Showdown & Remastering the FF6

Greetings,

The machinima made by Khandy and Mark, Showdown; was posted on youtube today.

The movie is in youtube quality so the sound is not that good.
The sound design for the battle was intended to be harmonious rather than chaotic.
Though this was only true for the sword fight.
In the fist fight, the camera started moving all over and the it felt chaotic, so the sound of them hitting one-another became in the end a chaotic Mano-e-Mano.

My biggest concern and what I wanted to achieve most, was the swords being like music rather than the cling and clang, that we normally get from swords.
In order to get this right, a lose blade on a broken wooden shaft, vibrating on a metal surface. was used to get the sound of the blades. There is also a Homage to blizzards sound team in it; when the elf draws the sword out of his belly, he jumps. The jump sound was designed by me, but to add the homage I used the sound of the blademasters mirror image that is from Warcraft 3, to give an interesting layer that worked godly.
Take a look at the Vimeo version since it got better sound quality.


Showdown Sound Design from Caruu on Vimeo.

BaronSoosdon recently reworked his own movie the FF6 trailer. No more rickrolls, and the original music. I also did some extra to the sound design as well as audio leveling it. I think I could've done a better job at the audio leveling cos some of the sound design vanished or was deafned by the music. I will not do that again in the next mix. Trial and error folks.
Check it out here:




Final Warcraft VI [Remastered Version] from BaronSoosdon on Vimeo.

News of the audio tutorial

Hello, been a hectic week so far.

Lots of stuff happening.
Finishing the sound design for Khandy's movie: Showdown, lots of voice acting from my end, trying to get some of the others in the design team to work on their profiles.
It is all coming along nicely now and soon there be a huge update from our end.

When it comes to the audio tutorial, well it is done.
It was done actually sometime ago.
But after watching it and listening to myself, I noticed that it wasn't that well explained. So I recorded some extra information, as well as some tips and tricks in doing voice acting.

I also spent lots of time figureing out some cool video stuff so that it isin't just listening to me talking and talking and talking.
I try to be funny too which I think I failed at horribly.

Now the only thing that remains is my website server to go back online for me to upload it. If it doesn't soon, I be uploading it to vimeo, youtube and filefront. Release date is definitly this week :)

Until then, Be epic stay legendary.