How is Splatoon's SQUID singing created?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2024
- In Splatoon, the Inkling (and Octoling) idol groups have a really distinctive, squid-like sound to their singing! But how was that Squid sound created? In this video, I'll show how Nintendo created this unique, squid-like style of singing in Splatoon!
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Famitsu interview with Squid Sisters VAs
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Nintendo - Fujii discussing writing Squid Sisters’ songs
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Famitsu - Fujii talks about writing lyrics
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Famitsu - Tsuji talks about the challenges of recording dialogue for Callie + Marie
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Famitsu - Overview of how in-game music is written
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Let me know which of the three new idols is your favourite! Personally I'm a Shiver fan, I think!
Shiver, or Big man, but probably Big man
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Plot twist: Nintendo actually figured out how to make a squid sing and just didn't tell anyone
best plot twist ever.
This is the first one of your comments i actually enjoyed
This is all just a very elaborate cover-up
no no this is canon
Lol
imagine getting ready to do something serious and you're just given a piece of paper with gibberish and told to sing it
"Sing it"
"What language is this"
"Sing. It."
Oddly enough, that happened to me once.
Hey, as long as I'm getting paid, a job is a job.
@@RedWoomy I’d like to hear this story
@@dataternater78 same, i'd like to hear it
Simlish (Sims), Animalese (Animal Crossing), and Inkling/Octoling language (Splatoon) are the holy trinity of the most weirdest and fascinating video games languages.
Funfact: inkling and octoling are considered different languages in the splatoon universe, and i believe inkling is usually written in kanji while octoling was in katakana (two different japanese "alphabets") i'm not too knowledgeable but something like that! (edit: this would technically explain marina's "accent")
True
Fun fact: Italian with an American accent sounds like simlish
Don’t forget Mario and Luigi speaking and Kirby
more made up languages i rlly enjoy is chaos language (nier) & hallowscript (hollow knight) ^_^
I'm surprised they didn't just drown the voice actors while they sung.
LMFAO I legit cracked up while reading this which normally I don’t do, takes some funny ass shit to get me to do that
Lol
Lol
Drowned in water or ink?
No way it's the real t homas budd
whats crazy to me is how the voice actors for pearl and marina actually resemble their characters. i wonder if that was a coincidence or not
Most likely just a coincidence, but a very funny one at that!
@@candycornshrimp THIS IS HOW WE DO by alice and lighter yes
th-cam.com/video/jo5nBGpYoh8/w-d-xo.html
@@candycornshrimp is there a video anywhere?
Alice looks nothing like Marina.
@@powerofthec5908 besides her skin? She totally does, taller, nice eyes, long hair, very stylish
To me off the hook sounds distinctivly more english as if it actually was
I think Alice Peralta once said they liked her for her western sounding voice
yeah
W pfp
yea, Off the Hook's music is based on modern american hip hop, rap and pop
nasty majesty was too english
I wonder if in editing the vocals someone said "that's sounds more like a dolphin, do it again."
Lol
And you mr telegram whatever won my dogs removed balls
“You sound like a sea turtle, try again”
And then they get shot
@@theboy2721 Squid Games x Splatoon
Considering the fact that the song is known as an Incantation (ink-antation in game) that can snap people out of hypnosis and seemingly magically stick around in listeners heads, it's really fitting that Mari identified it as a spell
Actually the mind control theory is all just fan theory territory!
No where in the original Japanese text does it state that the octolings and octarians were brainwashed,everyone just took it as fact because they liked it
@@LycanMOON alright, I looked up the Octoling goggles. There's no confirmation that all octolings wearing them are hypnotised, but the Calimari Inkantation is used in the final battles of both games to boost morale, be irresistibly danceable by even Octavio, and to essentially reorient Callie as loyal to Inkopolis after shooting off the shades.
@@lilpetz500 it also did something badass in 3
@@wolfwarrior1176 👀👀👀
@@lilpetz500 have you played 3?
They didn't use living squids to make the voices, extremely disappointed.
Same thing to west why they aren't hirings actual elf or orc or even goblin for their fictional game or movies
@@SeddyAm they don’t even hire actual demons to voice doom anymore
So they used dead ones I don't believe it
Nintendo is weaksauce for not returning to unit 731 tradition by combining squid and kid gnome to make real life squid kids for this project.
Lol
One thing I love about inklings and octolings voices is inklings sound much more angular while octolings sound more round in their voices
ooh yes!!! one of my fave bits of trivia is that octolings in canon speak a different language n when they speak inkling its noted that they have an accent and their sentences r sort of broken!!
