Trolljegeren (The Troll Hunter)
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Hunting season is approaching. We hope you will be joining Filmkameratene hunting trolls in a couple of months. Gimpville has created the Jotne (Giant troll), which is a mountain troll reaching 80 meter above the snow covered landscape. Creating this troll has been one of our most challenging and fun tasks ever. We will soon attach a complete visual effects video breakdown to this article.
The Jotne is depicted in the image below.
"The CGI trolls are terrific, and often look like incredibly complicated animatronic suits, which is about the highest praise I can give to digital FX of this kind."
"A couple of them are also taller than you can fathom, and the effect of having the trolls interact with the human occasionally is nearly seamless."
aintitcool.com
"...None of this would work, mind you, were it not for incredible CG effects, and Ovredal never allows those effects from falling short of amazing..."
firstshowing.net
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