Sometimes, you catch the right directors at the right time, and working with them on landmark movies helps launch your career.That's exactly what happened with Mexican sound designer Arturo Zarate. He got his start working on movies such as Biutiful and Into the Wild. Now, he's designed and mixed 12 action-packed episodes of The Gringo Hunters for Netflix. Zarate recorded over 70 hours of ADR and worked on the project for approximately 8 months, with weekly mix reviews for nearly four of those months. It pushed his creativity (and endurance) to the absolute limit.Let's dive into this process and his amazing work. - YouTubewww.youtube.comNFS: Hi Arturo! Your early credits include high-profile projects like Sean Penn's Into the Wild and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful. What was it like to work with such iconic directors as a young sound designer?AZ: Hi! When I met Sean and started working on the film, I was 23 years old. I skipped college that semester and, honestly, looking at it in perspective many years later, I didn’t truly realize the magnitude of where I was standing. Working on the project at Skywalker for months has remained one of the most rewarding and challenging experiences of my professional career. I remember that at the time, there were projects going on at Skywalker such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Ratatouille, The Simpsons Movie, Transformers—just to mention a few. Being surrounded by top industry sound designers like Randy Thom and mixing the movie with iconic mixers such as Mike...
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