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Why Do Cats Hate Water?
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Editorial collage explainer · 49 seconds · English
A 49-second collage explainer: a tiger swims rivers while a house cat flees a bath, because desert-built fur turns heavy, cold and scentless when it is soaked.
- The brief
- “Why do cats hate water?”
- Style
- Editorial collage
- Length and frame
- 49 seconds · 16:9
- Made for
- Lessons and courses
How it was made.
The whole brief was the question, worded the way people search for it. The director picked the style itself. It opened on a contrast, a tiger crossing a river eight kilometres wide, then went back to the African wildcat.
The twist at the end: the same cat will happily pat a dripping tap. It cost $5.32 of model spend to make.
Every film on explain.film is made the same way: one sentence in, a storyboard you approve, then the director paints, voices, scores and animates it, and a critic model grades the cut before you see it.
Transcript
- A tiger will swim across a river eight kilometres wide.
- Your cat treats one bath like an ambush.
- The difference starts in the desert.
- House cats descend from the African wildcat, whose coat was built for dry sand, not rivers.
- Soaked, that fur turns heavy and cold, and a wet cat is a slow cat until it dries.
- Worse, soaking strips the scent it grooms into that coat, the invisible ID card that tells the world who it is.
- Yet the same cat will happily pat a dripping tap.
- So cats don't hate water.
- They hate being soaked, because for a cat, the coat is everything.
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