For my recital, I've been working with a team of animators with two of them taking up the roles of "visual directors". They've been amazing so far in teaching me about the design process and taking charge by leading the other animators. We created a discord server as a space where we can have meetings, stream designs and share references for environment and character style guides. My role so far has been to oversee most of the process and make sure that the vision is as cohesive and faithful to what I've written as possible. But other than that, I'm not really needed for anything else. So instead, I've been recording voice actors and drafting ideas for how to approach the composition process for the score. Since writing 20 minutes of music feels like a daunting task, I've broken it down into 5 different themes and motives that span across the episode (as seen in the picture below). By doing this, it limits the amount of musical content I have to generate and is easier to approach than by simply writing music for a scene I haven't SEEN yet. Most of what this is doing is laying down the ground work for composing to early storyboards when I get them. However, certain sections of the episode e.g. "Scene 3 Welcome to Yurahi" will be montages, therefore the music will have to come before the storyboards (as it will have to be specifically timed to the music).
The next piece of music that I'm aiming to create will be the final battle music as actions scenes act in a similar way to montage scenes as timing and editing to the music is crucial to make it feel impactful. As seen above, this will utilise the Yurahi and Balance themes within it (so I'm already familiar with the thematic basis of the scene). The next discord meeting with the animators will be on the 9th of May where we will show the final character designs, the beginning drafts of the set / environment designs and will begin to plan the thumb nailing process (ie the early storyboard drafts).
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Artist SummaryI'm a WA Fremantle based singer-songwriter / composer. Here, you can have a gawk at my studies, compositions and performances. Archives
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