It was an old fairy tale for a new generation.
The princesses were the heroes.
Here? Are you sure?
Because I don't think I'm supposed to ... oh!
The handsome prince, the bad guy.
The heartthrob needed a stylist. The breakout star?
- Olaf? - I like to think it was this
- devilishly good-looking snowman. - Olaf!
And you'll be seeing more of us soon.
- Hey, guys! - In a brand new "Frozen" Adventure.
And guess who gets top billing
- this time? - Heads up!
- Yes, that's right ... yours truly. - There we go.
In my very own holiday short film event.
More on that coming up... but first, join me,
as we return to Arendelle.
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Before we spend the next hour together, I got to level with you.
I'm not really a snowman.
See the resemblance? No?
It's the mustache. Hi, folks.
My real name is Josh Gad and welcome to the legendary
- Walt Disney Animation Studios. - Nice, long sweeping lines
- around her face. - This is the place where Anna,
Elsa, Kristoff, and of course, Olaf, came to life.
- Fix her up. - It's also where more than
200 people are currently hard at work creating a brand new
chapter in the Arendelle storybook.
And guess what?
It's called "Olaf's Frozen Adventure." Nice, huh?
It will be ready for the holiday season in 2017.
And tonight, we're taking you exclusively behind the scenes
to find out more. And to reveal some never before
seen early artwork. But first, let's look back
at "Frozen" itself, and just why it meant so much to millions
- of people around the world. - "Frozen" was different from
the beginning. Down to its DNA, it's a Disney
film, but told for today's audiences and that was the key.
I was really, really proud of what it said about love
of family and choosing love over fears and being
- original and unique. - From the minute I read the script,
I knew that this was going to be a revolutionary story.
I didn't know it was going to be
- as huge and it was going to be. - I had no idea that it would
- be this kind of phenomenon. - And who could forget the
reaction posted online.
- "Frozen"! - "Frozen" hysteria was
everywhere. And after three years, it is
still the number one animated film of all time.
We really took the classic Disney fairy tale and kind of
flipped it on its head. I always called it kind of
- the anti-Disney princess movie. - I realized how I was a part
of something that would affect little girls and I guess be
- a really great example for them. - And it's not just little
- girls. - Yes, it's a movie for children,
but it's also a movie for adults as well, and
grandparents. Yes, it's a movie where the
central characters are two women, but boys also
- love it as well. - A lot of other movies you see
you're just waiting for the girl to meet the prince, and that's
the key to their life. News flash, that's not the case.
- At all. - It was that simple twist that
- struck a nerve. - It's really more about true love.
And true love is familial.
That theme also made it relatable and ultimately it is
- that love that saves the day. - Family was a big theme of the film,
but you're about to learn that family played a big role
off-screen, too. Firstly, there was the family
that made the film. All 600 of them.
I'm talking about the entire cast and crew, the actors,
producers, writers, directors, and of course the animators.
I'm in love with the animators.
They're the true heroes of this whole thing.
In creating a character in animation, two people are
- really vital. - I'm guessing you don't have
- much experience with heat. - The voice actor and the animator.
- When she throws the crown. - They together make the character.
This is so nice. Oh, I wish it could be like this
- all the time. - Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel.
What power do you have to stop this winter? To stop me?
They're amazing with what they brought to these characters.
There? Here? Oh, are you sure because I don't
- think I'm supposed to ... oh! - Kristen brought this
- wonderful, goofy, real ... - Hi, me?
... girl character that people can relate to because, she has
her faults and everybody does, so it really makes the character
- come to life and become believable. - Whoa! Hey!
I did look at Kristen's recording sessions and what I got
from it was just some of the goofy things she'd do.
- I mean you look beautifuler. - Just by watching her expressions.
I kept pushing for her to be quirkier and goofier
because that's how I felt as
- a kid growing up. - I'm awkward, you're gorgeous.
- Wait, what? - I sort of embraced having a
not-so-standard princess personality.
- I'm completely ordinary! - I really wanted to make Anna
just, different. And I wanted her to be a role
model for little girls who were like me.
- You look beautiful. - It's a pretty cool power
- to be Princess Anna. - I love that she's a real girl.
She wakes up with messy hair,
- with hair in her mouth. - Yeah?
You're always recorded so you can come to work in
your pajamas but someone is going to view that tape.
So you have two cameras on you at all times to catch like
itsy-bitsy imperceptible movements of your face,
of your eyebrows, where you use your hands.
It adds so much dimension to these characters.
