You and the art Director Andrey Sikorsky – St. Petersburg, the series is shot in his hometown. That is, we can confidently say, “made in Petersburg”?
Dmitry Vysotsky: Yes, the St. Petersburg team, but it is a universal product, international and intercity, which is unlikely to have a purely St. Petersburg characteristics of raw alleys and courtyards with curbs.
Great team is the issue?
Dmitry Vysotsky: Pretty large team, and it almost did not change over these five years. In addition to the production part as in any animation pipeline, all divided into professions: writers, Director, artists, group entertainers, composers, actors, and articulate the role of children.
Wanting to voice fault, probably not?
Dmitry Vysotsky: Often a desire to have parents take my gifted child to name some of the cats. We can’t do this more often – in the air hear the voice of the hero has changed. Try to stay long. But there are other problems – the children grow up, your voice changes. In 5 years, and 12-13 years after all the child has a different voice. Or arise tonsillitis, sore throat, and voice changes. In General, we defined the time stick with one young actor, but after some time again hold auditions, and the children will have the chance to participate in our series.
Have on the series consultants? For example, child psychologists?
Dmitry Vysotsky: I Have experience talking with different psychologists and the feeling that they are absolute theorists and not a very good idea how to make a cartoon based on someone else’s experience, analyze what is already there, it does not give them the opportunity to analyze a new work. There are editors in the Studio “Metrafilms” on STS channel, these people know what language we should speak with children (our target audience – little children, preschoolers, from 2 to 7). I think that inner censor will not allow us to say something that should not be allowed in direct contact with the child.
There are foreign storyeditor (editors), they see our scenarios on the subject of the jokes and situations were clear at the international level that it hadn’t been a “small-town” history, not understood by other children around the world. This is an important point – the series is broadcast in 150 countries.
Cartoons now a lot, what’s the difference between your and others?
Dmitry Vysotsky: First of all, characters. We have a completely “sterile”, a perfect world where there are only cats. And it’s cat people. There are, however, birds, fishes, insects, but they are sort of creatures of a lower order than animals. The second difference: we try to tell children not Suzuka, on any topic, given ��when your inner censor. And third, our characters give voice to children, not adult actors. Now many do it, but when we started in 2015, it was brave. And again, we have a simple picture, convenient to use, and any kid, if you want, draw the kitten, the flower of our series.
where do the scripts?
Dmitry Vysotsky: we Have a brilliant writer Darina Schmidt (“mother of Boys”, artist and Director of the series “Luntik and his friends”), she comes up with ideas for our scripts, and then I and my colleagues fill their dialogues, we turn to the script, further to moving image.
Tested the new series on children and whether that the reaction of young viewers is not the same as expecting multiples?
Dmitry Vysotsky: a test that does not – it strongly would delay the production time, and we are in the “pipeline.” Series are tested after the airing. We and the producers can track the Network the number of likes, and there are focus groups who communicate with children in our environment. We are already on the record can understand, gets the joke where it is necessary or not. Children by recording his own role at the microphone, often reacting to it very directly.
Who of the three lions closer to you in character?
Dmitry Vysotsky: Train can say: the character of each cat is a part of my personality. Can’t even choose. Many people assume that I’m the cookie monster, and I see the traits and Mustard, and from his father from the other cats.
And you are a “cat person”? There is a house cat (cat)?
Dmitry Vysotsky: we Have a “cat person” with a giant experience – Andrew Sikorski. Thanks to his old passion to draw strange cats had the idea to make the film. And I’m a “dog person”. I have a dog Dunya, but she’s acting like a cat, so I can say to myself that I am a “cat person”.
When we see the new series?
Dmitry Vysotsky:We are constantly asked about it. There are 3 seasons of 52 episodes. Now finishing work on eight special extra episodes, they will be out in the period up to the new season. And look forward to beginning work on the next, fourth season.
Ask kids
Makar, 7 years old: Who and what will be the cookie monster, Jelly and Compote when you grow up?
Dmitry Vysotsky: perhaps the cookie monster will become a traveler like his grandfather, will link their fate with the sea. Caramel might be an actress or designer baby clothes as a mom. The compote is our most serious guy, focused on science, but the scope is not yet defined – he is fond of botany, space, reads a lot about animals.
Makar, 7 years old: could you do a series where all the characters grewand?
Dmitry Vysotsky: Hardly. If they grow, then again, young will not. Our heroes must remain as we love them all. We had the idea to make a series in which kittens would have fantasized on the subject.
Pauline, 5 years: How Honey can legs (!) to play the piano, so much so that while the flowers fall asleep?
Dmitry Vysotsky: the Question refers, apparently, to a series of “Interviews” where the kittens were writing news about your friends, there Honey really plays the piano – lullabies the colours and the flowers fall asleep. As in a fairy tale. The melodies are simple, so Friendly push one key and get a tune. Don’t need the masterly hands of the great pianist van Cliburn.
Pauline, 5 years: making the Compote whines all the time?
Dmitry Vysotsky: he has such a character, he doesn’t know how not to lose heart, cheerfully to meet the difficulties on his way, but he has such an optimistic brother and sister, that he ever learn not to whine. And then, not that he whines, he whimpers, this is a more lyrical character than the rest, too open, emotionally perceives trouble. Caramel may want to sonicate, but does not afford this.
Pauline, 5 years: what is the name mom and dad the kittens?
Dmitry Vysotsky: Mom – Kisulya so drawn to her Dad, and he Kotia.
Vasilisa, age 4: Dad makes the cakes and kittens often eat them. And mother makes clothes but they all go in the same. Why? She doesn’t have?
Dmitry Vysotsky: No, she’s a wonderful designer! I will say in its defense that the clothes they wear, made it. In some of the series we had a situation when she sewed kittens butterflies, invisibility cloaks, signal vests for Cycling and something else. We decided that the clothes in which appear the kittens, their favorite. If characters often change in the frame, they would lose their uniqueness. But we sometimes change clothes their. For a little while. For example, when they come to work to the father, and put on a special chef’s caps, or when flying into space, or travel to the vests to the open sea.
Eva, 7 years old: still Born kittens family cats?
Dmitry Vysotsky: This is a question for mom and dad.
Sam 6: is it Possible to add the cartoon hero of the octopus?
Dmitry Vysotsky: we Have some series are character-octopus. And now in production is a series, which will take place in the deep sea, there will be an octopus.
Gregory, 5 years: Like cookie monster, Caramel and Compote turns out not to quarrel?
Dmitry Vysotsky: Is a big mystery. They have a perfect family. Conflicts happen, but they manage to competently repay them – with the help of mutual love, support, humor, and etc.to uvati them to a critical mass.
Gregory, 5 years: Still the series about trekking and danger.
Dmitry Vysotsky: of Such series were several. For example, “Forest cats”, where the kittens went to summer camp where they learned how to survive in the wild, and “a Wild adventure”, where grandfather used to take kittens in the Park, were taught to produce their own food. They were with grandpa in the cave. Had a meeting with the bats. Perhaps there will be something else, a trip to the mountains, for example. There will be new adventures – if the audience want.
