Armory Creatures Contest Winner

The Armory Creatures Contest is a sound design competition ran by Paul Stoughton of Pengiun Grenade. Here we have a walkthrough of the winning entry by Michael Cheung as well as the entry itself. It's a superb example of sampling some very innocuous household items, and transforming them using sound design into a gargantuan monster from another planet. The contest had $1,500 in Prizes, for winners who designed original creature sounds using only their own recordings, supported by a walkthrough video. 

Here's the competition page on Penguin Grenade: https://www.paulstoughton.com/armory

And the winning entry itself:

Here are some timestamps from the walkthrough:

0:00 - Recordings 0:30 - Final Design 1:09 - Intro 5:20 - Source Recordings breakdown 5:40 - Balloon rub 8:30 - Pillow punch 9:16 - Rubber glove 10:12 - Slime 13:16 - Knife on Cardboard 15:00 - Plastic Pipe blow 15:50 - Door Creak 17:10 - Weird mouth sounds 18:10 - More mouth sounds 19:00 - Even more mouth sounds 20:55 - Tonal layer 21:43 - Shower squeak 22:28 - Fork scrape on pan 24:28 - "Designed" building blocks 27:30 - Final Design Session breakdown 28:01 - Intro 29:25 - Main Roar 30:42 - Closeup Breathing 31:34 - Final Roar

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