- What? No! No, no, no, no. - Idina also brought this
- wonderful vulnerability to Elsa. - When I was a kid, I had this
voice and so I would hide it all the time.
So I completely related to this character.
But when Idina started singing ...
♪ ...the past is in the past! ♪
You could see the power come out of her. It was, it was amazing.
Idina worked with animators to make Elsa's singing
- feel realistic. - They want to know how I sing, really.
What do I do when I breathe?
She talked about how when, when singing, you use
your diaphragm. It's very subtle.
That's what this control does right here, so you can kind of
get the sense that she's actually breathing.
You know, it's a puppet, it's not real, but you want
to make sure that it feels like she's taking in oxygen
- and she's breathing. - Idina talked to them, they
added it and it just like, bink!
It just, all of a sudden, she, she seemed more real.
The writers, animators, and actors
worked together to find the voice of each character.
- It's a palace made of ice. - And sometimes the odd
- reindeer, too. - It felt psychotic to be
talking as Kristoff and then also as Sven.
♪ Let's call it a night ♪ ♪ good night ♪
I think Sven would probably say to Kristoff: "Kristoff, why are you
trying to be such a tough guy? You know you're in love with Anna."
And then Kristoff would be like... "No, I'm not in love with Anna.
What are you talking about?" You know, just sort of that back
and forth makes you feel... like a crazy person,
but it's so much fun.
And then, there was this guy.
Yeah, that's so funny, I don't have a skull ... or bones.
- Olaf is an animator's dream. - I really like this guy.
I mean here's a character that you can pull apart ...
- Man, am I out of shape! - Put back together in
different forms. There's a lot we could do with him.
- There we go. - Olaf's not Olaf without Josh Gad.
- Yes! - Yellow ... no, not yellow.
Yellow and snow ... brrr. No go.
Josh would go into that recording booth and just put
himself into it. And just the little movements
and his, especially his facial expressions were,
- were very helpful. - Olaf is the culmination of
not just my own vocal choices.
Are you listening? Because this guy sounds smart.
But hundreds of people who have pitched on ideas,
who have taken pen to pad or finger to keyboard
and have created this lovable, wonderfully fun,
wonderfully whimsical,
wonderfully naive character.
I can't read! Or spell.
The directors and myself, we talk to the animators
in terms of emotion. It's like you look at those
- faces and that character is alive. - Elsa!
It's been under wraps until now.
Coming up, we unveil "Olaf's Frozen Adventure."
♪ For the first time in forever I finally understand ♪
- # For the first time in forever # - Family comes up a lot when
you're talking about "Frozen."
But one thing you may not realize is just how personal
the making of this movie really was, for almost everyone
- who worked on it. - # 'Cause for the first time in forever #
♪ I will be right here ♪
Like, did you know that the songwriters are actually
a husband and wife team and that young princess Anna
- is sung by their daughter? - Elsa?
♪ Do you want to build a snowman? ♪
♪ It doesn't have to be a snowman ♪
Bobby and Kristen's daughter Katie did the scratch voice for
the little Anna, and my daughter did the scratch voice
- for the 9-year-old Anna. - # Do you want build a snowman #
We started saying what we
really want is the authenticity. These are authentic kids.
Then there was this, a sweet vulnerability and naivete and
this just purity and we wanted to capture that.
♪ It gets a little lonely all these empty rooms ♪
♪ just watching the hours tick by! ♪
For the younger versions of Anna and Elsa, the animators
also found inspiration from their own family.
My daughters, some of the scenes with Anna and Elsa in the
beginning of the movie, they acted some of those
- scenes out for me. - Like everyone else, Olaf's
lead animator found inspiration close to home.
- Say hi, Tim. - Hi, Tim!
I actually look to my little boy Timmy at home to try and
look at his little mannerisms and the things that he did
to animate Olaf. And, and it led to things like
you know, really keeping him light.
He hops a lot. We really tried to keep him in a childlike
- feel to his character. - And, yup, same thing for me, too.
I sort of watched my own daughter,
who is this little kind of embodiment of this
lovable snowman. And, you know, her experiences
and her journey and her sort of wonderment informed, and
continues to inform, a lot of the decisions that I make.
Our kids inspired these characters a lot and then to
have them in playing parts in it, it just comes full circle.
But our kids aren't just inspirations, they're also fans.
My 5-year-old thinks it's incredibly cool that I'm Olaf.
