Apex Legends

Crypto's Heirloom

Heirlooms in Apex Legends are special melee weapons that are specific to each character. The character Crypto has a cybernetic expanding blade for his heirloom. I had the opportunity to collaborate with Andrew Kalmbach on this design.

At the beginning, Andrew & I recorded a lot of material and created a library together. From there I was responsible for the design of the blade expanding, the handling, the draws and many of the unique inspect animations. Andrew created the melee attacks, and I polished everything up at the end.

Legend Ability - Echo

Echo is the companion creature to the Legend 'Vantage'. Echo is a creature with unique functionality in Apex, and they can be as adorable and as they are vicious. With this in mind, the audio design needed to have enough range to communicate a wide range of emotions and gameplay cues.

To achieve this, I worked with Rachael Tarr and Eric LeBlanc to perform a variety of screeches, coos and purrs that I could fold into the design. With the help of these performers, we succeeded to make a design that enriches Echo's personality, and communicates their actions in-game.

Gravity Cannon

Gears is about empowering the player and having them face overwhelming dread and intensity. We can convey that with sound, but as a Strategy game we also have a lot of important information to get across.

Player and Enemy turns have distinct moods and approaches to the mix. Cinematic vs Strategic also have some difference to empower the player. Lastly, we deployed HDR in a few places to focus the mix and improve clarity where needed.

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Creatures - Spiders

I worked on a few creature design on Apex, including "Echo" - the companion creature to the Legend 'Vantage'.

Echo is a creature with unique functionality in Apex, and they can be as adorable and as they are vicious. As a result, the audio design needed to have enough range to communicate all the necessary emotions and gameplay cues. To achieve this, I worked with Rachael Tarr to perform a variety of screeches, coos and purrs that I could fold into the design. Along with performances from Eric Le Blanc, we succeeded to make a design that enriches Echo's personality, and communicates their actions in-game effectively.

For the Spiders, these creatures required less emotional range than Echo, however there was a more significant challenge in making their design effective - when in a group.