Audio & Animation

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Project

A lonely young child summons a powerful Demon to accompany her. As they travel together, word spreads of this unusual pair to the ears of a Demon Hunter. The Demon Hunter tracks down the child, believing the Demon to be controlling her, despite the Demons true intentions of protecting her.

The scene takes place in a forest between the Young Child , The Demon Hunter & the Demon himself. It begins with a sword battle between the latter two before the child joins the fight with magical elements such as a fireball and portal conjured by the Demon.

We were able to create a final product that our client was very happy withasked of us and we kept very professional and in constant contact with meetings and updates to the Animator. We believe he was happy with the result.

Audio Elements

Sound track

Set the tone of conflict

Build tension

Fast paced to keep to animation time frame

Consistent so as not to detract from animation

Demon laugh - suggests Demon's ego and smugness

SFX

Ambience - Forest Theme, Wind

Swords - Resampled and edited kitchenware

Fire elements - Sampled fire decontextualised with FX and mixing.

Portal - Resampled Portal open/close sounds, synthesised portal hum, slight horror atmosphere to match visuals

Character expression - Reactionary vocal noises based off the visual

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Prior to the visuals being created, we were given a mood folder by our animation collaborator to help us visualise the sort of project he was aiming for. This included images and gifs that served as style references as well as giving us an idea of the audio elements we would need to collect.

"The Pixel art images use similar colours to what the animation will use. That may give assistance to the tone of the area and feel to the animation."

We also asked the animator about his inspirations so we could research further.

"If this helps as , I’m inspired by quite a bit of anime fight scenes. The main ones that I have been inspired by are; Sword Art Online, Dragon ball, Dragon ball Z, Dragon Ball Super, My Hero Academia, Black Clover and Bleach."