The Troll is completely a felt animation. Whether it is the elves, the Bognans, or the surrounding environment, it is the material texture of fiber art. The textures of the characters and scene surfaces are so finely detailed that even the texture of the felt and velvet is clear and realistic. This film can be regarded as a new exploration in animation technology.
Pixar's Dinosaur Master wants to explore the animation simulation of the real environment, which involves the simulation of various materials and textures at the same time, which is not small, and only a trend-setting animation team like Pixar dares to try it. DreamWorks put forward an idea or direction in the Trolls piece. If the simulation of the overall environment is not easy to achieve, why not simulate a specific material in order to achieve the effect of being fake. Through this film, everyone can see, and the results are excellent. The bright and brilliant colors and the fine and realistic wool texture will make the audience mistakenly believe that this is a stop-motion animation created by felt toys, and even some scenes in the film are deliberately created this illusion. Of course, the film is actually a CG animation.
Troll is the most typical children's animation that entertains and teaches children to discover happy things and learn how to make themselves happy through the simple behavior of the characters. This is a kind of innate optimism and a little idealistic life state, which is rich in childhood and gradually lost with age. Therefore, teenagers and adults watching this film may feel that it is too naive and too simple, but they can find the original source of happiness in the film.
The film sets up two opposing races. Trolls only know how to sing, dance, and hug every day. No matter what situation they are in, they can't forget these three things. It seems that they don't know what sorrow is and what pain is. The opposite is the Bognat tribe. In addition to the physique (just like Gulliver and Lilliputian), the main difference is that Bognat does not know how to be happy and how to be happy. In the tradition passed down from generation to generation, they eat elves. They get short-lived happiness. The appearance of elves is colorful, and Bo Nian is a dark color. An interesting setting is that once the elves understand the pain and are occupied by it, they will fade away and become as monotonous as Bo Nian. Therefore, the plot of the movie is easy to guess. The innocent elf meets the painful elf and helps Bo Yan to find the source of happiness. At the same time, the innocent elf is no longer extremely optimistic and the painful elf restores happiness. In the film, Bridge and Grayson of the Bogan clan also paid tribute to and spoofed the allusions of Cinderella, which were full of jokes.
This cartoon is more like a musical, like High School Musical. The singing and dancing elements in cartoons are originally Disney's conventions, and other animation studios are more or less influenced by it, but they are not as crazy as Disney. However, this time DreamWorks' animation has done a very good job in music implantation, and even the Guardians of the Golden Songs Collection did not reach the level of this film. The reason why the author feels like High School Musical is because the substitution of many songs in the plot is very appropriate, which promotes the development of the plot and the characterization of the characters, and even the transitions and narration are directly completed by singing and dancing.
Trolls sing and dance even if they don't eat or sleep, and they don't forget to sing and dance when they encounter disasters. This kind of spirit of death is not as good as dancing, only the dance of a disagreement in Asan Shen's film can match it. In fact, when watching this film, the author will have the illusion of watching a super long MV simulcast. Whether it's a cover of the song as it is or an interesting adaptation, it's just perfect. Watching this movie really shouldn't be sitting, but standing up and rocking to the music.
The magic elf is still a children's animation in the final analysis, and the felt doll texture may be made to evoke people's childhood memories of the ugly doll toys. When adults are indifferent to the plot and performances, it is still very enjoyable to listen to the golden songs.
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Text: Shige
, November 2016 1st of the month
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