Making cartoons is magic. Especially when it comes to Flow, a stunning Latvian animated film that has already won a Golden Globe and is now aiming for an Oscar. And it's main feature is not only in it's visual beauty and philosophical plot, but also in it's sounds.
The entire cartoon is a story without words, where the main characters, animals, communicate exclusively with their own sounds. Yes, the dog says "woof", the cat says "meow", the sloth says "let's do it after the weekend".
Sounds simple? Not at all. For example, when it came to the capybara, the animators faced an unexpected problem: these animals turned out to be silent philosophers who did not want to participate in the film. Regular microphones and patient waiting did not give results — the capybara just sat and stared into space.
Then the team took radical measures: they started... tickling the animal! And it finally made a sound!
But then a new problem arose: the capybara turned out to be a hidden soprano, and it's thin squeak did not go with the measured and relaxed nature of the "chill" character. An unexpected solution was found: instead, the hero was voiced by... a baby camel. And ordinary camels did not appear in the cartoon at all!
These unexpected methods made it possible to create Flow, an animated work in which every detail sounds as natural as possible. And now, knowing this fact, rewatching the cartoon will become even more interesting. And for someone, we hope, this will be a reason to turn on the project for the first time.
