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May 1st, 2008 - Mario Lavin, Andreas Varga, Anton Woldhek and Lucas van Tol will talk about audio in games at the AES Convention in Amsterdam this year. This is a four day event, the game talk will take place on monday.
May 1st, 2008 - Lucas was interviewed for the Dutch audio-magazine "Interface" where he explains what a games sound designer is doing all day. Tips about how to increase your chances of breaking into the industry, are discussed as well. Read about it in Interface 119.
October 20th, 2006 - For an upcoming item on the well-known Dutch program "Netwerk" a few employees of Guerrilla, including Mario and Lucas, were interviewed. The item will be aired next wednesday, October 25th 2006.
October 14th, 2006 - I added a short overview of what a sound designer actually is. A lot of people that are not in the business, and some that are, have no idea. It's usually not the guy with the microphone on the set. It's not the guy behind the mixing console in a theatre play. Sometimes you can, however, find one in a tree... If you're confused or curious now, click here.
October 12th, 2006 - Lucas has been invited for (and joined) an expert meeting on the School of Arts Utrecht (HKU), faculty Arts, Media and Technology (KMT). Main topics concerned designing processes, multidisciplinarity and trends regarding sound design and composition for many workfields including animation and games.
May 2nd, 2006 - For the upcoming "Killzone" Playstation 3 title, Lucas van Tol has joined the Amsterdam-based Guerrilla Games team as in-house sound designer. Guerrilla Games is part of SCEE (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) and therefore an official first party Playstation developer.
April 23rd, 2006 - TEDDY by Andre Bergs won (ex-aequo) the prize for best film in the animation category at Festival International du Film d'Aubagne (France). The young jury of the festival gave a special mention to the film as well. Previous nominations included the NPS KORT competition and Prize of the city Utrecht. Lucas van Tol did all the sound design, Alex Debicki composed the original soundtrack.
"Teddy" is broadcasted at cultura.nps.nl at the moment (New Arrivals).