Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times. For a piece about foley artists. On in a series of stories about how to make it in Hollywood. (Illustration by Juliette Toma for the Times) Back when ...

Foley artists find creative ways to add sounds to movies using a variety of objects like vegetables, stumps, and steaks. These objects are used to enhance things like fight scenes or animal noises.

In cinema, they say, the craft is at its best when it cannot be noticed. Weird, but makes sense. Essentially, filmmaking is ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Matt Davies: Sometimes you have to make custom props for unique moments in films like this. [whooshing] Joe Avella: First thing I'd like for you to do is ...

As Hollywood is grappling with the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence, Foley artists remain a key and deeply human part of the moviemaking process. Foley artists craft the everyday sound ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Tara Blume: Every Foley stage probably has a machete. I'm not sure that every Foley artist actually has a machete at their house... [laughs] Joe Avella: So, to ...

A new, locally produced, video game called Never Alone features a girl and a fox on a journey through snowy Alaska. But this is what’s actually making the sound of a fox trotting through snow. “We ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A coffee pot, an old Slinky, a shovel. To the untrained eye, it looks like junk. But to the few people who understand, it represents a life's work searching for movie magic and the ...

Foley artists create the sounds of a character's movements and interactions with the world that you hear in movies. Sometimes they need to experiment and get extra creative to find an object that ...

In a small studio tucked within the Sony Pictures lot, Gary Hecker makes art with sound. His canvases are some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters — from Zack Snyder's "Justice League" and Quentin ...