I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.

The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize the vision.

The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.

If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.