My 2-year-old got into a fight
with my 5-year-old the other day because "Frozen" was on
and my oldest daughter Ava said, "That's daddy."
And my 2-year-old said, "No, that's Olaf."
And my 5-year-old's like, "No, that's dada."
And the 2-year-old's like "No, It's Olaf, it's Olaf!"
She wanted nothing to do with "that's dada."
That was a snowman. He happens to sound
like her father, but it's not her father,
'cause her father's standing in the next room,
and it can't be her father unless dark sorcery is being used.
- You going? - I'm going.
And inspiration didn't only come from our children.
John Lasseter being an animator, he had done this
really funny thing imitating Olaf.
We were trying to describe it to the animators and we couldn't
get it so we caught him in the hallway
and we were like, just do it! Just do it!
It's that moment where Olaf does the, "he's crazy!"
He's crazy! They're just rocks.
I'll distract him while you run! Hi, Sven's family!
- Hi! - That's pretty much what you
- see on the screen. - Yeah. So a lot of, for us,
the memories are them, the people we worked with,
acting them out in front of us and goofing off or,
or, so it's a lot of all their personalities.
- And we did have fun. - Yeah.
And here's something else. Take a look at these early sketches.
At first... Anna and Elsa weren't even sisters.
Anna was a peasant who journeyed to ask the ice queen Elsa
to freeze her broken heart. But it just didn't feel right.
The issue that kept coming up is, what, what do Anna and Elsa
have to do with each other? Why does that matter?
And how could it matter more? And someone in the room said,
- "what if they were sisters?" - We don't even know who came up
with the idea and no one, no one wants to claim it.
I don't know why, because it's a great idea.
- But everything started to click. - And once again, it all hit
- very close to home. - Elsa! Psst!
I adored my sisters when I was growing up.
- Elsa! - And I could definitely relate to wanting
to be closer to them than they wanted to be to me,
- when I was the little runt. - Hi.
- Hi, hi, me? - You look beautiful.
- Thank you. - I mean, you look beautifuler.
I mean not fuller ... you don't look fuller.
- But more, more beautiful. - Thank you.
It's a pretty monumental moment when your older sister ...
I know this because I have two older sisters ... gives you an
adult compliment and says you look beautiful.
I wish it could be like this all the time.
Me too... but it can't.
I think with "Frozen," it's always about family
- and how family interact. - And so it was no surprise
that when "Olaf's Frozen Adventure"
- was just a seed of an idea ... - Let's do it.
Family came up. Again.
That seemed to really fit in well with the holiday season as
far as family and traditions, things that you do with your
family and friends and loved ones at the holiday time.
If you look at all the animators, and artists,
and technicians, we all love holiday shorts.
Like the one with that other lovable snowman.
What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen a talking
- snowman before? - We all remember "Frosty the Snowman,"
and we all remember "Charlie Brown's Christmas."
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!
And I remember I was with John Lasseter, and he had this
sort of twinkle in his eye, and he said to me, we have to make
- a holiday movie at some point. - We all thought it would be
a great opportunity to have a story that really
centered around Olaf as the main character.
It's a snowman. It's winter.
It's holiday time. All that kind of stuff.
- It seemed to sort of fit. - It lends itself so beautifully
to that kind of format.
It was our goal to make something that could stand next
to all those great memories that we had, and actually
create a new memory.
Next, the surprising tale behind Olaf.
And how he wasn't a lovable snowman to begin with.
A charmingly childlike snowman may seem like an
unlikely leading man, but that's exactly what this one is,
in "Olaf's Frozen Adventure."
He's come a long way since the
Early days of "Frozen," when Olaf character just didn't
- seem to be working. - Yeah.
I struggled with Olaf so much as a writer because I wanted him
to be special and unique and different and not stereotypical
or not sort of the sidekick, but there needed to be a special
quality to him. But also he needed a very unique
voice and, and for a character like Olaf, finding the right
actor shapes everything and the minute Josh came, we had three
- pages of dialogue to test. - Hey, guys.
That was a long minute. Huh?
The first time I ever went into a recording session with
Jen and Chris, the co-directors of the film, I remember we were
talking about, like, what we all sort of saw him as.
Wait. What is that?
And the first thing that we recorded was...
"Hi. I'm Olaf. And I like warm hugs."
Hi! I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs.
It was like this amazing lightbulb moment.
Hi! I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!
Where that one phrase sort of paved the road
- for the direction of the character. - And then we played and we
improv-ed and we goofed off and that scene when you meet Olaf
- is from that first session. - Hi, everyone.
