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“Troll”
Troll is an interesting character.
He’s not an evil character.
Just an animal that lives in the forest.
He had a lot of previs.
There were certainly some changes.
For the most part, it lined up pretty well
with the original previs.
We knew in the previs that he had to smash
his arm in the water 3 times.
They were acting to something completely not
there unless it was a tennis ball on a stick.
We did a little bit of paint work and extra
water work so that when the troll is squishing
around, you’re seeing some of that mud.
The skin itself, we weren’t supposed to
have actual roots on the troll.
It was all flesh, and it was almost elephant
or rhinoceros type of a skin.
We wanted to make sure it felt like these
were different callouses that had developed.
And the way that those callouses would develop
would read as if it was more of a root or
a rock like structure.
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s fairest
of them all?”
It’s basically an entity coming out of the
mirror.
Materializing into a character.
When the Mirror Man is fully formed, one of
the challenges is making him interact with
Charlize.
Every time he talks, you will have a movement,
subtle shoulder movement.
We added some breathing, trying to make him
a bit more human.
Not just a statute.
We had on set a prop.
A silver kind of guide of shape.
Rough shape of the Mirror Man.
We embedded a head cam inside to capture Charlize’s
performance from the Mirror Man’s point
of view.
That was used after in the comp to project
a reflection inside the Mirror Man.
“Yet another kingdom falls to your glory”
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