Conference Designing Spaces Sound Design
ON SITE König-Karl-Halle Thursday, May 07, 10:00

The Craft of Sound: Innovation and Workflows at Walt Disney Animation Studios

The Craft of Sound: Innovation and Workflows at Walt Disney Animation Studios

Join for a presentation on how innovations in sound, music and mixing workflows support storytelling at Walt Disney Animation Studios. The session will also cover worldwide deliveries, language versioning workflows, unique mixing challenges and solutions, and the film sound evolution process from temp to final mix through select sequences from the studio's most recent feature films, Vaiana 2 and Zoomania 2.

David Fluhr

David Fluhr, Supervising Re-Recording Mixer, Walt Disney Animation Studios

DAVID FLUHR (Supervising Re-Recording Mixer) mixes the sound of an animated film from versions in development through the final film release, including versions dubbed in multiple languages. Fluhr has mixed most all genres of television, film and music during his career and has been mixing for Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2004’s “Chicken Little.” Fluhr developed and implemented Disney’s proprietary Dolby Atmos post production workflows and the custom worldwide foreign language dubbing workflow.    Fluhr is a former two-term Governor of the Sound Branch of the Television Academy, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Sound Branch, and a former two-term president of the Cinema Audio Society, for which he has been a board member since 1986. Fluhr has earned multiple Emmy Awards and CAS Awards, amongst dozens more nominations and other sound recognitions.   Raised in Floral Park, NY, Fluhr attended Crane School of Music at Potsdam State University in New York, studying Electronic Music Composition. In January 2026, Fluhr was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam.