Sound Ideas The Lucasfilm Sound Effects Library Review

George Lucas, through his company Lucasfilm, changed that. He didn’t just want a boom ; he wanted the scream of a dying star . He didn’t just want a door ; he wanted the hydraulic hiss of a blast door on the Death Star . The library was born out of necessity during the production of Star Wars (1977). Sound designer Ben Burtt, working out of a garage (which he famously dubbed "The Ranch"), realized that the existing sound libraries were useless for a galaxy far, far away.

In the world of filmmaking, there is a moment of creation that happens long after the actors have gone home and the editors have locked the picture. It is the moment when a world made of celluloid or pixels begins to breathe. That moment belongs to the sound designer. Sound Ideas The Lucasfilm Sound Effects Library

But the Sound Ideas partnership democratized the galaxy. By the 1990s (and the CD-ROM era), a teenager with a copy of Sound Forge and the Lucasfilm library could suddenly sound like Industrial Light & Magic. George Lucas, through his company Lucasfilm, changed that