Lego Animator

Of course it's not wrong! I once heard an interview with an accomplished composer who said he knew he had composed something too difficult if one of the members of the orchestra came up to him before a rehearsal/performance with a scowl on his face. You don't have to master an instrument to compose for it (ideally you will have some musical experience with at least one instrument, though).

I don't really like the glissando effects - I don't think they make the point very well. Otherwise, this could definitely work. A heavy percussion beat like this could get really old (at least for my taste) after a short time, but as long as you keep it short, it should be okay. I liked how you inserted a melody into the middle section, but kept it out of other sections - this makes a nice effect as well.

I thought about posting this in the Ambitious Works forum, but decided to start here instead, for two reasons: • There is simply no way I can provide a score for the music. I produced the soundtrack using GarageBand 2, which allows me to export sound files only. • I only have the soundtrack available in .m4a format. Anyway, here's the soundtrack: I composed this 33-minute, orchestral soundtrack for my Lego stop-motion film, The Space Police in Mission to Deimos. This is a very clean and family-friendly film, and hopefully that carries over into the music as well. Though the film itself has several months of work yet to be completed, the soundtrack is finished in its entirety. I suppose half the quality of a film score has to do with how well it fits the film - so I don't expect people to comment on that until the film is finished. However, I am eager to hear criticism on the soundtrack as it stands alone. Generally, in my opinion, a soundtrack does not fulfill its purpose if it doesn't sound beautiful on its own, no matter how well it fits the film. The score took over 17 months to produce. I had no previous composing experience or training, so I sort of composed out of the blue, with little knowledge of formal chord progressions and such. (I've listened to a lot of the big, epic soundtracks by John Williams, Randy Edelman, Miklos Rosza, and such, so I knew what good film music sounds like.) I used the Mac program GarageBand, with the Symphony Orchestra Jampack library. After I had all the notes down in the GarageBand staff, I took special care to add in expressions, accents, etc. to give the music more of a life-like feeling. You can read the more extensive official productions notes here. The main criticism I've received from other sources is my over-emphasis on the brass sections. I think I understand that now. The soundtrack is far from perfect, but I think it's a start. You can access a high-quality m4a version of the entire soundtrack at this page.