Weekly Photo Challenge Week 6: Special FX

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The project I decided to show here was a Special FX Sound Design I did for an RPG Video Game.  30 seconds into my Demo Reel you can find the piece that I am referring to. For this project I designed multiple sounds.  The most notable one is the Eyeball Laser Cannon sound. This sound was one of my favorites to design.  So let's go behind the scenes and I'll reveal to you my secrets in how I designed this cool sound! First things first I needed a fire explosion sound. I searched on the internet for a royalty free sound. If you have the means to, you could also get a field recorder and gather the sounds to record a fire exploding. Due to time constraints on this video game project I decided to go with the digital library route and find the sound. Next I imported this track into Pro Tools. I then warped the sound and added some EQ to make the sound my own. I increased the low end so it would have more rumble. Next I applied polyphonic mode warping so I could detune the sample a couple tones. Now it was beginning to sound more epic! Next to achieve the "Pshhyyyooo" effect I needed to gather some white noise. In pro tools there is a white noise generator. Their I created a couple seconds of just basic white noise. I then fed that samples channel to a reverb effect to make it sound as if it was in cave. Next I took that cave-white noise sounds and bounced it in place. I did this so i could edit it as a wave form. Then I took this new wave form and I chose and applied an "Audio-Suite" effect from pro tools called "Vari-fi".  I took this "vari-fi" effect and designed it so it would make the sound decline in pitch. Then after adjusting that sample I carefully layered it on top of the fire explosion sound to give that laser explosion effect! To give a finishing touch I added a bit more EQ and a little more reverb!