Dan Reynolds

Hi everyone! We are looking for animators who will be attending GDC to volunteer as a buddy for our scholarship winners!

We’ll have a small social one evening (on us), & it would mean a ton to our scholars to have someone in the industry to meet & chat with.

Please reach out if you are interested!

YouTube video by Unreal Engine Exploring TechAudioTools Content | Inside Unreal

Eric and I did a livestream on it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlwn...

Well it does.

Study sketches of 3 skulls. Charcoal and colored pencil on toned paper.

New, free TechAudioTools lets you get serious with Unreal's MetaSounds - CDM Create Digital Music MetaSounds is a powerful platform for sound, synthesis, and procedural audio and music. And the price is right (free). But in the past, it had some gaps in out-of-the-box functionality. Epic has quiet...

Cool article from Peter Kirn about TechAudioTools: cdm.link/free-techaud...

Exploring TechAudioTools Content | Inside Unreal YouTube video by Unreal Engine

About to go live! www.youtube.com/live/Xlwnu0F...

Official Unreal Livestream!

These were a lot of fun, I really enjoyed them!

I'm rusty now. Gotta get back into it. 😅

A sketch of many hands.

Another sketch of many hands.

Yet another sketch of many hands.

Also here's some more hand studies.

Study night with @meganimation.bsky.social focused on hand studies.

I decided to animate between a few of the references.

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

If you ran against him, it would be chaos!

Mary Poppins was a Time Lord, right?

And Burt was an alien companion attempting to affect an old Earth cockney, right?

No one could have predicted the terrible cost of procedurally generating Will Smith eating spaghetti.

I agree it works, though there's a kind of nostalgic appreciation for the constraints of those older productions.

Audio rate modulation of filters at high resonance - how can I do it without things getting out of control? - MaxMSP Forum | Cycling '74 Audio rate modulation of filters at high resonance - how can I do it without things getting out of control?

Here's the original post: cycling74.com/forums/audio...

YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio [MetaSound] Custom XMod Filter Modal Test (no talking)

I also explored some modal synthesis with it. Here the audio signal is an impulse and the audio rate cutoff provides interesting timbral results.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZAY...

YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio [MetaSound] Custom XMod Filter Modulates Cutoff at Audio Rate (no talking)

Experimenting with an State Variable Filter supporting audio rate modulation of cutoff frequency based on a post from the Cycling forums by Graham Wakefield.
I don't know much about filter design, but I was able to understand enough about buffers to get this working.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGUf...

MetaSound Builder API in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.7 Documentation | Epic Developer Community Learn how to procedurally author MetaSounds via Blueprint in Unreal Engine.

Awesome, I'm glad they're helpful!

When you get a chance, you should check out the MetaSound Builder API!

dev.epicgames.com/documentatio...

meme picture stateing i am once again asking for you to submit a talk for our sonic landscape

Come be a speaker at Our Sonic Landscape. Our game audio conference in May.

www.oursoniclandscape.com

#gameaudio

Does this mean our perception of distant objects' size would eventually expand around us as they recede into the background radiation? Almost like a wide angle lens distortion?

Am I visualizing this correctly?

Wild!

YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio Tech Audio Chat Ep 30: Salon Night (feat. Eric Buchholz, David Weaver)

It was a lot of fun seeing all the different stuff folks were working on tonight!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk-V...

@ebuch.bsky.social

I feel like 'traditional' folks tend to misunderstand interactive media or are reductive of its opportunities.

I'm really curious how nonfiction narratives work in non-linear, interactive contexts. How is player agency handled and how does interactivity affect the perception of the subject matter?

This was such a cool and inspiring demo at GSC2025! Very cool demo of how to stretch MetaSound Preset Widgets into a live music performance tool!

TechAudioTools Content TechAudioTools Content is a collection of editor tools and reusable widgets for working with MetaSounds at scale in Unreal Engine 5. It contains editor utilities to support production workflows such a...

Excited to share some MetaSound tools and widgets that @dannthr.bsky.social and I put together! Get the TechAudioTools Content plugin now on Fab for UE 5.7 www.fab.com/listings/d44...

TechAudioTools Content TechAudioTools Content is a collection of editor tools and reusable widgets for working with MetaSounds at scale in Unreal Engine 5. It contains editor utilities to support production workflows such a...

Hey fam, @ebuch.bsky.social and I worked on a cool plugin to accelerate MetaSound workflows! (Mostly Eric! 😅 )

Check it out!

www.fab.com/listings/d44...

This film's editing and camera work made me nauseous in the theater. Especially the car chase.

I made this as a visual aid for what it's like to develop games:

#GameDev

YouTube video by Dan Reynolds Audio [MetaSound] Endless Robot Procedural Variations (No Talking)

Expanded listen to procedural variations off of Thursday night's groove demo.

@tapes.club called it robot detective music, so I called it Endless Robot Procedural Variations reveling in the rare opportunity to use "procedural" as a double entendre.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VtM...