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fights, but we did take into account that the film is primarily a comedy — that's more of a determining factor for us than the fact that the film is animated. There are generally moments of some peril, so we treated the swords like real lethal swords. We tried to keep it in the sound vocabulary of a live- action movie, avoiding the big broad sounds." POST: What about the environments the characters live in? KING: "We tried to make the spaces the characters inhabit feel real, and each has a unique feeling… cave-like, wet or dusty. There are a lot of locations in the film and we try to make each of those sound distinct. There is one in particular that is a fairy tale- type location where everything sounds a little different." POST: Was there one scene that was par- ticularly challenging? KING: "One really difficult sound was when the characters walk on clouds. You sink into the clouds, but there does appear to be some support there — like deep sand. Trying to find the sound for what clouds sounds like was an interesting and convoluted search. We tried shaving cream and flour, cloth, pil- lows, blankets, and eventually John Roesch, our Foley artist, manipulated some cloth and came up with something really good. "There is also a giant goose that appears as a central character in the film. She needed to have a vocabulary and a range of motion and expressions, from being a frightening monster to being a caring mother — there is a whole goose subplot in the film — so we recorded a lot of geese as well. Even though we manipulated the sounds quite a bit, it's very helpful to start with recordings that will give me the source material performed or executed in the way I need. If I start with that, continued on page 47 Cat sounds of all kinds were recorded for the film, including feral, house cats and cats in heat. DO MORE, FASTER. NVIDIA® QUADRO® 4000 FOR MAC If you're an artist, designer, or video professional with a Mac Pro, accelerate your entire workfl ow with the NVIDIA® Quadro® range of design, animation and video applications, Quadro 4000 for Mac allows you to do more, faster. To learn more go to www.pny.com/quadroformac © 2010 NVIDIA Corporation. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, Quadro are trademarks or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. All rights reserved. The PNY logo is a registered trademark of PNY Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2011 PNY Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. www.postmagazine.com 4000 for Mac graphics solution. Delivering excellent graphics performance across a broad Post • October 2011 17