@@xx_glittergutz_xx I think the Octolings’ inklish got better in Splatoon 3. Since they’re pretty aquatinted with Inklings, they probably learn from them too. Also if you scan the Octo amiibos in S2 they have broken Inklish, in S3 their Inklish is pretty much perfect. It’s a really cute detail
It's really interesting to hear about this from the perspective of the voice actors! I never thought about how wierd it would be to be given a page of gibberish and told so sing it
“Telegram him brooooo”
Emi Evans did a similar thing when she was singing for the Nier/Drakengard series though she was the one to make the language herself.
I always wanted to know how to make a kid sound like a squid
The effect is called Wawa
you're a kid you're a squid you're a kid you're a squid y
I actually knew this. But there was definitely a lot of other things like the squid sisters voice actors who I had no idea about. I did know Pearl and Marina’s voice actors however
You are in all splatoon comment sections.
You’re the Justin Y of Splatoon
Ok👍
In case you're curious, the inklings that you play as in-game are voiced by Splatoon's sound designer Yuki Tsuji.
fyi, the "Squid Sisters" aren't actually sisters, that's just the name chosen for their idol duo group. They're actually cousins, as revealed by the chat logs in Octo Expansion that is given to Agent 8 post-live texting.
it was actually revealed in Sunken Scroll 17 in Splatoon 1
Did you play the story mode on 1?
And "fun fact" is a lot less pretentious than "fyi"
It's been revealed in Splatoon 1. Marie even states that they're cousins in Splatoon 2's story mode
They still called the squid sisters though
I don't think anyone asked
I've been working on a Splatoon inspired album myself this year, and my approach to squidifying vocals were mainly a low pass & high pass filter, a rapidly automated sweeping EQ, tons of compression, a touch of ring modulation and some slight bitcrush, and a little more. Lots of fun experimenting with these kinds of sounds, there's probably dozens of approaches to achieve similar results! =D
Check out the squid vocals video from Scruffy...
I wanna hear it!!! It sounds so exciting!!
I would recommend trying out pitch shifting the formants in your voice.
Keep the same fundamental frequency but change the placement of the harmonics. It helps to give it a more fun character and will allow you to do different voices.
One good technique for squid voices is to pitch it up to get a bit of chipmunk.
Another thing you can do is shift up with one formant algorithm and then shift it back down with a different one.
Just be sure to use a plug-in that is only touching the harmonics while preserving the time parameters of the file. Most DAWs have a tool for that.
I feel like mentioning that the majority of vocaloids are NOT fully synthesized, they take sounds from singing from recordings of the voice actors which can then be rearranged, like a digital piano, the end product ends up sounding robotic but it’s still using recordings from real humans. I get the point you were making however
What I always found interesting was that Marina actually sounds like she is singing in english.
Seeing them dance while singing in the booth makes it really feel like they got the vibe of the idols and really embodied them
It's so cute to see the to Voice Actors enjoying their lives while recording, they really could count as the humanization of the Squid Sisters
4:27 I'm so obsessed with the game that I knew what song it was just from the gibberish
Calamari Inkantation
Imagine you go up for a singing audition and they tell you to sing a song in a goofy squid language
I always wanted to have my voice to sound like the Octo/Inklings but never could get it right due to the limitations of programs I had and the limited availability of tutorials (and tutorials that aren’t straight to the point, so there’s a lot of filler commentary)
same but i managed to do it with animal crossing characters voices, i sound like the lazy type villagers lol
@@spaixii WAIT not to derail the topic but that's so cool! did you just read out letters in like one or two inflections? i'm so curious
@@AkwaDoll i made up a random sentence then sounded out each letter, for example "hello" would be "huh eh luh luh ah" recorded it, and sped it up and made it a higher pitch
I managed to nail it using FL Studio Mobile, I think I might make a tutorial out of it if you wanna
@@noorhafizat please do ive been dying to find a tutorial for splatoon voclas
the idol themes in each game are completely unique, splat 1 is J-Pop, Splat2 is a mix of rap and EDM in an American style, and 3 is a mix of traditional Japanese, modern India, with a little bit of Brazilian festival
3:44 I think I know where Fujii's song demo went! A CD for the "Live in Makuhari" concert performance by the Squid Sisters has an extra song called City of Color (Shy-Ho-Shy Demo). This song was, in-universe, recorded "by the producer of the Squid Sisters." (Shy-Ho-Shy's real-world counterpart is very likely Shiho Fujii, both the "producers" for these songs.)
That would make sense!
