Chance Thomas
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Biography
Chance Thomas is an American composer, author, and entrepreneur. As a composer, he creates original music for animation, video games, movies, television, and virtual reality. His music has underscored critical acclaim and commercial success, including an Oscar, an Emmy, and billions of dollars in sales worldwide.
Chance is best known for scoring video games like DOTA 2, The Lord of the Rings Online and James Cameronâs Avatar. He also scored Columbia Picturesâ The ChubbChubbs!, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and TV movie Lost Treasure Hunt, which was nominated for two Emmy Awards.
Chance is the author of the university textbook, Composing Music for Games: The Art, Technology and Business of Video Game Scoring. The book was released in 2016 by CRC Press, a Taylor and Francis Publishing imprint. As an entrepreneur, Chance founded HUGEsound in 1998 and sold it in 2016 to a large and diversified entertainment conglomerate, R Legacy Entertainment. He now serves as VP of Music and Creative Development for the new HUGEsound Post Production.
His projects have won major awards, including an Oscar, Emmy, IGN, Telly, Aurora and several G.A.N.G. awards. He is considered the father of game music Grammy eligibility and was honored in 2013 with the Game Audio Network Guild's Recognition Award.
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Albums
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- The Plodding Giant
- The Great Hall Of Kings (Album Version)
- Raptors!
- Survey the Terrain
- Frolic At Gnome Ann's Land Inn (Album Version)
- Quest For Glory V Overture (Album Version)
- Allosaurus Pod
- Greezy (Album Version)
- The Dance Of Mystery And Intrigue (Album Version)
- Dragon Fire (Album Version)
- A Brief Respite
- Dressing for Dinner
- First Light, First Conquest
- Enemy Territory
- Trex
- Dinosaur Strike Main Theme
- On the Move
- Predator Encounter
- The Hunt
- My Native Country
- Simarian Meanderings - Day And Night (Album Version)
- The Yearning
- Archosaurus Battle
- Epilogue
