Anime Trailer: The Ones NFT | by Only1

SFX, Foley and Score

Year:

2021

Role:

Sound Designer / Composer

Client:

Leon Lee, Only 1 (Hong Kong)

About

For this project I was involved as a sound designer of the anime trailer “The Ones NFT” for the company Only 1.

All sounds, including sfx, foley and score/music, were recorded and composed, except for the VO, which was recorded by other member hired by the company.

Process

The trailer has 3 distinct scenes or parts, which the music and sound effects need to follow.

A first one, in a forest like scenario, which called for the use of wind chimes (for trees/leaves dropping) and slight breeze sound, where the main character is working in a laptop, accompanied by electronic sounds and typing sounds.

The second part comes with the arrival of an “evil” character, with the sound of a high energy laser burst, which changes the mood completely. Sinister music enters, there’s a steady rise of energy sounds, leading to the delivery of “bad intentions” through the speech and change in music to a more darker feel.

The third sequence is characterized by a very brief silence followed by the main character leveling-up, with sounds from energy/waves, disrupting many elements surrounding her (leaves, small rocks, etc). A confident/battle theme music starts, signaling an epic confrontation between the two characters.

Designing sounds

Do you know that the sound of a thunder can be made with a thin sheet of tin foil? After recording that harsh sound, it is later processed using a guitar pedal to change the tone of the audio (couple of octaves bellow) and it starts to sound like a thunder, with a bit of editing.

In the instagram video, you can see an example of how some of the sounds were made, recorded, arranged and composed.

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Final Product

This anime trailer was part of a promo campaign by Only 1, NFT-Powered social platform built on solana, backed by Alameda Research. The trailer was published by Only1 at their twitter account (watch here) and later on Youtube.

One of the artists involved in this project used to animate for Toei Animation and was one of the animators for One Piece Anime and Dragon Ball Z.