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Scrat-tissime

SURPRISE WITH SCRAT

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00:00Scrat is like a really well-loved character.

00:21People really relate to his simple goal.

00:23You always know what he's thinking.

00:25He has these little utterances that completely connect with us.

00:30It's one of the things that makes him popular around the world, because it comes across completely without words.

00:40One of the things I love about Scrat, he's got a very simple mindset in the world.

00:46It's an acorn that he wants, and he is going to get himself into trouble every single time.

00:52His storyline, even though it seems so insignificant, he's often the inciting incident that gets us all into this big commotion.

01:07Scrat is able to just show pure yearning of frustration to get that nut.

01:12And I think everybody, I don't care what age you are, can relate to wanting something so bad and not getting it.

01:18Our job is to find new and inventive ways to punish a poor, made-up squirrel who never did anything to hurt any of us.

01:25There's two ways to look at Scrat.

01:30Either he never gets his way, and it's sort of sad what happens to him.

01:35But I think it's, what keeps Scrat interesting is he never gives up.

01:40And if you notice, in the Ice Age movies, he never ends up with an acorn, ever.

01:45I think you can learn a little from Scrat.

01:51If you've got an acorn, hang on to it.

01:55Scrat came along as a character inside the process of our making the first one.

02:00He was never written into a script.

02:02So when we went in to make it, there was a point where we just said,

02:06well, he should have a voice, he should be, you know, we need little squeaks and things.

02:10You know, he's not going to talk, but he's going to have these little sounds.

02:13So that's when I went in and just made little, like,

02:16little sounds for him while he was moving around.

02:21Little sounds for his footsteps.

02:25And that was the beginning of Scrat.

02:28If we want to show Scrat thinking, all he has to do is not move at all,

02:32and then just, like, twitch his nose.

02:34So we use Scrat's nose twitches, ear twitches, and, of course, his tail,

02:39which is always kind of flicking.

02:41Just through a simple flick of his ear, like,

02:44and, like, a little whimper, you know he's in over his head, we'll say.

02:48But if he's happy, everything's bright.

02:50The ears flick up, the tail's getting happy.

02:52You see his, like, his little chest, like, do-do-do-do-do.

02:57It all just has to do with projecting gestures and emotions

03:01from our human world onto this little animal.

03:05You know, surprise or terror.

03:11Chris Wedge has done every conceivable sound

03:14for Scrat's voice over the years.

03:16It's a very amazing talent he has.

03:23Look, I don't want to give you a scholarly dissertation

03:27on what makes the Scrat voice work

03:30because they're just little squeaks that I make.

03:34You know, I saw these twitchy little squirrels,

03:37like, sitting outside our window, just, you know,

03:40just really quickly moving from one pose to the next,

03:42and I just thought about the...

03:44Those little sounds that would go with it.

03:48That just made them.

03:49So it's like a little tiny sound

03:50that happens in the back of your throat.

03:52The best way to do it is to feel the pressure

03:59and anxiety of his situation.

04:01Everything about the Scrat is heightened.

04:03So just don't...

04:05It's that stuff.

04:10I don't know how Chris does it,

04:11because when you talk to him,

04:13you kind of think,

04:13how can those sounds come out of this guy?

04:15But when you see him in front of a mic

04:17and he's just going for it, it's so funny,

04:19and I feel like it almost hurts him to do it

04:21because he has to contort his voice so much

04:22to get those sounds.

04:23Oh, it's exhausting.

04:24I'm telling you what I go through.

04:26When I'm done with the Scrat,

04:28I usually have, like, all this tension.

04:30I feel like I did 100 push-ups

04:31when I'm done with a session

04:33because it's just all this little stuff.

04:36We got him to do a few new ones for this movie, too,

04:39because, you know, Scrat was underwater.

04:40Scrat had to be more joyous

04:42than we've ever seen him at the end of the movie,

04:44which we didn't have a large library

04:45for those kind of sounds

04:46because the Scrat's never been that happy.

04:48And so we brought Chris into the studio,

04:49and he went for that next gear

04:52in terms of pure joy

04:54as he's running around

04:55trying to grab every single nut

04:56that he can get his hands on.

05:03What you want to do,

05:05if you want to do the Scrat,

05:07is you just, you know,

05:08make your shoulders tight

05:10and you bring all your voice

05:12up into your throat

05:13and you just feel kind of nervous and tiny

05:16and you just go,

05:18you just make the tiniest little sounds

05:22you can make.

05:23That's the start.

05:25Frightened Scrat.

05:31That kind of stuff.

05:33Ecstatic Scrat is just,

05:35you know,

05:37their hoots and...

05:38that kind of stuff.

05:43He can growl too when he's mad.

05:53That's sad Scrat.

05:54I mean, sometimes there wouldn't be

05:55a sound at all,

05:57but just...

05:58that kind of thing.

06:02Happy Scrat is just more,

06:04like, there are squeals and yells.

06:05And he cherishes the thing.

06:11It's that kind of sound for happy Scrat.

06:13That's one of his happy sounds, I guess.

06:15Hyper Scrat?

06:16Well, Hyper Scrat is just a lot of Scrat sounds.

06:19It's once...

06:20That kind of stuff.

06:27Scrat's nonverbal voice

06:28is very important to Ice Age

06:30because some of the most emotional comedy

06:33is silent.

06:34Animation is best

06:36when as much of the information as possible

06:38is coming from

06:39what you see.

06:41It's something that

06:42all of us can understand.

06:44I have three kids,

06:45and each one of them,

06:46when they see him,

06:47they know exactly

06:48what he's thinking

06:49and what he's feeling

06:50and what he's trying to do.

06:51He doesn't need to talk

06:52for us to feel the connection with him.

06:54This is the best thing about animation,

06:56is when you can

06:57just create a performance from scratch.

07:00People get it,

07:00and I think that we've connected

07:02on a level that everyone relates to.

07:05That's the best part.

07:06Ha-ha-ha!

07:07Ha-ha!

07:08Ha-ha!

07:09...

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