Punctuate a disappearance
The puff lands on the first frame the thing is gone, never the last frame it is there. One frame early and the trick is visible.
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Poof sound effects
The soft puff of something gone, the smoke-cloud version, the reverse for an arrival, the tiny one for a small object, and the sad deflating variant.
- Ask for air rather than impact, which is what makes something vanish instead of explode
- A disappearance sized to your character instead of one stock puff used for everything
- Download clean audio and drop it straight into your edit
Disappearances for animation, games, and video
Soft puff
Displaced air with a soft attack and a short airy tail. No impact in it at all, which is what separates vanishing from breaking.
Smoke cloud
A puff and then fine particles settling. The settle is what puts a visible cloud in the frame afterwards.
Reverse appear
Growing backwards into a soft round stop. The same event running the other way, for something arriving rather than leaving.
Tiny poof
Small, high, and almost tailless. Scale lives in pitch here, so a higher puff reads as a smaller thing gone.
Sad deflate
Air escaping slowly and falling in pitch. For something that does not vanish so much as give up.
Heavy poof
A low round displacement with more body behind it. For something large going, where the tiny version would read as a joke.
Generate a disappearance from a prompt
Pick a starting point, edit anything you like, then generate it in Morphic.
Ways to use a poof sound effect
Fill the beat after without music
A settling hiss of particles covers the second after somebody vanishes, so the shot holds without a cue arriving.
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Tell the audience how big it was
A small high puff reads as a coin. A low full one reads as a person. Pitch carries the size, not volume.
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Show an exit you never animated
A puff over a cut lets a character leave without the frames it would take to animate them going, which is the whole reason the cue exists.
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FAQs
What makes something sound like it vanished rather than broke?
Air instead of impact. A soft round puff of displaced air with no hard attack reads as a disappearance, where anything with a sharp front reads as the object being destroyed.
Where exactly should the puff land?
On the first frame the thing is gone, never the last frame it is present. A single frame early and the audience sees the sound arrive before the picture, which exposes the trick.
How do I get an appearance instead?
Reverse it. Ask for an airy sound growing backwards from nothing into a soft round stop, with no attack at the front. Same event, opposite direction.
How do I change the size of the thing that vanished?
With pitch. A small high puff reads as a coin or a note, a low full one reads as a person. Turning the same puff up just makes a small object loud.
How is this different from the magic page?
Magic covers spells, sparkles and transformations. A poof is one specific event, something ceasing to be where it was, and it is just as often used for comedy as for magic.
Can I use these in a commercial project?
Yes. Audio generated on a paid Morphic plan is cleared for commercial use, including animation, games, and advertising.