Troll 2

When a dangerous new troll is awakened, unleashing devastation across Norway, beloved adventurers Nora (Ine Marie Wilmann), Andreas (Kim Falck), and Captain Kris (Mads Sjøgård Pettersen) are thrust into their most perilous mission yet. The Mill's

When a dangerous new troll is awakened, unleashing devastation across Norway, beloved adventurers Nora (Ine Marie Wilmann), Andreas (Kim Falck), and Captain Kris (Mads Sjøgård Pettersen) are thrust into their most perilous mission yet. The Mill team delivered 63 VFX shots, driven by 90 MPC contributors. The work featured a fully CG Troll with complex animation, CFX and lighting, alongside CG helicopters and large-scale explosion, snow, storm, and crowd simulations. To enhance the film’s photorealism and scale, The Mill artists also created detailed 3D environments that brought the world of Troll 2 to life and supported the director’s creative vision.

The Mill team also crafted key elements across the sequence, including helicopters at various stages of damage, digital doubles, detailed environments, atmospheric effects and the intricate one-shot featuring the Preppy Boy extraction (the party kid the troll grabs). The team rebuilt the ski station and the Stavkroa setting, reimagined the after-ski nightclub for the story and added crowds to bring scale and life to the opening moments and escape. Throughout the sequence, environments, animation and effects demanded precise coordination, from adapting drone-shot plates into full environments to shaping snow, debris and destruction that supported the tone of the film.