About Florian Titus Ardelean

Sound designer | Vicious Sound LLC | Romania

Hey!

I’m a senior sound designer based in Bucharest, Romania, combining extensive linear media experience with AAA game audio expertise. Early work in linear audio built a versatile foundation, which evolved into full-cycle game sound design during the pandemic at Vicious Sound LLC, where I joined remotely as a fully embedded co-developer, shaping interactive audio for multiple high-profile AAA clients.

AAA Game Audio Experience:

– Fortnite, Lego Fortnite: Odyssey & Brick Life (Epic Games) – Designed and implemented weapons, cosmetics, emotes, and environmental audio in Unreal Engine and Blueprints.

– Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Kojima Productions) – Edited and synced foley and haptics for cinematics, enhancing player immersion and tactile feedback.

– Concord (Firewalk Studios) – Edited foley for cinematics in Pro Tools; edited raw foley sessions and implemented full locomotion foley sets in Wwise, ensuring consistency, realism, and integration with gameplay.

– Canceled AA Title (Square Enix) – Edited and integrated locomotion foley, english dialogue as well as localized dialogue for 5 languages, added subtitles for 7 languages.

Technical & Workflow Expertise

Engines & Middleware: Unreal Engine (Blueprints), Wwise

DAWs & Tools: Pro Tools, Reaper, Audition, iZotope RX, etc.

Source Control & Project Management: Perforce, SVN (including setting up and maintaining servers), JIRA, Confluence; organized audio libraries in Soundminer with UCS metadata.

Optimization: Troubleshot audio systems, managed memory budget, ensuring performance across multiple platforms

Collaboration & Leadership: Coordinated multi-timezone teams, acted as bridge between Europe team members and remote studios in US and Japan; mentored junior designers, and participated in review/mixing sessions via Evercast and Source Control.

​Passion & Growth: Passionate about games and interactive storytelling through audio; stay current with industry trends and emerging tools

Linear Media & Cinematics work experience:

Edited, pre-mixed, and re-recording mixed 40+ feature films, including festival-recognized titles (Chasing Rainbows, Quod Erat Demonstrandum, Toto and His Sisters, Collective, Doua Lozuri, The Great Controversy Between Good and Evil)

Re-recording mixed 100+ episodes of Romanian-dubbed HBO and Disney+ series, and the feature film Belle, the first Japanese anime feature distributed in Romanian cinemas.

Shipped 400+ hours of broadcasted media, maintaining strict quality standards.

Awards & Recognition:

Accolade Competition 2021: Award of Excellence & Award of Merit, The Great Controversy Between Good and Evil
Gopo Awards & Romanian Union of Filmmakers: Best Sound nominations (Quod Erat Demonstrandum, Chasing Rainbows)

Additional Skills:

– Field recording, boom operation, studio construction, acoustic measurement, and sound library curation (>1M files)
– Wired lavaliers and captured production sound for high-profile actors under challenging conditions
– Assistant/Associate Lecturer in Sound Design; authored The Bible of Getting a Job in Game Audio

Language proficiency:
Native English & Romanian; basic Spanish and German

Credits

Year	Project name	Client	Role
2012	Chasing Rainbows	Tandem Film	Sound Designer
2013	Quod erat demonstrandum	ICON Production	Sound Designer
2014	Toto si surorile lui	HBO Europe	Sound Editor
2016	Doua lozuri	Actoriedefilm.ro	Sound mixer, sound designer, re-recording mixer
2016	The Last Day	Green Film	Sound mixer, sound editor
2017	Hawaii	Actoriedefilm.ro	Sound Mixer
2019	The Poison Child	Teatrul Artedellanima	Sound Mixer
2019	Colectiv	ALEXANDER NANAU PRODUCTION	Sound Mixer
2022	Fortnite	Epic Games	Sound Designer (Vicious Sound LLC)
2023	Lego Fortnite: Odyssey	Epic Games	Sound Designer (Vicious Sound LLC)
2024	Lego Fortnite: Brick Life	Epic Games	Sound Designer (Vicious Sound LLC)
2024	Concord	Firewalk / Sony	Sound Designer (Vicious Sound LLC)
2025	Death Stranding 2: On The Beach	Kojima Productions / Sony	Haptics and Foley Editor for Cinematics (Vicious Sound)
2025	Rocket League	Psyonix / Epic Games	Sound Designer

More credits on IMDB

Awards

Year	Award	Awarded for
2013	Nominee – Best Sound – Gopos Awards	Si caii sunt verzi pe pereti (2012)
2015	Nominee – Best Sound – Gopos Award	Quod erat demonstrandum (2013)
2015	Nominee – Best Sound – Romanian Union of Filmmakers Award	Quod erat demonstrandum (2013)

Education

Year	School	Course
2009	National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale”	BA in Film Editing and Sound Design
2025	National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale”	MA in The Art of Film Sound
2025	National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale”	MA in Design for New Media