Chance Thomas Entry Into Hollywood Scores Oscar Winning Performance

Chance Thomas, the
award-winning composer most widely known for his innovative work in interactive
games, created the music for The ChubbChubbs!™
which has won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The Oscars were
presented at the 75^th Annual Academy Awards ceremony held at the
Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on Sunday, 23^rd March 2003.

Released by Columbia
Pictures, The ChubbChubbs!™
is the immensely popular CG animated short film developed and produced by Sony
Pictures’ Imageworks. Director Eric Armstrong accepted the award on behalf of
the team, which included veteran game impresario Chance Thomas.

Producer Jacquie Barnbrook
said, "Chance was an inspiration, always sharing his talent and generosity to
the collaborative spirit of this piece", while The
ChubbChubbs!™ sound designer Tim Larkin attested,
"Chance never ceases to amaze me with his composing." His first foray into
theatrical film, Chance’s music featured in The
ChubbChubbs!™ opened for the hit movies Men In
Black II and Stuart Little II on 10,000 theater
screens worldwide in the summer of 2002.

Thomas, who produced one of
the first live orchestral scores in an interactive game, Quest For Glory V:
Dragon Fire, is responsible for composing and producing all of the original
music for The ChubbChubbs!™.
The original orchestral score composed and orchestrated by Chance was performed
by the Utah Film Orchestra and mixed at Sony Pictures Sound in Culver City, CA.
The film also features remakes of the classic songs, "Respect" and "Why Can’t We
Be Friends?", which Chance produced as well.

"Obviously, I’m thrilled",
commented Thomas, "Having The ChubbChubbs!™
win the Oscar was HUGE, and the crowning finale to a memorable music scoring
experience." He added, "Conducting the Utah Film Orchestra was truly
exhilarating. They were well rehearsed, having recently played under John
Williams for the Olympics, and they performed superbly for me." Excerpts from
the score can be heard online at:


http://www.hugesound.com/AUDIOdemos.htm.

Chance, whose credits include
music production for Blizzard Entertainment’s Warcraft III theatrical
trailer, which opened nationwide for such films as Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers, is a winner of many accolades, having been honored by the Emmy
Awards, Aurora Awards, Addy Awards, Telly Awards, and the Vault Network Awards.
Other titles for which Chance has contributed a broad range of music services
include: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (EA), Earth & Beyond
(EA), Robota: Reign of Machines teaser (Doug Chiang Studios), The Lord
of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Vivendi-Universal), Unreal II
(Infogrames), Middle-Earth Online (Sierra Online), and the upcoming
titles The Hobbit (Vivendi-Universal), and Aridaen Gates (SierraTel
Entertainment).

He is a great promoter of game
music and for many Chance will always be linked to the Grammy Awards and his
winning game music Grammy campaign in the late 1990’s. Most recently he
presented at the "Does Melody Matter?" panel session held during the annual Game
Developers Conference in San Jose. Additional information is available online at
www.HUGEsound.com