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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Visual Sound Effects! More Optical Onomatopoeia!



Here are a few more images associated with visual sound effects or optical onomatopoeia. Most of these are from stateside comic publications. Remarkably, many of these seemingly silly words are very similar to names assigned to audio sound effects in commercially available libraries such as the Hanna Barbera Sound FX Library.They use such nonsense words to label sounds that can not otherwise be titled.

Words like FLBONK, BILP, PEEONG, GEDUNK and BRONK, can not do justice to what each effect actually sounds like but at least you know which is which. In my own effects library, I am forced to do the same so equally baffling phrases like JAWUBBA_WUBBA and ZACHBLIP_BLOOP show in my inventory lists.


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