Trolls Band Collectively Filmmakers Weren’t Afraid To Get Experimental With Their Musical Sequel [Exclusive Interview]

The result’s one of the best scene of the movie, one which performs with completely different artwork types, permitting the animators to flex their abilities — even when just for a second. It’s unlikely we’ll get a completely 2D “Trolls” film anytime quickly, but it surely nonetheless reveals that the studio is encouraging some experimentation. And “Trolls Band Collectively” nonetheless finds different locations to mess around with what 3D CG animation can do, significantly with regards to textures. Given the movie is impressed by actual dolls, there is a tactile feeling to the film and the completely different creatures and locations we meet. The largest instance of that is the Vacay Island; just like the identify implies, it is an island the place everyone seems to be all the time on trip.

“We had mentioned that for the Trip Islanders, their heads could be sort of like puppets,” head of character animation, Benjamin Willis, mentioned. “Their heads have been slightly bit extra stable, however their physique was made out of a water balloon and simply wrapped in a terrycloth-like seashore towel.” Certainly, the ultimate result’s like seeing characters out of “Sesame Road,” transferring with the restrictions of actual puppets.

Likewise, the villains of the movie, a brother-sister duo of evil pop stars, look straight out of a Fleischer brothers cartoon. “We received to strive a complete new animation model with them the place they moved slightly bit extra like rubber hose animation,” Dorhn mentioned.

This need to interrupt out of the mould culminates in a third-act chase sequence that’s in contrast to something the “Trolls” franchise has carried out till now. It has a way of scale and kineticism you would not essentially affiliate with the trilogy of jukebox musicals that’s largely about dancing and singing. Certainly, it was even a shock to director Walt Dorhn that the sequence received made in any respect. “We may do sort of a musical chase live performance comedy extravaganza and a rollercoaster trip. How can we do all these issues?” Dorhn mentioned. “We simply pitch it out, everybody will get excited, after which simply slowly however absolutely, we construct it step-by-step, from tough sketches into structure and the digital camera and our group’s constructing fashions, and it nonetheless blows my thoughts that we truly did it.”