Wing It!, scored
Published November 2026
A bouncy F-major cartoon score on clarinet, bassoon oom-pah, ukulele and pizzicato: a xylophone plink on every button, a soaring B-flat glide when the wings open, and one long chromatic fall into the crash. Scored on November 1, 2026 through the scoring studio, the same loop anyone gets: the film went in, the scored film came back 11 minutes later, and nothing was touched by hand.
What was asked
- The sound: Comedy.
- How much music: Balanced.
- If the film already has music: Replace it.
- Direction: “A cat and a dog fly the rocket they built from scrap: play every panic and pratfall, let the flight soar, and land the crash.”
Those are the studio's own controls, set as anyone would set them. The composer is free to depart from them when the picture asks for it, and says so when it does.
The composer's notes
What the studio's composer wrote back with the scored film, in its own words; only its closing offer of changes is left out.
The film is scored and on the picture: 90 s of music in three cues, delivered at −16 LUFS with a −1.4 dBTP true peak. The scored film, printmaster and music‑and‑effects stem are in the studio.
The film had no soundtrack at all. So there was no old music to replace and no dialogue to duck under. The score is its only sound, and I scored it almost wall to wall, the way a cartoon is scored, rather than at the 55% balanced coverage.
1M1 "Scrap Rocket" (0:00–0:44.8): the panics and pratfalls
- Launch: a woodblock tick and a climbing clarinet line carry the rocket past the moon. The bouncy F‑major theme starts in the cockpit: clarinet over bassoon oom‑pah, off‑beat ukulele, violin and cello pizzicato.
- Button: a sneaky bassoon tiptoe, then a xylophone plink on the press.
- Panic and tumble: chromatic pizzicato rises to the panic, which hits with slapstick, a dissonant xylophone chord and frantic clarinet. The tumble gets a ratchet and a falling xylophone run.
- Zero‑g: the dog floats on soft vibes and a lazy low clarinet, with a xylophone "ding‑ding" on the air freshener.
- Back into the chaos: the theme returns, with a dizzy clarinet whoop on the spin. A climbing build leads to a shrieking stab on the lever yank and a bassoon "blat" on the grimace.
- One approximation: the spin at 33.7 s couldn't share a tempo with the cuts around it. Its whoop lands about 70 ms early, which should still read as on the gag.
1M2 "Wings" (0:44.8–1:09.4): the flight soars
- The ukulele, woodblock and ratchet build as the wings crank open.
- The soaring theme opens out in B‑flat right on the wing deploy, with arco violins and cellos joining the clarinet, plus a vibe roll and triangle.
- There's a worried little E‑flat minor turn on the cat's face, then the full glide.
- It ends on a creaking bassoon tiptoe into the break‑up.
1M3 "Down We Go" (1:09.4–1:30): the crash
- The break‑up gets a clarinet shriek, a slapstick hit and a bassoon "uh‑oh".
- A whoop and a xylophone run mark the plunge.
- The whole drop is one slow chromatic fall in clarinet and bassoon, over tumbling pizzicato and ratchet, getting louder all the way down.
- The crash at 85.5 s lands on a downbeat with bass drum and cymbal, slapstick and the full band. After a beat of silence comes a sheepish sad‑trombone bassoon tag and a tiny ukulele button.
What I added and how it held up
- Instruments: your palette (clarinet, bassoon, ukulele, pizzicato, xylophone and vibes) plus small slapstick percussion. I also added arco strings for the glide and bass drum and cymbal for the crash.
- Renders: every part played its notes and none needed a re‑render.
- Overlap: 1M1's last 2 seconds ring under the start of 1M2. 1M3's tail runs about 2 s past the last frame and is cut at the film's end.
Who played
- 1M1: Clarinet, Bassoon, Ukulele, Violins pizz, Cellos pizz, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Woodblock, Slapstick, Ratchet.
- 1M2: Clarinet, Violins, Cellos, Bassoon, Ukulele, Vibraphone, Xylophone, Woodblock, Ratchet, Triangle.
- 1M3: Clarinet, Bassoon, Ukulele, Violins pizz, Xylophone, Woodblock, Slapstick, Ratchet, Bass Drum & Cymbal.
Every part is its own stem in the delivery, with the notes it played.
The delivery, measured
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Length | 1:30 |
| Integrated loudness | −16 LUFS (the web target) |
| True peak | −1.4 dBTP |
| Loudness range | 10.5 LU |
| Picture | copied untouched |
| Film in to scored film out | 11 minutes |
Score this film yourself
Open Wing It! in the studio as a sample, pick another sound or write your own direction, and get your own version back.
Open it in the studio →FAQ
Is Wing It! free to use?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0: use it, score it and share it, with the credit "© Blender Foundation, studio.blender.org/wing-it" and the licence named.
Was anything fixed by hand?
No. The film went through the scoring studio's own loop on the live service; the score, the mix and the delivery are what came back.
Can I score my own film this way?
Yes. Drop your cut into the scoring studio, pick a sound and how much music you want, add a line of direction, and you get the scored film, a printmaster, an M&E and every stem back.
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