Toy Piano

18/01/2024

Here we were tasked with coming up with the music, sound design and audio post-production on a series of irreverent bumpers for E4 TV channel's movie slots. Maximum immaturity required as we miaowed and trumped our way to victory...

16/01/2024

As our very first client, we have a lot of fondness for the marvellous Nessy. We've worked closely with them for a number of years, providing sound for various animations and games that accompany their world-leading platform for dyslexia learning. Recently we've been helping them by producing songs for their YouTube channel: “Go Hairy”. This one is called “Syllable Smash”, and has been sung raucously in schools across the globe.

11/01/2024

💣🔥Bombastic anime action calls for equally high-octane sound. We provided the music edit, bespoke sound design and audio post-production for the animated trailer of this AAA video game from Ubisoft.

09/01/2024

Bespoke music, sound design and audio post-production on a series of four stunning 3D animated idents on Channel 4's "Milkshake" kids TV show, for Fisher Price's "Little People" range of toys.

03/01/2024

And so, we come to the end of our 5-part series of posts documenting the work we did on “Hammer & Bolter” – a landmark animated series from Games Workshop, telling untold stories from the Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar universes. Produced by the talented team over at Farside Features and Sun & Moon Animation.

It’s been a fantastic journey, one we will never forget, providing the music and audio post-production, along with fully bespoke sound design.

The following images are from: “Double or Nothing”, “Monsters” and “Undercity”. All episodes available on WarhammerTV.

25/12/2023

🎄 Happy Christmas! We hope you’re lying on a sofa, stuffed full of turkey, content and unable to move.

🔎 If so, why not check out the 2nd part of this year’s festive Warhammer animated short from Games Workshop, in which Red Gobbo solves the mystery of the stolen presents.

We worked alongside the same team that produced Hammer & Bolter, and provided bespoke sound design and audio post-production.

The hunt for the mystery Squigmas crook continues, but is Da Red Gobbo any closer to catching the culprit? Find out more: https://ow.ly/jYc150QaZbqFollow for...

22/12/2023

👋Have a great holiday everyone. If you get a chance, then please sit back and enjoy Part 1 of this year’s Christmas animated short from Games Workshop.

🎄A festive film noir detective tale from , featuring orks and gretchin. The plot thickens…

🔊🎚We were happy to provide bespoke sound design, as well as audio post-production.

Da Red Gobbo’s been stitched up like a turkey! Help him out for a chance to win some epic Warhammer prizes: https://ow.ly/pRKR50Q3RpiViewer discretion advise...

13/12/2023

Getting near the end now of our “Hammer & Bolter” posts. In this penultimate set of three episodes: “Plague Song”, “A New Life” and “Eternal” the brutal action continues across a variety of worlds in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, check these episodes out on WarhammerTV. We were pleased to be asked to create the music and audio post-production, and bespoke sound design for the series.

11/12/2023

An oldie, but a goodie. It was great fun to compose a jazzy Film Noir-style soundtrack, and design the sound on this highly amusing animated series “Maths Crimes” for the BBC.

08/12/2023

It’s not every day that you get to compose along to the silky tones of Stephen Fry. We provided bespoke music and sound design, as well as audio post-production for this hilarious animated short for the BBC. Another stonecold classic produced by the great folk over Sun & Moon Animation.

06/12/2023

Part 3 of our “Hammer & Bolter” post and in the episodes: “Kill Protocol”, “Cadia Stands” and “Artefacts” we see marauding Orks, Tyranids and Necrons causing mayhem. It was a pleasure to provide the sound on such a rich and diverse animated series. Check it out on WarhammerTV.

01/12/2023

🎄🎉🎁 We don’t believe in dangling Christmas baubles before the start of December. Now that it’s here, we are happy to sprinkle some festive cheer (well, heavy shootah fire and Ork battlewagon roar) as we did over this animated Christmas promo for Games Workshop. Music and audio post-production, and bespoke sound design. “Waaagh!”, as the Orks would say. 💣💥



Link in comments...

Waaagh! Da Goff Rocker iz turnin' it up to 11 and smashin' yer Silent Night. https://bit.ly/3DZHNf8Listen on Spotify, Apple Music and more: https://lnk.to/JH...

29/11/2023

🚀 It’s always a pleasure to work on something that is a force for good. Here we created a contemporary electronic score, sound effects and audio post-production for this thrilling futuristic racing video game which functions using the incredible EyeGaze communication platform, which allows people with limited mobility to control the game with the movement of their eyes alone.

27/11/2023

Another instalment of images from the next three episodes of Games Workshop’s hard-hitting animated series “Hammer & Bolter”, set in its Warhammer 40,000 universe, check out WarhammerTV for more. We were pleased to provide music and audio post-production, as well as fully bespoke sound design.

➡ Up next: “Fangs”, “A Question of Faith” and “In The Garden of Ghosts”.

24/11/2023

🕺💃 It's Black Friday, baby! We're not going to hose a load of cash on sample libraries this year. We're really not going to hose a load of cash on sample libraries this year. We're really, absolutely not going to hose a load of cash on sample libraries this year... Make it rain. 💸💰💰

22/11/2023

We got down and dirty with the sound on this trailer for Auroch Digital’s apocalyptic racing video game “Dark Future: Blood Red States”. Based on the famous Games Workshop franchise.

20/11/2023

🎁 Earlier this month we celebrated the birthday of Treg Brown (1899) one of the pioneers of sound effects and music for cartoons during the Golden Age of American animation.

🎯 Treg worked for Warner Bros' at , and it was his work and that of Jimmy MacDonald at , that provided many of the enduring sounds we still hear in animation today. 🤜🤛

🎵 As musicians themselves, they understood how sound and music work best when they are woven into each other by design, rather than just being created separately to serve their purposes. This is something we strive for at Toy Piano.

🎥 Check them out in the films below...