I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs.
And for an extra flower, I'm also a love expert.
And once we had that, we could go anywhere with it,
because we had the context. We had the language.
We understood who he was, what
his point of view was, and how he contributed
- to telling this story. - For "Olaf's Frozen Adventure"
the process hasn't changed that much.
Improv is ... has been the foundation for a lot of the ...
the sort of unexpected moments.
And that's always a fun exercise for me.
Yeah, and I was almost thinking like it would be funny to go ...
For your family tradition, what is it? Tell me. Tell me!
Tell me! Like, just desperate.
- Yeah. - And violent.
Yeah. Let's try that too.
You don't have to do much, but when I do get to play it's
always fun sort of taking that material and then
flipping it on its head sometimes.
He's not here. He's currently not here right now.
He's not in this part of the forest.
I can assure you. He's not here.
You'll have to take my word on that.
He's always bringing you lots of different choices.
Is it like... Or is it like... Oooh!
And really interesting ways of interpreting the dialogue
- that we've written. - Let's go bring back
- summer tone. - Exactly. Yeah.
Let's go find their tradition!
You know, as cliché as it sounds,
every time I return to play Olaf it's ...
It's like putting on a familiar, old sweater that you
take out every Christmas, right? Oh, whoa!
And what does Olaf think about returning to Arendelle?
You know, Olaf definitely questioned his agents when
he got the call. You know, he's like, do I really
want to spend another couple of months in the snow?
I don't really want to know if I want to go back to inclement weather.
All jokes aside ...
It's interesting because I think "Frozen" and holidays are
synonymous, but it, in a certain sense, it's really
about winter, you know. Eternal winter.
And eternal winter means snow.
Snow. It had to be snow.
We knew that one of the big challenges for making snow in
this film was that we were going to have a lot of it.
More than we had ever done in an animated film.
And that posed a problem because guess
- who's made of snow. - Some of the challenges with
Olaf, I think first of all he's made of snow.
And there's a lot of us here on the crew in California that
don't have a lot of experience with snow so that
had to be right. He had to crunch like snow,
he had to have the weight of snow, but he also had to be very
playful and, and move in a playful way so we had
- to sell that right. - And there was only one way
- to make sure they got it right. - To me, it's research.
I always encourage doing tremendous amounts of research
on the subject matter that they're telling.
- So ... - Production sent us to
- Jackson Hole, Wyoming. - And for two days we just
played in the snow. Built snowmen, we jumped, slide.
There's a moment in the film where Olaf's sliding down the hill.
I actually slid down a hill as quickly
as I could... and just things like that really helped
- us out with Olaf. - We made it!
The costume department made us a huge skirt.
I got to have that on while we were tromping
- around in the snow. - I even had to wear the dress.
I can neither confirm nor deny whether I put the skirt on.
While the animators were playing with snow,
the design team needed to create Arendelle itself.
The story is telling us that these characters need to live
in a world that is extremely vast and grand.
So that eventually led me to center on Norway.
The first thing that I told everybody is get on a plane
- and go to Norway. - Next stop, Norway.
They found what they were looking for.
Amid the snowy hamlets and towering Norwegian fjords.
I settled on the fjords because I knew that would be
a stupendous setting to plant a kingdom at the foot of.
When teams go off to research, the thing I tell them is,
"open your ears, open your mind and open your heart."
You don't know what you're going to find when you go.
I never knew winter could be so... beautiful.
Everything is so specific,
from every icicle to everything someone's wearing.
One of the most important things they noticed was a Norwegian
- pattern called "rosemaling." - Something very, very small
but it loomed very large in, in the world of "Frozen" and that
is the idea of rosemaling. You'll find this everywhere in Norway.
On columns.
Ceilings, dresses.
We used this in our castle, on our characters.
Rosemaling was the starting point
for a lot of the language of Elsa's magic.
Yeah, we tried to create like a baseline of what her magic
would look like, all the pretty kind of rosemaling shapes.
All elements share the same language and that's how you help
to create a total world.
♪ I'm never going back ♪
- Coming up ... - # The past is in the past #
- the amazing story behind this hit song. - # Let it go #
And a first listen to Frozen's newest hits.
From the very start the team knew what "Frozen" would be.
- We set out to make a musical. - The only problem?
Disney hadn't made one in a while.
You know, the, the power of like "the Lion King" and
the "Beauty and the Beast," I think people thought that we
could never do that again, that it, that it had run it's course.
And so what we did is brought Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson
Lopez, his wife, in from the very, very, very beginning.
And they were a part of the story room.
And we learned a tremendous amount about the structure
of a musical, which is different than, than just, just
a regular movie that might have songs in it.
And we really created this movie from the ground up as a musical.
Do you want to build a snowman?
In a musical story, the songs inform the story
- and the story informs the songs. - And it was a song
that solved a surprising story problem ... Elsa.
When we came on the film, Anna was this perfect,
perfect princess and Elsa was this wild child villain.
She had a coat made out of living weasels.
All the weasels would crawl up her
- and make this living fur coat. - They had done a great job of
- creating a classic evil queen. - And Disney's done that and,
they're, they're good at it, but, but it's like can we
- see something new? - And Elsa was starting
to remind John Lasseter of somebody he knew.
My son Sam was diagnosed with diabetes when he
was 10 years old. And this little guy was being
poked, needle after needle after needle.
And he, he asked, he asked, "why me?"
Momma! Poppa!
And I thought of Sam as I was thinking of Elsa.
She was born with this. Why is she a villain?
And one moment that we concocted with the team
was this moment called Elsa's badass song.
So we were still writing a villain song and we started
getting into the headspace of what you'd feel like
if you were that isolated.
And we knew in this moment
that she'd go through a transformation from repressed
to letting her powers out and sort of trying to get
away from society and, and be who she really was.
And, and then Bobby came up with this vamp.
- Do you want to play the vamp? - Sure.
And sometimes, sometimes when
we're working in our little studio, he'll play something
that just sends chills up my arms and all over my body
and then I'm like, yes! And once we kind of started
writing for, from that ... from the reality of that, we,
we found that we had something to say.
- So Kristen ... - We got this hook.
Kristen got the hook, "Let it go."
Because she had to let go of everything she's ever known,
and yet it was this moment of exhilaration where she
could finally let go of all she'd been holding inside.
- Ready? - Yeah.
So I'm up on a mountain, the wind is blowing ...
- In prospect park. - And I'm blonde.
♪ The snow glows white on the mountain tonight ♪
♪ not a footprint to be seen ♪
♪ a kingdom of isolation ♪
- # and it looks like I'm the queen # - That's Bobby's line.
♪ The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside ♪
♪ couldn't keep it in heaven knows I've tried ♪
And the song wrote itself very quickly.
It was a day and a half, maybe two days.
♪ Be the good girl you always have to be ♪
♪ Conceal don't feel don't let them know ♪
♪ Well now they know ♪ ♪ Let it go ♪
♪ can't hold it back anymore ♪
- # Let it go # - And we sent the demo out
and everyone went, oh my gosh, that's great.
Shoot, we have to rewrite the whole thing.
- I don't think they said shoot, actually. - No.
I think it was a little more four letter than that.
I went, oh, god. I have to rewrite the entire movie again.
♪ The cold never bothered me anyway ♪
The first time I heard "let it go,"
I thought wow this isn't just like the funny,
sort of evil queen song. This was a real soulful,
- emotional, vulnerable song. - And with all these emotions,
with my son Sam in me. And I heard this song.
I knew this was it. This is exactly what this character needed.
♪ Here I stand and here I'll stay ♪
And then to my beautiful surprise,
I mean, she was never ever the nemesis, really.
She was just the misunderstood young woman
- that we can all relate to. - That song came at the right time
and it fundamentally changed the entire movie.
♪ Let it go let it go ♪
♪ When I'll rise like the break of dawn ♪
We had so much more fun making her this,
this complicated, kind of tortured hero.
♪ Here I stand in the light of day ♪
♪ Let the storm rage on ♪
♪ the cold never bothered me anyway ♪
And for "Olaf's Frozen Adventure," music is just as important.
We've got a lot of music packed into, into
- a half-hour short film. - Four new songs, in fact.
One song I think is going to be a holiday classic.
Be prepared to cry now.
It's so incredibly beautiful.
♪ Happy merry holly jolly ♪
♪ On a midnight clear ♪
Four new songs and two new songwriters.
Bobby and Kristen are so busy right now.
They're in fact the busiest couple in show business, I would say.
So when we approached them with this,
they were a little concerned, because
they're stretched in so many different ways.
And they helped us find Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel,
who are two incredible talents.
And they know that the burden of expectation is if you're
doing another story that follows a movie with songs like "Let it go"
and songs like "For the first time in forever," you best bring
your "A"-list material. If you were to take any of these
songs and put them in the original film, none of them
would feel out of place. They're that good.
