About FullDomeFX and Troy McClellan

Troy has been involved in audio engineering and music production since the age of twelve. His interest in audio began while assisting his father during services at their church in Ohio. Around the age of seventeen, he began playing the piano and writing his own music. Soon after learning to play, Troy began recording his original music. Upon graduation from high school, Troy worked for grammy nominated musician Roger Hatfield at Music Cafe Recording in Warren, Ohio. He was able to learn the art of recording on a professional level while working in this capacity. Following his time with Roger, he began assisting musician and composer Gary Boggess from Musico Technolab. He refined his recording and musical composition skills while working with Gary on a myriad of projects.

Troy attended Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. He began composing music soundtracks for the Ward Beecher Planetarium at YSU, including “Serpents of the Sun”, which was later distributed to many other planetariums in Ohio. During this time he built his own recording studio. Troy was able to compose a variety of music and offered other services including CD recording, digital audio restoration, mastering, and full MIDI production. He also created music and sound effects for a video segment featured in an Apollo 11 anniversary show. Troy composed musical scores and created sound effects for planetariums while employed with Joe Hopkins Engineering. Works such as “Stars to Starfish”, “Trip Through Space”, “Midnight's Canvas”, and “Wings of Destiny” are currently running in many planetarium theaters across the country. Some of his most recent music was composed for Starlight Productions “Starlight Express” segments.

He has also created video, 3D models, and animations for Joe Hopkins Engineering and other companies including Creation Studios, Inc., Global Energy Solutions, Lost Films Productions, Sanborn Studios and others. His artwork has been displayed in many countries throughout the world including, but not limited to Australia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, Mexico, and South Korea. He has also created and produced a video demonstration of products including 3D animated models of cutting edge environmental technology that was presented at the United Nations in New York City. The current studio contains state of the art MIDI production equipment combined with a computer-based, digital recording medium offering complete music production, digital audio restoration and mastering services, compact disc mastering, and sound effects creation and design. Also incuded, is a variety of 3D visualization tools enabling the creation of animations for web, television and film; broadcast-quality video editing; and DVD title creation and mastering and of course, full dome planetarium content development.