During the cat protagonist from the Oscar-nominated animated film Flow get a much From (deserved) love – and will now get more Flow Streaming on Max – The film actually has a whole series of animals that together in the middle of rapid rapid waters on a tiny boat stabilizer. In addition to the cat, there is a grumpy Capybara, a curious lemur, an excessively friendly dog and a royal secretary bird. None of these animals was present in the original iteration of the film, a student film by director Gint's Zilbalodis, which was more about overcoming the cat. Zilbalodis said igamesnews that the film also did the central topic on the subject developed.
“I decided to visit this idea again and to make more about the relationship of the cat to other characters and other animals,” he says. “It was my first film in which I worked with a big team, and I wanted to tell a story about a figure that has to learn how to trust others and how to work together. And I thought the cat was a great character to convey it because we know that cats don't really work with others and that it would make this good character arch. “
Zilbalodis went through a few iterations to make the line -up exactly right. The dog, he said, was inspired by two dogs that he had had since the original short film. He added more Lemurs to the film to explain why primary lemur is so desperate after approval. However, one of the biggest changes came not only for thematic reasons, but also for more practical concerns.
“There Was A bird character in a short film, but I think that was a seagull, ”he said. “And it didn't really match this idea to the story for which I had imagined Flow. So I changed it to a secretary bird because it had to … the cat had to look at this bird at the beginning. It had to have this authority and presence. I saw that these secretary birds had that, and they are also very big. There are not many birds that could wear a cat. I'm not even sure whether a secretary bird could do that, but at least it makes more sense than a seagull. “
Despite the diverse animal cast – Capybaras, Lemurs, Secretary Birds, Oh my god! – The cat and the dog were still the most difficult to animate. Since people regularly interact with cats and dogs, an inaccurate movement or any inaccurate behavior would be far more obvious for the audience.
“With the lemur or the secretary bird that most people have not seen as much as cats and dogs, we can have a little more freedom,” said Zilbalodis. After a moment of thinking, however, he added: “Birds Are hard. The wings are really hard as they fold and the feathers work correctly. “
