Chris Burgess
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Chris Burgess
- Position
- Cinematics Audio Mixer & Senior Sound Designer
- Department
- Audio
Chris Burgess was a Senior Sound Designer at ArenaNet since Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, and the Music Director for The Icebrood Saga.[1] He has a bachelor's degree in Electronic Production and Design from Berklee College of Music.
Jobs[edit]
ArenaNet[edit]
- Senior Sound Designer
- March 2019 – May 2022
- Cinematics Audio Mixer & Sound Designer
- May 2017 – March 2019
Work[edit]
Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire[edit]
- Sound Design for props, creatures, ambiences, VO processes, cinematics Foley recording and re-recording mixing, and implementation.
Living World Season 4[edit]
- Sound Design for props, creatures, ambiences, VO processes, cinematics Foley recording and re-recording mixing, and implementation.
- Music Coordination for cinematics and marketing materials.
- Helped define style guide and with stakeholders and communicated the product needs to composers directly.
- Managed composer deliverables, stakeholder reviews, and the iteration cycle with composers.
The Icebrood Saga[edit]
- Sound Design for props, creatures, ambiences, VO processes, cinematics foley recording and re-recording mixer, and implementer.
- Music Supervision
- Created the musical style guide based on conversations and requests from Narrative and Design to determine what the music would need to support for the release. This typically involved discussing and establishing the relevant themes, characters, locations, and tone of the release.
- Created standards and practices for naming convention, loudness standard, stem categories, and internal repository structures.
- Scoped minutes of music and implementation considerations needed to support the release.
- Established production/milestone calendar for composer deliverables.
- Facilitated all composer materials (documentation, video reference, etc) and composer deliverables.
- Music editing to generate additional shippable content with delivered stems.
- SFX outsourcing manager
- Leveraged QA to get in game captures of outsourced asset.
- Established production/milestone calendar for vendor deliverables.
- Facilitated all vendor materials (documentation, video reference, etc) and composer deliverables.
Notes[edit]
- He was featured on Guild Chat - Episode 63.
References[edit]
- ^ Video comments by Stan LePard, YouTube.com
- Stan LePard: Right. The music director asked for more stuff like what I did at the end of the trailer [referencing The Icebrood Saga Announce Trailer].
- Michram: I wonder who sets the direction for music for the Saga as you mentioned 'Music Director' - can You reveal who they are?
- Stan LePard: Chris Burgess.
