Summer Shot Discount
Chance Thomas

Avatar Postmortem Clinic

|    May 27, 2010

Movie tie-in games are a high stakes business. None had higher stakes this past year than James Cameron's Avatar. Scoring movie games is a high stakes business in and of itself, with unique artistic challenges, stratospheric expectations, and surprising hurdles to overcome. Composer Chance Thomas, a veteran of movie games (Avatar, Lord of the Rings, King Kong, X-Men, etc.) will carefully walk attendees through the Avatar experience - from auditioning for Cameron's team, to working with film composer James Horner, to composing and producing the massive 4.5 hour score in record time. All the highs and lows, the things you would expect and the things you wouldn't, and the key takeaway lessons everyone can apply to their own careers.

Chance Thomas composes and produces original music for blockbuster titles like AVATAR: THE GAME, Lord of the Rings Online, X-Men and King Kong. His projects are major award winners, including Oscar™, Emmy™, GANG™, Addy™, Telly™, Aurora™, IGN, SoundtrackNet and Gamer's Choice.

Chance was the first videogame composer to score an Academy Award™ winning film (The ChubbChubbs) and log more than 1 million mp3 downloads of his music (Lord of the Rings). He produced one of the first live orchestral scores in gaming (Quest for Glory V), and one of the first commercially successful game soundtracks (50,000+ units) in America.

In the late 1990's he led a successful movement which brought game music into the Grammy Awards™ for the first time ever. He also helped found the Game Audio Network Guild. He is widely regarded as one of the premier composers in the interactive entertainment industry. He also composes for film and television.

page: << < 1 2 > >>