PrayodiBA 517 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I think this deserves its own thread, I mean judging by the music in this newly released clip: (Don’t mind the atrocious animation quality, a huge stepdown from the previous, now that Blue Sky Studios is gone) Apprently , that “giddy” ,really Powell-like tune we heard in the sample is a theme for a character named Zee. https://m.soundcloud.com/batusener/ice-age-buck-wild-score-teaser-2 And boy, if he maintains a theme-anship like that, then I hope Sener’s path in Hollywood shines bright ( sadly though, it is because he emulates Powell really well, not because his own voice) Can’t wait for the ost, coming next Friday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,887 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Music sounds great. Animation looks like it's pre-vis. Horrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,042 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Bummer there's only 20 seconds or so of score in that minute long clip What we can hear sounds good And wow yea, really low-budge animation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,887 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Just under an hour I believe. That 8 min. battle cue looks promising Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,259 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Fun fact: in 2009, Ice Age 3 sold more tickets to the theaters here in my country than every movie released that year... Including Avatar. Yeah, those Ice Age movies were very popular here until Minions/Despicable Me took their crown. Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,042 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Why is the title of track 21 blanked out? Why did they use comic sans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,397 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Just now, Jay said: Why did they use comic sans for the front cover? Because that's not comic sans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,042 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Whatever font it is, it looks cheesy, in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Edmilson 7,259 Posted January 21, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2022 Maybe track 21's name is a spoiler? Buck Wild's Noble End mstrox, crumbs, Tom Guernsey and 1 other 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,042 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 BTW please link to the source of stuff like this It's from: https://www.facebook.com/batusener/posts/10158621217752825 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 964 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 On 20/01/2022 at 4:49 PM, PrayodiBA said: ( sadly though, it is because he emulates Powell really well, not because his own voice) I honestly don't care. We don't get anywhere near enough Powell these days. If we can get loyal replications of his style on top I'm happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jay 37,042 Posted January 21, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2022 I've always felt: Good music is good music. It's irrelevant to me who, or how many, wrote it crumbs, Kasey Kockroach and Yavar Moradi 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,272 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Good grief, that looks like it was rendered on a PS2. Such low quality textures and a weird shutter speed (like they didn't render motion blur or something??) But yeah, music sounds nice! Great to see Sener getting his chance in the spotlight. Clearly he's had a great tutelage under Powell, who in turn got some great tutelage under Williams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,259 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 At Film Music Reporter, track 21 is referred as: "Track title to be revealed on January 27 (5:45)". So yeah, it is a spoiler. Question is, who the fuck cares about spoilers for a low budget spin-off of Ice Age? 6-year-old children? crumbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,042 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Someone at FMR just used Sener's Facebook post as the source of the article, so he's just saying that we'll know the title on the 27th cause it'll be up on AU and NZ iTunes then But yes, Sener choosing to blank it out to begin with makes no sense at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSMefford 1,509 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 11 minutes ago, Edmilson said: Question is, who the fuck cares about spoilers for a low budget spin-off of Ice Age? 6-year-old children? They're trying to stop people from spoiling Spoiler when all the characters from past Ice Age films show up via multi-dimensional portals. Also that crazy squirrel saves the day. It's a really long cue title. Jurassic Shark and Edmilson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 23 hours ago, Edmilson said: Despicable Me You're not that bad. TSMefford 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,384 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Saw the first film years ago. It's still arguably the most famous title on David Newman's resume. But never saw the sequels, I think, nor any other spin-off (like this). I'm too old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 It's fun escapism. Same for the minions spin-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,384 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 I do watch some animated kiddie flicks these days, but they're mostly high profile ones (last year, I saw LUCA, RAYA, THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES....perhaps a couple more). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,423 Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a need to see. The best of this saga so far and one of the best animated ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,042 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Track 21 is called Possums' Independence https://music.apple.com/nz/album/the-ice-age-adventures-of-buck-wild-original/1605860246 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrayodiBA 517 Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 It's already on Spotify: Hearing it now, will share thoughts later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony 572 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 It's good! Sounds as though it could have been written by JP himself. Batu does a REALLY good job joining a whole bunch of themes together from Ice Age 2 & 3 without any abrupt, awkward sounding turns - the first track is a particularly good example. Very clever. His new theme for (presumably) the possums is particularly catchy. It might feel a bit incohesive if you aren't familiar with JP's original themes, but man, 16 years on (for some of them), they still work wonders. I need to give Ice Age 2 and 3 another listen - they are both great. I never got into 4, so I'll have to give that another chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 As far as I know, themes don't have expiration dates. Arrangements, on the other hand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony 572 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 True! I suppose what I mean is it's good to hear them in new arrangements still! Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WampaRat 1,105 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 One track in and already my mood has improved Well done Batu! LSH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 964 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 1 hour ago, WampaRat said: One track in and already my mood has improved Well done Batu! I think it’s great. As I said in the Now Playing thread, this was always going to a great opportunity for Sener to launch a solo career (bet Powell is 100% behind him too). There’s a good chance he’ll do well out of all this… and the best of luck to him! Edit: It’s even better that his first big solo project is one within a well-established franchise. Better than being thrown a studio movie that has been festering during Covid that nobody had any faith in. WampaRat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WampaRat 1,105 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 1 minute ago, LSH said: I think it’s great. As I said in the Now Playing thread, this was always going to a great opportunity for Sener to launch a solo career (bet Powell is 100% behind him too). There’s a good chance he’ll do well out of all this… and the best of luck to him! I will be most interested to hear his own musical voice as he goes along. He’s clearly VERY adept at sounding like his mentor. Although I can’t complain if he continues to sound like this.If we have a couple dozen zimmer clones in the industry, why can’t we have at least one Powell clone? 😜 Yavar Moradi and crumbs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 964 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Just now, WampaRat said: I will be most interested to hear his own musical voice as he goes along. He’s clearly VERY adept at sounding like his mentor. Although I can’t complain if he continues to sound like this.If we have a couple dozen zimmer clones in the industry, why can’t we have at least one Powell clone? 😜 Very good point. With Powell taking less projects (which, in itself, is a good thing… the quality has skyrocketed), I don’t really mind if Sener continues to imitate him. More Powell = happiness. It’ll merely be a bonus if Sener turns out to have his own singular voice. Hoping so. WampaRat and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony 572 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Man, the Zee theme is so catchy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,042 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 I really liked this! It reminded me of How To Train Your Dragon often, but not in a ripoff way at all. I've honestly never listened to any of Powell's Ice Age scores, so had no idea their sound was this close to Dragon's. I guess I'll have to check them out! Should I start with 2? Or 3 or 4? OST? Leak? WampaRat and Anthony 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WampaRat 1,105 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 @JayGo in order:) 2,3, and 4 Start with the OSTs I’d say. Number 2 I think is Powell’s strongest in the series. The finale starting with “The Boat and the Geysers” on to the end is terrific Powell scoring. Lots of that fun syncopated waltz-like rhythm. It’s been a while since I’ve listened to 3. I’d say it’s about the same level as two with a handful of fun new themes. The end credit suite was one i listened to frequently on that one. I think I’ve only listened to 4 twice. It’s a bit more frenetic. But still fun. Also, If you haven’t heard it, Mars Needs Moms is another great JP score that came after the first HTTYD. Maintains a great narrative and isn’t quite as “cartoony” sounding as some of his other animation scores if that appeals to you. Powell just has a blast and is full of such joy in these scores.I’ve been listening to Horton Hears a Who the last couple days and I’m just blown away by the sheer inventiveness of that score. Muad'Dib and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 2,833 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 It’s a shame the music has to accompany the low budget animation. I know Blue Sky Studios was shut down so another production company was used, but yeah, not great. WampaRat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,617 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Jay said: I really liked this! It reminded me of How To Train Your Dragon often, but not in a ripoff way at all. I've honestly never listened to any of Powell's Ice Age scores, so had no idea they sound was this close to Dragon's. I guess I'll have to check them out! Should I start with 2? Or 3 or 4? OST? Leak? I find that his Ice Age material (2 and 3 at least, I've never bothered to check out 4) is basically his same voice as HTTYD, just without the dramatic maturity that he developed by Dragons. I think Ice 3 is the best of those, with some cracking action towards the end. The album looks far longer than it is on casual inspection - it was split into 44 tracks to minimise the runtime of tracks containing choir (Powell confirmed in some interview he'd done that). WampaRat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WampaRat 1,105 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Richard Penna said: I find that his Ice Age material (2 and 3 at least, I've never bothered to check out 4) is basically his same voice as HTTYD, just without the dramatic maturity that he developed by Dragons. I think Ice 3 is the best of those, with some cracking action towards the end. The album looks far longer than it is on casual inspection - it was split into 44 tracks to minimise the runtime of tracks containing choir (Powell confirmed in some interview he'd done that). Oh wow! That’s why it’s oddly chopped up. It’s similar to Horton. There’s like 30 second tracks with choir. Those fees, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,887 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 I think Powell's Ice Age scores are all strong and a lot of fun. I don't see a lot of love for the 4th. Which I think is great. The action material in particular is terrific. Listen to Schism, Storm, Diversion, Pirating The Pirates & Land Bridge Trap. Those are some amazing sequences. And I love the big 'operatic' theme he uses for the momemt when the continentals are drifting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,617 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 17 hours ago, WampaRat said: Oh wow! That’s why it’s oddly chopped up. It’s similar to Horton. There’s like 30 second tracks with choir. Those fees, man. I found where it's mentioned: Referring to this video: WampaRat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PrayodiBA 517 Posted January 30, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2022 This is really a solid effort from Batu Sener, I mean anyone can imitate Powell's style (see Thomas Bergensen or Lorne Balfe), but no one can also adapt the "cohesiveness" or "finesse" that follows with it, not even his once closest associates such as Anthony Willis can do it (just hear his Dragon's Homecoming score). But Sener successfully did it and one can REALLY easily mistaken this for John Powell's score (albeit in the "mickey-mousing" vein of his Ice Age 4 or Rio 2 score). And the mixing, gosh, how I miss this kind of mix from John Powell's score, don't you agree? It's crispy clear. Not too crowded/noisy (<the problem with JP's current score, personally) Does it have something to do with smaller orchestra/orchestration? The highlight of the score is of course: Zee's Theme It has all of the EXACT characteristics of Powell's themes, or in fact, his better themes. First heard in this track: In its "See You Tomorrow/Building The Crate" moment: In triumphant mode: In calm mode: Smartly intertwining with Powell's Buck theme: Jay, WampaRat and Tom Guernsey 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,800 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 I'm a couple of tracks in and I'm loving what I hear. Ice Age 2 was my first real connection with a Powell score, so it holds a special place in my heart. I remember watching the film back in 2006 or so and I was hooked on the music. It sounded so fresh to my ears. So, this new score feels like revisiting an old friend. The orchestration sounds a bit smaller, just like in Ice Age 2, so it's a little nice extra touch that fills my heart with joy. Saw a bit of the film and it looked dreadful, so I'm sticking with the score only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stark 303 Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Excellent job by Sener, it’s like I’m listening to a new animated Powell score! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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