Music Composition & Cutscene Sound Design · BornMonkie · Released July 2026 · Steam / Xbox / Xbox Game Pass

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Music & Sound Design showreel - Yanni Ziangos

Music & Sound Design showreel - Yanni Ziangos

My work: original cutscene music and sound effects for five of the game's six animated cinematics.

The brief

Dodo Duckie is a puzzle-platformer where players switch between 2D and 3D to explore and rescue kidnapped chicken friends. Its animated storytelling called for expressive musical timing, humour and characterful sound effects.

The goal was to make music and sound effects follow the movement and emotion of the cutscenes, rather than simply play in the background.

What I delivered

• Original cinematic music: Themes and cues written to picture, highlighting character movement, comedy and narrative turns.
• Cutscene sound design: Expressive effects and Foley-style sounds for five of the six animated cutscenes.
• Audio synchronisation: Musical accents, effects and transitions matched to on-screen action, with attention to the balance between music and sound design.

Musical approach

I combined cartoon orchestration and light big-band influences. Woodwinds, strings, orchestral percussion and jazz-derived gestures create flexibility, allowing the score to move rapidly between playfulness, tension and emotional resolution.

The main compositional challenge was timing: allowing the music to respond to a gag or action while maintaining a coherent arc across the whole scene.

Additional audiovisual excerpts

• Cutscene music 1
• Cutscene music 2
• Cutscene music 3
• Cutscene music 4