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Capybaras and silent film actors have a lot in common. While pleasant to look at on screen, their voices were… made for silent films. The team behind Flow, a Latvian animated movie about animals surviving in a post-human world, made the same realization when trying to maintain realism when recording the animal cast, which consisted of a cat, a dog, a lemur, and a bird. “We used real animal voices in Flow. In most cases this wasn’t a problem, except for the capybara. Capybaras don’t speak that much, so it had to be tickled to make it say something, but the voice was very high-pitched and didn’t fit our chill, hippy like character,” director Gints Zilbalodis explained in a post. “We made a creative…
