GameDev Conference 2018 Тарас Терлецький "Як організувати роботу з вашим дизайнером по звуку"

1. How to manage your work
with
Sound designer/Music
composer

2. Making Sound
Touch
Sight
Smell
Taste

3. Taras Terletskyy
•Sounds Designer
•taraster@samplerate.org

4. So the Question is……
How important is sound?*
Surely we can get this from the Internet?
What is a Soundtrack, SFX, Ambient?
Why aren’t they for free?

5. Well lets use the Free content?
Getting it free from the web…..
• You become responsible for the sound quality in your team.
• You can not make any changes that your project needs
Copy and Paste
• A Sound Designer can recognise copy/pasted content… Legal implications

7. Quick Tech Update

8. Technical Review….lesson one…
4 Sound categories
Sound Effects (SFX)
• short sounds - knobs, swords slices, door closing
Ambient
• setting location in Game, like a forest, sea shore
Music
• Sound tracks made by music composer for the game
Voice Over
• voices of characters

9. Reverberation….
Reverberation is the persistence of a sound after a sound is produced and adds
quality to your audio….. Things like Wet, Time, Decay….

10. So lets run through the following……
● What do you need to start?
● Sound Track creating process
● SFX creating process
● Ambient Sound design
● Getting a Sound designer

11. so where do we start?

12. So what is the Scope of Work?
About 2-6 months before launch date
Game design has to be finished
All animation is ready to show
All characters are ready to show
A clear understanding of what is needed and what you want ….

13. Before you create final Audio….
Game design has to be finished……. and not all games are the same*

14. And your characters need to be seen….
Make all the characters first, if you don’t your sound designer will not understand
your objectives
=/

15. Animations need to have a set length
Changes in animation will effect Sound Design more changes will add cost

16. SFX Creation steps
Listening to examples and watching videos
Record
Listening in game (!!!)
Approval

17. Sound Effects…. SFX design
So what does an effects document look like?

18. Which is different to a Sound Track Design
doc

19. Phases of Soundtrack creative process:
Listening examples, learning game, finding groove
Demo
• it’s not a sound track, it’s only a short piece of a melody with a few instruments
to understand what composer "hears" for your game
Live
• Once approved the whole soundtrack can be recordedw with live instruments.
Changes Cost….

20. Recording Mixing
Mastering

21. Soundtrack is not a Jingle!
Length Based on Cycled Purpose
OST 1-3 minutes the spirit of
the game
most of the
times “yes”
To illustrate
a group of
events in
game
Jingle 2-30 sec. the OST’s most of the
times “no”
To illustrate
a separated
event in
game

22. Well this is good should I employ a
Sound Designer?
To have a full-time SD you have to:
build a studio or make a working place for your SD, that has to
contain at least one room for audio…
buy a lot of stuff: microphones, sound cards, computers, remote
recorders and more, and more, and more…
Often they work in the middle of the night or early morning and
search of effects

23. The final polish
Final Mixing - Corrects all the volume balance, makes your game sound better,
and the final product for your title

24. Special thanks to
Mr. Dave Cockle
for help in editing this
speach!