Once we had heard Episode VII, it was reassuring to know that we were on the right track.
How much did the films’ sound influence your approach to the game sound on Battlefront?īen Minto (BM): After we had shipped our first Battlefront title (Nov 17th, 2015), in which we had focused only on the original trilogy, we were obviously curious and keen to learn how Skywalker Sound would approach the same task of updating the classic sounds, but for the sequel trilogy, starting of course with The Force Awakens. The Star Wars universe has an established lexicon of sounds. Here, Minto, Daw, and Asselin discuss the details of how they created the immersive and satisfying sound of Star Wars Battlefront II. Minto says they had three key pillars that guided their approach to the audio on Battlefront II - to “embrace,” “extend,” and “enhance” the existing sonic vocabulary of Star Wars. Those game sound teams collaborated (via their partners at Lucasfilm) with the film sound team at Skywalker Sound to make sure their audio assets were in line with the established sonic universe of Star Wars. Together they built a massive library of sounds to cover the Star Wars Battlefront II game. And at Motive Studios (Canada), Lead Sound Designer Olivier Asselin headed up that team.
At Criterion Games (UK), he worked with Senior Audio Artist Nathaniel Daw, who was Criterion’s Audio Lead on Star Wars Battlefront II. The EA DICE sound team in Sweden, led by award-winning Senior Audio Director Ben Minto, worked with sound teams from two other game studios. So how do you get a film (that’s not yet been released) and a game to sound the same even though they’re created by different sound teams? Collaboration. 15th) needs to fit into that universe, as does the sound of EA’s new Star Wars Battlefront II game, which comes out today. The sound of the upcoming film Star Wars: The Last Jedi (in theatres Dec. There’s an established sonic universe, a certain “Star Wars” sound that fans expect to hear no matter the medium, be it film, game, or series. The sound of Star Wars is (and has always been) serious business. The full-length reveal trailer for Star Wars Battlefront II
0 kommentar(er)
