So this is what happens when two wild animals encounter each other. Soft Animals is an animated short made by filmmaker Renee Zhan. It's online to watch after showing at festivals 2021. Zhan's intro explains it all: "The film is about two people who bump into each other at a train station and all kinds of strange, unexpected, and powerful feelings bubble up to the surface. It's about the animal / body part of us which is boiling away underneath the awkward banality of small talk. I really wanted to capture that feeling... when you see someone and the rational brain side of you remember all the bad dumb shit, but the inside soft animal Body part of you is experiencing something completely different and just wants to cuddle up and go to sleep together." With the voices of Paul Panting & Joanna Ruiz, plus lots of weird sounds / creatures. // Continue Reading ›...
- 5/31/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Doing a wide range of voices for ad jingles, films and animations requires versatility, imagination and more than a little practice
The impish boy on the end of the phone line is superseded by a lisping little girl, before the boy's mother and then an elderly lady from somewhere up north take over. Just as an alien is clearing its throat, Joanna Ruiz reclaims the conversation.
Ruiz, 42, has supplied voices for a range of children's shows, including the Horrid Henry cartoons, and her more formal tones will be familiar to many who have endured computerised employee programmes on health and safety in the workplace. "I've just done one of those for Fife NHS on heart surgery about which I know nothing," she says. "Often I have no clue what I'm saying, but the trick is to sound as though I do, so I have to learn how to pronounce all these strange medical terms.
The impish boy on the end of the phone line is superseded by a lisping little girl, before the boy's mother and then an elderly lady from somewhere up north take over. Just as an alien is clearing its throat, Joanna Ruiz reclaims the conversation.
Ruiz, 42, has supplied voices for a range of children's shows, including the Horrid Henry cartoons, and her more formal tones will be familiar to many who have endured computerised employee programmes on health and safety in the workplace. "I've just done one of those for Fife NHS on heart surgery about which I know nothing," she says. "Often I have no clue what I'm saying, but the trick is to sound as though I do, so I have to learn how to pronounce all these strange medical terms.
- 5/14/2013
- by Anna Tims
- The Guardian - Film News
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