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From Blizzard to Vox Machina with Composer Neal Acree

The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook

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How to Create a Sound Palette for World of Warcraft

"World of Warcraft is like there's a jigsaw puzzle with 50% of the pieces kind of there, and they're going now we need you to add in a bunch of throughout," he says. "You're not creating a sound from scratch, but you're also doing no favors to just emulate what's already there that so that's its own challenge" The best known thing I've done relating to World of Warcraft is this piece called Arthas My Son, the Lich King cinematic that starts with a solo boy singing a melody that Jason Hayes wrote. 'I'm sure I learned that working for Joel because we're working on the Stargate show that already had David Arnold's themes

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