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Creature Comforts, the interesting facts you didn’t know…

The things the animals say in creature comforts is unscripted and unrehearsed. This is part of their brilliance. The interviewees don’t even know which animal they are going to be until the show is broadcast.

Even though the people being recorded know it’s for creature comfort voices, the most important thing is that they sound like real people. There has to be honesty and a sense of real life in what they say. The creatures are animals who don’t think that they are animals so if somebody guesses which animal there voice is going to be used for, it could all go wrong.

After interviewing literally hundreds of people they have begun to learn what there looking for so they tend to target people who they think will be funny when a character is put to them. Then they blend their ideas with the people they interview and the result is magic.

Unlike any other animations, the characters are created to fit the chosen voices, not the other way round. The animators, artists and Golly (the director) listen to the recordings and create a mental image of what the character should look like to fit with the voice.

A large part of the fun is contrasting what the characters say with the look of the creature that’s actually mouthing the words. A good example of this is the cat and dog. They are best friends, however the dog hates cats and the cat hates dogs.

posted by Martin Crosbie @ 10:49 AM