Find out how it was possible for Miut to become the voice actor of the protagonist cat of “Flow”, an Oscar -winning animation 2025
Independent feature film, “Flow”, surpassed “Fun Mind 2”, “Memoir of a Snail”, “Wallace and Gomit: Vengeance Most Fowl” and “The Wild Robot” and won the category of Best Animation in the Oscar 2025, becoming the first animated plot of Latonia to be nominated and also to overcome the most prestigious award of the movie universe.
At the time, the director of history, GINTES ZILBALODISheld a speech where besides revealing being “moved by the warm reception” of the plot and claiming that he expects more independent animation filmmakers around the world to have the chance to take the stage to receive the prize in the future, also took the moment to thank.
Among the many obligations, who involved gratitude messages to the film distributor in the United States, Sideshow and Janus, and the free 3D software in which the animation was made, called Blender, the director thanked his pets: “Thanks to my cats and dogs.”
It turns out that the pets of the members involved in the creation of “Flow” also played great roles for the project to win shape. In case of Zilbalodisthe movie’s Golden Retrive was inspired by the filmmaker’s same breed dog, while the protagonist’s look and personality came from the cat Josephine and his son Oigars.
The voice of the main character of the animation, however, came from another pet: Miut, the pet cat GURWAL COïc-Gallasthe sound engineer of the feature film. The feline was presented through a behind -the -scenes video in which Gurwal He’s capturing her meters to insert in the movie; look:
It is worth mentioning that the process of following the pussy and capturing the sounds it emits was made with a lemure and a capybara. However, the rodent’s ‘voice’ was not used in the movie version, since Zilbalodis It states that the tone did not match the character, so they chose to use the sound of a camel puppy.
“Capybaras don’t talk much, so it was necessary to tickle 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,” wrote the director at X (former Twitter).
It is worth mentioning that “Flow” follows a black cat that had to give up its lonely nature to survive, after all, by losing its home in a flood, he found shelter aboard a boat full of other animals, who had to learn to overcome their differences and put altruism into practice so they could survive.
The story, had a budget well below the standard of major animation studios, as it cost $ 3.8 million (RS 22 million in the current price) to get ready. For comparison, Dreamworks Animation’s “Wild Robot” and distributed by Universal Pictures, had a budget of $ 78 million (about RS 455 million), while “Fun Mind 2”, from Disney and Pixar, detached $ 200 million (just over RS 1.17 billion).
The economy is merit not only of the sound capture of real animals, which pulled money with voice acting, but also of a lean team of 20 people, who occupied various functions in the plot, as an example, Zilbalodiswhich is co-writer in history, co-producer, production designer and co-composer of the soundtrack where he is also credited by production.
In addition, taking 5 and a half years to get ready, the film used an open source technology to animate the plot that has a simple look, but brings huge loyalty to animal behavior, which is the result of team research. “Our animators were paid to spend hours watching cat videos on the internet,” joked the director on social networks.
With a sensitive plot, the feature won other major awards, such as The Golden Globe, whose statuette became so important that it was exposed in a museum in Latvia, as well as Annie Award and the world’s most prestigious animation festival, Annecy, where the title won 4 categories.
“Flow” is playing in Brazilian theaters.
Source: Recreio
