Go inside how three-time Oscar winner Paul Ottosson created the sound for a 'new never heard weapon' in MIBInternational
Three-time Oscar winner Paul Ottosson and the Sony Pictures sound team took a "fun and quirky" approach to the reboot.re-introduces the franchise's secret organization that protects Earth from alien threats — requiring "fun and quirky" characters and sound design led by Paul N.J. Ottosson, the film's three-time Oscar-winning sound designer, supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer.
In the movie, MIB agents H and M, played by Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, respectively, get a tiny alien sidekick named Pawny with the recognizable voice of Kumail Nanjiani. "He has an endless amount of gear, weapons, lasers, zip lines, grappling hooks and a jet pack hidden within his armor that all needed a specific miniature sound design," Ottosson explains.
On the creature side, Kayvan Novak played three characters in the movie: Vungus, Bassam and Nasr. "He did a great job varying his own voice to differentiate the voices but we took it a bit further," says Ottosson. "Vungus being this huge rotund alien, we worked with different formants as well as sneaking in some exotic animals as exclamation marks.
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