DREAMWORKS
DIRECTORS
Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn
TEAM SIZE
25 (animators)
LOCATIONS
Glendale & Bangalore
WEB
www.dreamworks.com/trolls
DREAMWORKS SAID, ‘YOU DESIGN WHAT’S RIGHT FOR THE STORY AND FOR THE MOVIE, AND WE’LL FIGURE IT OUT’ Kendal Cronkhite, production designer, DreamWorks When DreamWorks bought the rights to the Trolls toy line, the decision slipped under the radar. Really? An animated feature based on 1960s dolls? But as The Lego Movie proved, this pitch can work, and with the team behind the hit Shrek series on board, why are we surprised it looks so good?
Production designer Kendal Cronkhite, a veteran of 20 years at DreamWorks, explains: “When we started, [director] Mike Mitchell and I were talking and he said, ‘We’ve got this doll, but let’s shock people and let’s make it…