The | Long | Overdue Update First off… Sorry it’s been awhile. Like, a year. I blame the allergies. I’ve got stuff though! Check it out: 1. The SDE game dev is still going on, we’ve even got a new project in the works for tablet/mobile, of which I’ve got some sneaks at the music for …
Outlaw Clear Up: The Higgins Brothers is coming! Coming April 22, 2013 to Google Marketplace/Android mobile OS. Clean up the town, save the damsel, and have some fun! “Outlaw” by Lazy Fish Studios is a super action, fast-paced mobile app that I’ve been proud to contribute some original compositions to. If you’ve been following …
Jump on over to the Projects pages for some new videos, that aren’t technically “new,” but the permission to display them in my portfolio is! They’re a set of two Audio Tests for a game development company. I was tasked with completing both in 3 days, of which I’m proud to have made the deadline, and more proud of the outcome. Very stoked with how well they turned out. Please take a look and tell me what you think!
The first one is a SFX and Sound Design placement, where the entire video had no sound whatsoever, and I was instructed to add SFX for everything. Music was optional, and the video really needed something to break between cuts and the action, so I found a period jazz piece from a French singer Edith Piaf, a very popular Jazz and Opera singer from the 40’s, and had her song “Padam Padam” as the BG music for scenes involving the sniper and the opening/end title screen.
More in-depth synopsis and explanation is available with the video and on the Vimeo page.
The other video was a test for Composition. This video came with SFX already in place, and required additional music, so I composed the first melody that came to mind when playing the video a couple of times through, and the rest of the piece filled in more and more. It was awesome writing like this. I feel like I could do this all day (which consequently, I did) and am really excited to have had the opportunity to create under such circumstances. I feel like if I just had a few more days though, I could really fill out some of the transitions and mix it a whole lot cleaner, find some more interesting instrumentation, etc. But, for a day and some change, I’m super happy with it.
If you want to read more about the creation, jump to Vimeo, where I have a larger paragraph of explanation like the SFX video above.