Trolls World Tour, the Walt Dohrn-directed follow-up to 2016’s
Trolls, the filmmaking team embraced the challenge of creating not one but six colorful and completely original Trolls landscapes. They aspired to expand the world of the original film, especially in the lyrical and sonic landscape, so they created an entire map of lands based on musical genres. “We didn’t want to follow the same template,” says producer Gina Shay.
Each landscape was devoted to a different kind of music: techno, hard rock, classical, country, funk, and pop. Below, key members of the team talk Cartoon Brew through the visual references used to create the different worlds, touching on some of the creative and technical challenges that arose along the way.