Designing the troll for Amazon’s Prime Video commercial, Don’t Let Streaming Make You a Grumpy Troll, was one of my favorite characters yet to date. Any time I get to design a big, hairy beast that looks like something that could have lumbered out of the Jim Henson Creature shop in the 80’s is always a blast. This troll went through a number of iterations, but the creatives finally settled on this guy. Legacy Effects knocked it out of the park on the build and puppeteering for the spot.
Here are some of the early designs:
