Jhin's VO is here!

"Red is a primary color"

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oh shit

Also in one quote he says good isn't enough, it needs to be perfect A few minutes later he says perfection isn't good enough Oh dear I think I've fallen in love with this guy

"I thought diamonds were a girl's best friend." - Taunt to

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"When they find you... they will cry."

That one actually scared me a little. Awesome VO and a great job to the voice actor and Riot.

It has a certain unnerving effect to it. It's full of passion, but crazy as hell.

Guys. Chill for a second.

He has some interaction with many Ionians, mostly about killing obviously.

then, he drops this:

"I remember your master. He was worth remembering"

...Yasuo?

He has exactly later on an interaction, presumably with Zed, that says "You were wrong to kill your master, I needed him for this performance", sooo

....Mr. Jefferson?

Your life had no value before me.

Art is worth the pain.

Beauty is pain.

I will make you FAMOUS!

You WILL perform!

How can we make this fresh?

Smiles everyone, smiles!

When they find you, they will cry.

Places everyone, places!

Sing for me!

There is NO drama is a peaceful death!

Start the music. I will make them dance.

Art must exist beyond reason.

They call me mad, all artists are mad.

I am misunderstood -beauty cant be evil.

I am PURE. My work is PURE.

Art should terrify.

I am a slave to this passion.

I swear every performance is the last, but I lie every time.

Smiles, and screams, I bring both.

The ecstasy of opening night!

A costume, some make up, a spray of blood...

I provide catharsis for my clients, and my victims.

I get nervous before every performance, but I need that feeling.

Mmm -the ecstasy of killing.

This would be easier, if blood came in more colors.

Yes, the gun is ironic.

I can't live without the euphoria of performance (laugh)

I really like that there is music playing in background each time.

HOLY SHIZELORDS

So.. from what I could grasp from the final sentences in his VO.. this guy have been imprisoned by the Order of Twilight (and probably tortured, hence his prothesises) and specifically by Shen's father (No wonder his VU/Rework came along :P).

Also, the Noxian invasion is canon now.

I feel. . . inspired.

It seems a lot of people are comparing Jhin to Sander Cohen, from Bioshock. However, I think his personality resembles Dr. Steinman as well, especially if you remember what Steinman yells at you before your fight.

"What can I do with this one, Aphrodite? She won't stay still! I want to make them beautiful, but they always turn out wrong! That one, too fat! This one, too tall! This one, too symmetrical! And now... what's this, goddess? An intruder! He's ugly, ugly, ugly... UGLY!"

Jesus Christ I think I need to clean my pants now.

Some additional notes posted by Riot Utora on Reddit:

Thanks everyone for the kind words re: Jhin’s VO! I’ve seen alot of questions and a few misconceptions so I thought I’d take some time to answer questions, clear up a few things, and provide you guys with some info about how we made the voice for this creeper!

First off - Jhin’s VO processing. Jhin has two different processing “recipies” for his VO kit. One for the lines only Jhin can hear (Move / Attack / Recall ) and the other for lines that everyone can hear (Spell Efforts, Taunts, Emotes, etc).

Only Jhin can hear the lines infused with the choir. The idea here is that this is how Jhin hears himself - the choir music plays in his demented mind. You’ll notice he has several lines referencing opera, the stage, performance, music, etc etc. The choir background was done to support all of this. So hopefully players after a few games playing as Jhin and then playing against him will understand he’s thinking to himself instead of actually speaking. The choir sounds come directly from the choir used in the promo teaser music as well as the upcoming login music.

All of the other lines - taunts, spell efforts, emotes - anything allies and enemies can hear - are all processed with a more standard “normal dude behind a mask” filter. This was done intentionally to create contrast between lines Jhin actually speaks vs lines Jhin thinks to himself - the thought here is that this will further solidify his sadistic and psychopathic mentality. There is actually one interaction with Jhin’s kit where an enemy champion will hear Jhin’s choir infused VO - i’ll leave that for you guys to discover.

The idea for the choir came very early on when EdtheConqueror (Kindred’s composer) and I had our first talk about Jhin. I asked “What are you thinking for his music?” Ed already knew and immediately replied “24 piece choir”. And that was that. That was the hook and I knew from that conversation that the choir was going to play a critical role in his SFX and VO package.

