Troll & the Oliver

Contractor Contractor Eagle Eye Filmproduktion
Format Format Animated Short (Teaser), 1 Minute
Credits Credits
Director: Jesper Møller
Storyboard & Animatic: Felix Zehender
Design: Thomas Hinke
Producers: Lilian Klages, Helge Forler
Disciplines Disciplines Pipeline, Modeling, Grooming, Rigging, Animation, Rendering
Software Software Python, Blender

When life hands you a friend, don’t eat him! Turns out Olivers don’t taste very nice after all, but fortunately Trolls like cake.

The teaser for Troll and the Oliver was my first project where I integrated Blender with the Kitsu API. I developed the studio pipeline from scratch for this production and contributed across various departments: I modeled and groomed Troll, rigged all animated assets, assisted with some animations, and managed rendering.

Shots

Animatic & Layout

We used Blender’s Grease Pencil to create a 2.5d animatic, defining cameras and spatial layout early in the process. I wrote additional tools to make this workflow more accessible for our 2D artist.

Animated Logo

I whipped up an animated version of the teaser’s logo.

Poster