Capybara with a camel voice? The secret behind the sounds of animals

Scheduled to debut in national theaters next Thursday, 20, “Flow”, has as its protagonist a black cat that sees the arrival of its days full of tranquility and solitude when the place where it lives is spread by water, causing them to He seeks a new shelter.

With everything he knows covered with water, the feline finds a home on a boat. The problem? It is that he will have to among the various survival challenges that await him, he will have to learn to live with other animals, as there are also sheltered a dog, a heron, a capybara and even a lemure.

The story, which thrills by showing different especies overcoming its differences, has no dialogue. However, there is a long time happening in the universe of “flow”, since besides the soundtrack composed of GINTES ZILBALODIS – Who also directs the fime – and Rihards Zalupethe animals gained voice in a somewhat interesting way.

The secret behind the voice of the animals in ‘Flow’

While traditional animations put humans to voice characters, as in “Zootopia” Monica Iozzi It is responsible for giving voice to Judy Hopps and Rodrigo Lombardi It appears as Nick Wild, in the Brazilian version, in “Flow” are animals that give the sounds of the pets seen on screen, as revealed by the director of the plot, GINTES ZILBALODIS through backstage publications of animation on social networks.

Starting with the protagonist kitten, the character had the sounds captured from Miut, the pet cat GURWAL COïc-Gallasthe sound engineer of the feature film; Check out the moment when the miut mews were captured:

Still, the look and personality of the kitten, which eventually got the name of flow after the success of the production, are inspired by the pets of Zilbadois: Josephine and her son Oigars, just as the Golden retract from the film, which are also inspired by the dog of the same breed of the director; look:

No X (former Twitter), Zilbadois He said that capturing the sounds of the characters was no problem, with exception of capybara, as it was necessary to use the sound of another animal to represent it: a camel.

“Capivaras don’t talk much, so it was necessary to do tickles to make her say something, but the voice was very acute and didn’t match our quiet and hippie character. We made a creative decision to offer the role to a camel baby,” he wrote the director.

On February 8, the filmmaker shared how it could have been the voice of the capybara if the capitated sound were the same as an animal of its kind.

“Our Gurwal sound designer just sent me a clip of the royal voice of capybara. I think we made the right choice to use a baby camel voice,” he said on the tweet.

Due to the techniques and plot, “Flow” competes for the Oscar categories: “Best Animation Movie” and “Best International Movie.” Will the plot win? The answer may be accompanied at the award ceremony, which will take place on March 2 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California, broadcast by TNT and streaming Max.