I cannot express how badly I’ve been wanting a video on this! You did an amazing job explaining how this is done! Bravo :)
Thanks so much!! Really glad you enjoyed the video (it was really interesting to research!)
i think we do actually have the demo, it's called "Shy-Ho-Shy (City of Color Demo)" (Shy-Ho-Shy in the lore is the Squid Sisters' manager/composer, but the name is similar to shio fuji's)
i was thinking the exact same thing ! im not sure if the demo he talks about in the video is the same as the shy-ho-shy demo from the album, but if it is then its cool to know why it exists ^^ (besides lore reasons)
fun fact - the song is called shy ho shy because its sung BY shy ho shy, and then given to the squid sisters
@@georgie.513 I know, but thanks anyway
The music in Splatoon really sells the feel that the game has, from Japanese idols to Modern pop and lastly a mix of traditional Japanese/Samba/Indonesian (maybe?) They really sell the type of style splatoon games have
Fyre seems to be Indian, especially given her snake/eel charmer characterization in Hero Mode.
@@umbrellashotgunman True, it wasn't until I heard the instrument she was playing when I realised she was an eel charmer
I think it is crazy how the voice actors for pearl and marina actually resemble their characters idk if thats a coincidence or not.
This video makes me appreciate all of the singers/VAs even more.
9:32 I like how Inkling Girl said something like “I agree” in her muffled and speed upped voice line...
“She even sang while doing the dishes!” I feel attacked
finally been waiting how to do this voice for years
scruffy made a video on this 3 years ago
11:50 I find it uncanny that the VAs for pearl and marina really look alike their respective characters, so odd but funny to see
Characters design was probably influenced by them
love how the chosen singers were Katie and Mari and voicing Callie and Marie respectively
Looking back at Splatoon 1 clips makes me really appreciate how far Splatoon has come visually as well as audibly!
I find it funny how similar some lyrics sound to actual words sometimes, that there’s actually a TH-camr somewhere who primarily gives Splatoon songs lyrics based on their sounding
They hasn’t touched it in a while since they’ve pretty much touched a lot of Splatoon 1 and 2’s songs already, but they did say that when the opportunity arrises again for 3, they might continue on it.
I believe their name was Caitlyn Koi or something like that
Caitlin koi!
They actually did an iceberg on splatoon music recently
There’s many in the fandom who do those kind of lyric videos for fun
I'm glad you acknowlegded the existence of the lyrics. Not many people know of their existence.
I’ve always wondered how people can just make up a language
It seems difficult
Look up Conlangs!
It can be a bit difficult but it's not super hard.
I doubt it's actually making up a language, this is more about just some gibberish that sounds kinda like a language. Now, creating a fake language that people could actually communicate in, that's on a different level
@@sandorrclegane2307 There is an.entire Inklish written language you can even decipher
WELCOME TO THE ART OF CONLANGS
I cannot wait until we find out the voice actors for Deep Cut!
When I think of the Splatoon squids, I imagine them wity walled eyes yelling SQUEEEG! at the top of their voices and loading a gun with real bullets. Regardless, it's interesting how supprisingly complex Squidish is.
Gotta love how off the hook's VA's look like pearl and marina themselves.
3:21 deliberately avoiding french, nice
Splatoon music rly be representing that feeling you have when you listen to a banger song with foreign language
So does that mean you could revert it back to normal...? 🤔 I'm quite curious and would gladly take this challenge. Even MAKING Squid voices sound interesting
I've seen others comment on scruffy's squid voices video that trying to "undo" the squidification process would be impossible using only the processed audio files. It'd be like trying to piece together a complicatied equation when you only have the answer. But, I'm not an audio engineer, hobby or otherwise so 🤷♀️
@@supernovero I guess you're right
@@supernovero Yeah, the problem is that the audio processing actually destroys some of the sound information. There are theoretically an infinite number of sound files that, after processing, would produce the same final sound file, so trying to reverse engineer it from the final product is an impossible guessing game
@@chadscarborough7517 yeah, you'd have to write a whole algorithm to compensate for that lost information
I liked the detail about the voice actors / singers a lot, but the part where the voice effect is explained is pretty cut short imo. There are clearly more effects used to give that squid singing like format filters, distortion, probably some phasing etc. Would've loved a more detailed breakdown of that
It's weird how every idol so far coincidentally resembles their VA
2:39 your nonsense lyrics were sung so beautifully. Good job.
True art 🎶🎼
Love how Off The Hook's VAs even resemble the characters they voiced (mostly the hairstyles)!
I was literally wondering the other day how these squid vocals were created as I was playing through the final boss and credits of Splatoon 1, where the Squid Sisters sing 2 amazing songs.
Now I know, and it’s extremely interesting to me. Many thanks for the video!
Ooh, this is gonna be really dang interesting!
I kinda learned how to mimic Inklish on-command, essentially moving up my throat until I can make a Villager’s “Hrrrnnn” noise, and then gargling saliva with it. I actually did this to voice Futaba when me and the lads were playing through Persona 5 and my throat somehow survived.
Another cool thing is that the Inklings and Octoling have different voices, likely because of the accents required for Octarian language! There’s so much detail in this series, I can’t wait to hear how it’s all done!
2:20 I was just listening to the video and I could I have sworn you said “she INSULTED fellow employees to see what they thought” and had to go back to double check and then saw it said CONSULTED LMAO
“THOSE LYRICS ARE SHIT JIM? WHAT THE FUCK IS CHOREINO?”
Oh this was actually a really interesting topic, great job with the video!
We would love to have Japanese subtitles. I think Japanese Splatoon fans would be interested in the content of this video!
It's crazy to me how close to English some of the things they sing actually sound, while being a completely original language. It's Splatoon music that REALLY makes me wish Nintendo would release their games' songs online on TH-cam/Spotify/other
Wow, this is crazy! That question had been bugging me for a while, as I love to listen to Splatoon music from time to time, so I was very enthusiastic to find this video! One of my personal favorite songs from Splatoon is Seafoam Shanty.
Always glad to see the talented composers and musicians at Nintendo get some more recognition.
God I love Splatoon
yeah me too buddy
And i thought they just dunked their heads in water. 😂
Am I the only one who thinks the pictures of the voice actors together is just the most wholesome thing ever? 😄
Just in case anyone was curious, the two pages of song lyrics are of Calamari Inkantation (Squid Sisters) and Muck Warfare (Off the Hook) :)
Thank you, I would not have known that.
Good job uncovering how the voices of the inklings and octolings were made. When I listened to the soundtrack of Splatoon, I truly loved the vocals of some of the songs. So much that I felt like singing what felt like cephalopod gibberish, and enjoyed doing so. Given Shiho Fuji's strategy of wanting songs like these to get hooked onto people's minds, all things considered, I'd say it actually worked! Thanks to you, Tom, I got to know how the undulating tones of the voices (which is perhaps the part of the vocals that got me hooked in the first place) through the use of a pass-noise filter that changes back and forth rapidly, making human voices sound like they're underwater. And it felt surreal to see all this gibberish written down to read. I can just hear what the songs sound like by reading them. I'd say that all the work done by the singers/voice actors was brilliant, but we mustn't forget Yuki Tsuji, Splatoon's sound designer who provided the voice of all the playable common inklings and octolings.
Also, fun fact: the devs at nintendo also used this strategy of undulating tones in a previous game; you might not have even realized it. And that game is the Zelda title Majora's Mask on the N64. In this game, protagonist Link can use masks to transform into various creatures-- one of them being the Zora. This is where undulating tones are actually used-- Zora Link's yells are just regular Link's yells, but edited to sound underwater. Given what you said about how the main cast of Splatoon's voices were made, it is most likely that nintendo used this same trick for Zora Link in Majora's MASK.
I was just wondering about this literally yesterday. Thanks for making this! ^^
This was a great video, thank you for sharing. Love to see the names and faces to all the singers.
Excited to eventually see who our new idol voice actors all are.
6:35 Speaking from my own experience of teaching myself to sing A Red Apple Fell From The Sky, I feel for these girls.
same
8:25 For me it sounds like more glitchy in the beta version.
I'm glad that the music quality has been consistent throughout the whole franchise. I absolutely love the rock and roll remix of the splattack
Speaking about Deep Cut. I think Frye could very well have Pearls voice actress and Shiver has some Callie vibes in her voice and also a bit Marina like. I listened carefully and their voices sound similar to those 2/maybe 3 older Splatoon idols. So maybe they didn't recruit new people for Frye and Shivers part.
Also congrats team Rock. I was also on Team Rock lol
I don’t think so. Shiver has a *very* significant enka vibrato in the splatfest battle songs and some people noticed a South-Asian style of singing with Frye.
@@cometvaudin9496 I know that. I'm not talking about the singing style 'cause that one is a different style, I mean their voices sound familiar to Pearl and Callie in sound, not singing style
@@iris1568 I thought nobody noticed that, and even if they're singing in different styles, that doesn't means they can't be Pearl and Callie's VAs
@@Octalgari Exactly. Also Fryes enthusiastic talking in the news section when Deep Cut announces the stages just really has that same Pearl voice and energy
They are slightly similar but I'm pretty sure they are not the same person.