Like all Champ VO - it’s a group effort. Jhin’s writer Odin (Tahm Kench, Illaoi) wrote some incredible lines. Actually let's be honest - he wrote a bajillion lines because when we went to record - we didn’t have a complete kit from design and we had a tight deadline. So normally we’d write like 70-80 move lines and pick the best from that pool leaving us with 40-50 of the best lines. Odin wrote HUNDREDS so we could cover our bases when the kit was finally complete and then pick and chose what worked best. There are also lines for abilities that didn’t exist after we recorded them and lines written for abilities that were too long or just didn’t work. Now every champ has lines that are cut, but I think it’s safe to say that Jhin has the largest pool of unused lines and I’m wondering if we couldn’t do a director's cut type thing where we process them all out and just release all of them for fun. And obviously our voice actor nailed the character perfectly in every way.

While all of Jhin’s spoken lines are finished - I still have some fun non-verbal easter eggs in store for him that’ll I’ll be adding during his run on PBE. I really love watching people experience new champs on PBE because I can identify some cool places to implement these little polishing tweaks.

Now for some background on how the choir sound was achieved. Sorry if this gets too technical or too rambly - hopefully some of you will find this interesting.

The choir sound in the lines were achieved through an audio design process that has been around for awhile but this was my first time trying to use it. So this was very much a grand experiment for me - and it almost didn’t happen (for reasons we can maybe get into later.) The process involves Reverb and utilizing things called Impulse Responses (from here on out we’ll call them IRs). An IR is a recording of the reverberation caused by an acoustic space. So really what we’re talking about is a recording of how fast a sound travels across a space, how quickly it travels across a space, and how many times the sound bounces around, resonating across a space before finally diffusing, ending it’s reverberation. Think about the difference in reverberation if you were to clap your hands in your bedroom versus clapping your hands inside a cave or concert hall. The ringing out - or reverberation is immensely different.

Audio Designers nowadays have access to very, very powerful reverb applications where we can import our own IRs and “fake” a sound playing in any space we want. I can record the sound of myself clapping in my studio and then import the impulse response from Radio City Music Hall or the impulse response from the Sistine Chapel, making the recording of my hand clap sound like it was emitting from a particular location in those spaces.

Now for Jhin we did something a little weird and imported various processed clips of the choir music from the promo teaser and the upcoming login music as the IR. These are not typical IRs, they’re pieces of music. But hopefully you guys can hear how the choir kind of ebbs and flows and wraps and weaves around his dialogue. We’re not playing choir samples on top of his voice. It’s literally as if the sound of the choir is the space, and Jhin’s VO is being played inside of that space. Does that make sense?

Jhin has seven different choir IRs that yield vastly different effects. “And now...the curtain….rises”. This IR is a choir sample pitched waaaaaaay down to create that ominous dark atmosphere vibe. The other IRs sound, well, more like an actual choir. I think 70% or so of the lines use the same IR because it was just so good. The way the choir sound bends and wraps around the words change so much from line to line. It’s almost as if the choir is singing specifically to those exact words. It's difficult to explain - hopefully this makes sense.

Ok this is way too long - sorry guys. I hope you enjoy his VO as much as I enjoyed working on it.

Sander Cohen, is that you?

Ah! That Beatles reference at 14:16! Now I'm hyped.

lol "That hat is rediculous. XD Who let you wear that horrible thing?" best line in there

I think its all but confirmed that we finally have the mysterious C from Caitlyn's background. Listen to his voice lines in the last four minutes, he says things like, "Your father tried to censor me" and such. We totes got a Hannibal Lector scenario in the game now.

"There is no drama in a peaceful death!"

Oh my fucking god I love this. He's obsessed, he's insane, and oh my god this character...This is gonna be sweet.

Edit: "I love to perform, but hate crowds."

Stage fright?

I know it's appropriate for him but I was aggravated by the music accompanying his voice. It was quite aggravating. I am so, SO glad that others have a new champion to look forward to but I can guarantee you he will not be ever purposely bought by me.