[2019] GIANTS & POP/STARS: Making Music with Sound Design

If there's one thing I wish to be remembered for it's dumb writing.

I'm walking to my desk but I can give you more context on that in a minute.

Edit: So there was a lot of content that I wanted to add but cut for length reasons, and one of them is the timelines that these SFX were designed under. From the sound design perspective, it's basically 1 VO designer and 1 SFX designer working on these lines. And they're also working on upcoming champion releases, champ updates, and other SR stuff. It's a lot of work and takes a lot of exploration.

And then if you updated VO for all the skins they'd also need narrative to step in to write and edit the voice lines, and then have to record them with the voice actor, who may or may not be available. But that's all beyond my knowledge and I can't really speak to the rest of it. Just what I learned from talking to the sound designers. :)

Yes! So I wanted to add this in but couldn't really find a place to address the "Pentakill conundrum."

So, Pentakill was a skinline before it was ever music. And then we released new skins for new champions along the way.

TD and K/DA were unique in that we were making the skins PURELY based on a single song.

It has parts of the instrumental for her part of the song playing, yes.

And because Akali is the one who brought everyone together, Riot Strâtos designed it so it should kind of feel like she's hearing other people listen to it from other rooms. So it's like the rest of the TD group are listening to the song.

I'm sure /u/Zimberfly would love to hear that! ;)