When I was in middle school back in splat 1 days, I somehow got the idea that the VAs put their heads in water for all the voice lines… 💀💀💀… I started telling my friends that like it was trivia 😭
3:33 MIKU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I always wondered how they sung it, I thought they were just really good voice actors.
9:08 he sounds kinda like Alastor from Hazbin Hotel, theres a little difference between those 2 voices of Alastor and his but yeah
Loved this vid! Such a rich lore and production with the Splatoon series. There’s a reason the directors always showed up in white coats 😂
the squid research team! The fact that they created fake scientists is the best part
I assumed it was random sound effects and digital synthetic music
But it’s actually more along the lines of like the sims
That’s neat
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THE VOICES. THANK YOU SO MUCH- THIS ACTUALLY HELPS A LOT
Fun fact: The voice of Marina, has her own TH-cam channel! You can find her here! ⬇️
th-cam.com/users/AlicePeralta
(11:49) they even look like off the hook...oh yeah huh
Some say the characters were inspired from their VA's and hiar styles
this is very well done. you are really selling that those two woman spend a lot of time, energy and dedication to a game. Their work is both a big part of the whole, but also just subtle world building: That what they did feels in universe without sticking out - this perfect seamless fit shows their skill.
Team Rock ftw!
The creation of these voices certainly seems more complex than what they do at studios when making the voice of say the smurfs, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and other fictional characters who have voices different sounding from most humans.
Quite interesting stuff indeed!
Bro team rock already won you can stop rubbing it in 😞
@@snusey3642 never 🪨🗿🪨🗿🪨🪨
Well I mean most of those voices aren’t modified. People can genuinely sound like that
I'm so slow. I had to hear "Callie and Marie" about a dozen times before I finally understood the "calamari" pun.
Oh my god. I'm slow too ig
omfg
Wow ..I mean., impressive but I knew that long before splat 3 was a thing
@@Starvaze I should add that I don't play Splatoon and had never heard of the duo before.
man watching this after playing the 3rd game you can tell the difference in the quality. I love this series
HALLELUJAHHHHH THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS THOMAS. You really make great videos and i remember watching the luigis mansion video when it came out! You've really improved from video to video and you make even the most boring topics sound interesting!!! Cant thank you enough
great video once again! i am SO excited for splatoon 3 😭😭
“By introducing undulating tones, I made the music reminiscent of the imaginary squid world”
*In short terms, she wrote banger music*
For anyone looking for Splatoon-esque music, the Japanese band Necry Talkie has a very similar visual and musical style to in-game bands like Wet Floor. Their album Zoo!! Is a must-have!
All the effort and love that goes into this game's music is awesome.
Splatoon music just makes me so unreasonably happy, I even pick up the game to listen to the final minute music. It's so good
Thomas I love ur videos! Thank sm for uploading keep up the great work
Thanks for checking out my videos!!! :)
2:07
Caitlin Koi: 😱😱
Your videos are incredible! Keep up the good work.
In the song Every Planet We Reach is Dead by Gorillaz they have the Splatoon singing style kind of. So if there's a behind-the-scenes on how that song was made then we can kind of know how they changed These Girls singing into the squid versions. The Splatoon singing style pops up specifically at 3:57 within Every Planet We Reach is Dead and ends at 4::29.
Very interesting video. I'm a big fan of the music in Splatoon, in fact I think it's actually one of the core elements of what makes the series so likable. A lot of stuff here I didn't know about. It's clear the composers of the game put a lot of thought and hard work into creating the unique world of music in these games. I wish more games had contextual music like this. Especially the final boss fights where you can actually see the idols performing the music in the background. Can't wait until Splatoon 3 (in one day as of this comment).
I can't wait for the concert in October It's going to be lit
Holy crap, this was an AWESOME video!! Honestly, this was so fascinating to watch, thank you for this!
Since 2018.
It was looking how The Squids sings has been changed my life
I love how Squid Sisters are awesome, But I loved some of the songs but people cried when they listened because of the notes and the melodic feelings that you will feel as you taste.
In May 2018 I followed the 4 actresses which interested me where those voices come from.
Great video 😁
Is Shiho Fujii the voice behind Shy-Ho-Shy then I wonder? (Shy-Ho-Shy is the Squid Sister's in universe producer and recorded a demo of City of Color, which sound very different from when the squid sisters sing it)
It’s actually really impressive and quite creative.
Another Banger Video Thomas! Great Stuff!
Wow i imagened how the singing was without the filter and it sound rlly good bit with the filter, yes it is like a squid
I saw Splatoon and Thomas on the notification and I instantly clicked on it
@Tommy 🅥 Shut up