Teaching the Art of Foley with Bastian Gerner

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#64: Today's guest is Bastian Gerner, a Foley artist based out of Düsseldorf, Germany. He has worked in the film and game industries as a Foley artist for decades and, most recently, worked as a full-time senior Foley artist for Ubisoft. Nowadays, on top of his freelancing business, he also coaches up and coming sound designers on breaking into the film and game industry, as well as how to record high quality using a home setup.

In this episode, we talk about Bastian's career and how he started with Foley in the first place, how he teaches sound designers the skills they need to succeed, why he decided to freelance instead of being a full-time employee forever, and so much more.

Find Bastian Gerner here:

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5588918/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_foley_teacher/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCES-9zV4CV9_BIGrqczAwLA

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