Porgs may not taste like chicken — at leastaccording to the peoplewe talked to — but they sure do talk like them .
In an interview withD23 , sound designer Ren Klyce talk over how the team follow up with the voices for porgs , the cute alien skirt that live on Ahch - To with Luke Skywalker . Klyce said porgs were one of the first sounds they were assigned to bring forth , with director Rian Johnson saying he did n’t want their spokesperson to sound “ screechy , or irritating , or squawky . ” After try out with a couple dissimilar voices , the Eureka ! second happened after a visit to the local chicken coop .
“ At Skywalker Sound there ’s a poulet coop with these little chickens , and Coya Elliott , our first assistant , move down and recorded those chickens . And then we have that sound and slowed it down and stretched it out and found little chirp , ” Klyce said .
But after all that work , there were a few elements lose , so they added in hints of Columba and turkey calls to make it sound more foreign . The doves were thanks to a guy who releases them at weddings . However , the turkey call came from a far more surprising place — one of their interns .
Klyce also detailed how they came up with the sound design for the fathiers , the large floppy - eared beasts that were being used for races in Canto Bight . Turns out , they sound exactly how they look ( with a little bear thrown in ) .
“ When we first got the artwork for them , I think they kind of looked like goats , so we adjudicate to go record some stooge at a Capricorn farm , ” Klyce tell . “ There ’s a male person Capricorn in there that we record , then pitched the sound down and stretched it out : we call him Big Daddy . ”
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