon again this year. If you’re a Metal Gear fan, you won’t want to miss it!

One year ago, we celebrated the world premiere of @mydeadfriendzoe at @sxsw to a roaring crowd at the Paramount Theater. Exactly one year later, the film has found a worldwide audience in theaters and holds a 95% Rotten Tomatoes score!! Director @kylehausmannstokes is a true visionary and inspired us every day we touched this film. We’re endlessly grateful for his leadership and for bringing us aboard not only for this feature film, but for the short film version that helped get this feature green lit. We hope you’re enjoying this film in a theater near you. If you haven’t already, head to your local theater now to watch @therealsonequa @nataliemoralesloves #edharris and #morganfreeman give transcendent performances in this powerful story!!