He has 23 years experience in the game audio industry . He started in the game industry working as a composer/sound designer for Broderbund . He created sound design for '' Riven '' while working there and was later hired at Cyan to work on '' realMyst '' and '' Uru '' . Tim still performs session work regularly as a trumpet player as well as doing freelance sound design and composition outside Cyan . He created music and sound design for titles such as '' Middle-earth '' , '' The Incredibles '' , '' Pariah '' , '' The Lord of the Rings '' , and '' Prince of Persia '' . He won the Academy Award for sound design at the 75th Academy Awards for his work on the Sony Imageworks animated short film , '' The ChubbChubbs ! '' . In the 2000s , Larkin was hired by Valve Corporation and worked on a number of their games , including '' Team Fortress 2 '' , '' Portal '' , '' Portal 2 '' , '' Counter-Strike : Global Offensive '' , '' Dota 2 '' , and '' Artifact ''
75th Academy Awards
75th Academy Awards
Tim Larkin