[RetroEpic Sound Challenge] Laughing Cat - Deadline 20 August - Cash Monies Prize [Closed]
Hi There Sound-Inclined Creatives!
RetroEpic would like to propose a challenge for you.
We've been working closely with @mexicanopiumdog to create sounds for our upcoming mobile release, Ginjah. He's done absolutely fantastic work in that regard, but we've gotten stuck on one very, very important aspect of the sound for the game: Ginjah's laugh. This is where you come in!
We need a sound to fit this teaser for the game:
The sound clip might also be used as the end game sound, depending.
Ginjah is an adult male cat. He's a troll, but not the worst in the world. He's having a little fun messing up your memory matching game. You can read more about the game here: http://www.retroepic.com/our-games/ginjah/
In terms of references for sounds, two laughs we quite liked:
(first 4 seconds)
(Cheshire cat has the eccentricity/madness/sneakiness)
We will pay cash monies to a person who can make/fake/generate a laugh sound that we like enough to use in the game (amount still to be decided exactly)!
Who can enter?
This is primarily created for members of the MGSA community and South African musicians/ sound designers/ game developers. Feel free to join even if you are not.
Details
Please post your entry as a reply to this thread - this ensures that the whole competition is open :)
Final decision as to the winner is up to the RetroEpic team - we do reserve the right to choose no one, but we're really hoping that won't happen!
If you'd like more info, you can reply to this thread, DM me or email us at info[at]retroepic.com
PS: Am I allowed to title this Challenge #8?
RetroEpic would like to propose a challenge for you.
We've been working closely with @mexicanopiumdog to create sounds for our upcoming mobile release, Ginjah. He's done absolutely fantastic work in that regard, but we've gotten stuck on one very, very important aspect of the sound for the game: Ginjah's laugh. This is where you come in!
We need a sound to fit this teaser for the game:
The sound clip might also be used as the end game sound, depending.
Ginjah is an adult male cat. He's a troll, but not the worst in the world. He's having a little fun messing up your memory matching game. You can read more about the game here: http://www.retroepic.com/our-games/ginjah/
In terms of references for sounds, two laughs we quite liked:
(first 4 seconds) (Cheshire cat has the eccentricity/madness/sneakiness)We will pay cash monies to a person who can make/fake/generate a laugh sound that we like enough to use in the game (amount still to be decided exactly)!
Who can enter?
This is primarily created for members of the MGSA community and South African musicians/ sound designers/ game developers. Feel free to join even if you are not.
Details
Please post your entry as a reply to this thread - this ensures that the whole competition is open :)
Final decision as to the winner is up to the RetroEpic team - we do reserve the right to choose no one, but we're really hoping that won't happen!
If you'd like more info, you can reply to this thread, DM me or email us at info[at]retroepic.com
PS: Am I allowed to title this Challenge #8?
Comments
I did also chat to the committee before posting to check that this was okay and appropriate to try out. If it turns out to be a terrible idea, we all learnt something from that at least!
Finally, I was hoping it might be a little bit of fun. People are welcome to simply submit their own laugh, recorded, or a friend's laugh they thought was great.
I see this as continuing behind the video of the teaser, since it feels too long for a static laugh, but if that's not where you're heading, I'm happy to try something else. Think I scared the neighbours a bit recording this!
Oh. Umm, I'm not allowed to upload wav or mp3 files as attachments... so how can I submit?
OK, got it. Just put it on soundcloud.
@dammit As this is a competition with possible remuneration I would personally prefer it to be separate from the other sound challenges. So its a Retro-epic sound challenge, not sound challenge #8 :)
For anyone that is wanting to put the sound to the video (like me) I took the liberty of ripping it from youtube. Available here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29499659/Ginjah%20Teaser%202015%20%28720p%29.mp4
@dammit If that was not ok please let me know and I will remove the link asap.
Here are my entries... I did some pitchshifting to 4 basic laughs to see what the outcome was...worked kind nicely :D
Got some odds looks from my dogs whilst doing this, but that might have been the purring…
Purring is from FreeSound.org, CC License type 0 - http://freesound.org/people/cubilon/sounds/130968/
EDIT *29/07* - Some alternative takes:
https://soundcloud.com/aglinder/ginja-laugh-alt-01/s-fkONB
https://soundcloud.com/aglinder/ginja-laugh-alt-02/s-qMG69
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2KJZjOvCkNpajNYc1gzVklUaVE/view?usp=sharing
Let me know if this link doesn't work, haven't tried sharing video through Google Drive yet
Here's my submission. They are two slight variations on a theme.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kgd64kxcuf2d8x3/AACeSCWGO3lALrjR3DuEpioxa?dl=0
Kind regards.
PS: If you edit your post and add new versions after today, please notify me :D
1st attempt https://soundcloud.com/user-180811039/ginjah-laugh-1
2de attempt https://soundcloud.com/user-180811039/ginjah-laugh-2
3de attempt https://soundcloud.com/user-180811039/ginjah-laugh-3
Thanks to every single person that entered :)
(Please DM me your email address so we can get in touch about prize monies, final touch ups etc) :D