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Dillan SchmitzComposer & Sound DesignerKing Aurorus Music

Dillan Schmitz (A.K.A King Aurorus) is a Canadian award winning sound designer and award nominated composer working in video games, animation and film. He is currently based in Calgary, AB. His personal style blends timbres from electronic, retro, orchestral and world. He finds the greatest level of artistic expression when he's able to combine the best elements of these styles in a dynamic fashion. Dillans inspirations include composers such as Jeremy Soule - The Elder Scrolls, Koji Kondo - The Legend of Zelda, Nobuo Oematsu - Final Fantasy, Austin Wintory - Journey, Kenichi Tokoi - Sonic the Hedgehog and David Wise - Donkey Kong Country. Dillan has worked on a variety of video games and multi award winning films and animations where he has earned a variety of awards. He has also worked on projects ranging from vtuber collaborations to podcasts. Dillan was also nominated for Best EDM Recording at the 2022 YYCMA's. Dillan is a graduate from both the University of Calgary with a focus in classical music composition and also music for film, TV and video games from Berklee College of Music. Outside of his profession some of Dillans hobbies include video games, watching anime/cartoons, powerlifting, programming synthesizers, voice acting and streaming. Dillan is also heavily involved in his local game developers scene as a director of the non-profit organization the Calgary Game Developers Association.

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