Computer Animation Festival

Speaker(s):
Walt Dohrn, DreamWorks Animation, United States of America
Kendal Cronkhite, DreamWorks Animation, United States of America

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Abstract: Director Walt Dohrn and Production Designer Kendal Cronkhite share insights and details on how they designed and produced Trolls World Tour, DreamWorks Animation’s hit animated musical comedy adventure sequel to their 2016 hit animated musical comedy adventure, Trolls.

Speaker(s) Bio:
Walt Dohrn, a Cal Arts alumnus, has been at DreamWorks for almost 20 years now. Not just a director, he’s a lyricist, and has voiced characters such as the Trolls Cloud Guy and Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After, a film on which he also served as Head of Story. One of the studio’s most trusted story experts, he was Head of Story on Peabody and Sherman and was part of the story team on Rise of the Guardians, Shrek the Third, Madagascar, Shark Tale, and Shrek 2. With Mike Mitchell, he also co-directed the studio’s 2016 hit animated musical comedy, Trolls.

Kendal Cronkhite, an Art Center College of Design alumna, is also a DreamWorks veteran, having joined the studio as an art director on its first computer animated feature, ANTZ. As production designer on Trolls and its hit sequel, Trolls World Tour, she was responsible for the look and visual continuity of two of the most colorful, beautiful, and uniquely visualized animated films in recent history. She’s also worked in VR and stop-motion, providing art direction on Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.

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