- # Favorite time of year # - The music will unfortunately be
earworms for you and your children for many years to come.
Next, we reveal the story secrets
- of "Olaf's Frozen Adventure." - Whee!
It's almost time to tell you just what "Olaf's Frozen
- Adventure" is about. - Hey, guys!
Exciting, huh? But first, a quick recap.
What's happened in Arendelle since the end of the movie
is that of course we had the short "Frozen Fever."
Kristoff, are you sure I can leave you in charge here?
- Absolutely. - Because I don't want anything
- to happen to this courtyard. - What could happen?
- It's all set. - I'm not eating cake.
- That was Anna's birthday. - And then a few short
- Arendelle months after that ... - Our adventure takes place
the first holiday season after the gates have been opened.
And we're about to peek behind those gates, in an
exclusive preview of this brand-new story.
- Ready? - Anna and Elsa don't know what
the holidays are. They have no traditions together
because they've been separated for so long.
And like Anna and Elsa, Olaf is very curious about what
the holiday means, and, and what it means to have traditions.
John Lasseter was thinking how wonderful Olaf would be
as kind of a main character for our new story.
Look at these early storyboards.
Marrying a snowman to the holidays sounds like a perfect
match, but it wasn't as straightforward to realize
- as you'd think. - It's a challenge for us
as storytellers to craft a story around a character that is
guileless and, and really doesn't get angry with people.
So, that was an interesting challenge.
- Who's my cute little reindeer. - Don't talk to him like that.
How do you show something to the audience that they know,
but then show it to them in a way
- that they've never seen before. - Hi! I'm Olaf.
And once again family held the key.
I think that the story team here has done such a brilliant job
of creating a catalyst that comes from Anna and Elsa.
It really is about Olaf's Adventure.
It is his boundless enthusiasm and his drive to help and express
his love for his loved ones that really propels the story.
Well, he probably went on a mission to find traditions
for Anna and Elsa. That's what I'm getting
- third-hand anyway. - And how he marches out into
the far reaches of Arendelle looking for traditions.
But this is not to be a solo journey.
- Owie... Oh, boy! - And Sven is sort of Olaf's
partner in crime if you will on his, his mission.
Going back to the theme of family in the movie I feel like
Sven in some ways is, is kind of like a parental figure to Olaf.
Uh-huh. And who's the reindeer?
Of course, "Olaf's Frozen Adventure" will feature
everyone's favorite "Frozen" characters returning.
And you might find out some things that are unusual
- about some of them. - I think Kristoff, to me, has
been the most fun. We learn a little bit about his
holiday traditions and they're quite surprising.
He grew up in the woods with trolls.
- Hey! - I feel like when you're
raised by trolls, you know, you're going to be very bizarre
and very endearing.
Today I don't smell like reindeer.
Stick around for a first look at some never-before-seen artwork
from "Olaf's Frozen Adventure."
Yes, it's true.
"Olaf's Frozen adventure" is coming very soon.
But, why the wait? You ask yourself rhetorically.
Well, it takes time to put together something as special as this.
We've gone through the story process.
We've got most of "Olaf's Frozen Adventure" laid out,
which means we've got all the camera angles,
and all the elements that are in
a scene built, but now it's animation time.
And this is probably the most fun time of them all.
It's when you see the characters come to life.
And we've pretty much recorded all the character
voices, including Josh Gad for "Olaf."
- So, that's already done. - Whee!
And take a look at this ... here's some early concept art
from "Olaf's Frozen Adventure."
I think that the storyline the creative team has come up
with is one that's really rewarding and really
- emotionally fulfilling. - The quality of this will stand
next to the film, and you'll be able to look at both
the film and our short and they will be equally as artistically,
- you know, satisfying. - We have some nice twists
and turns in it. And like to think that it'll frame
some elements of "Frozen" the movie in a new light and
we'll be done plenty of time for, for next christmas.
And this is only the start. We have so much more for you
- "Frozen" fans on the way. - "Olaf's Frozen Adventure" is
going to be released in holiday 2017.
The following year is when the Broadway musical,
"Frozen," will appear. And then shortly after that,
"Frozen 2" will hit big screens everywhere.
The production crew went to the area very, to the very north
of Norway, into the lapland area.
So it's going to be interesting to see what they come up with.
Well, that's all for now.
I better get back to work so that "Olaf's Frozen Adventure"
is finished in time for the holidays next year.
Until then, I'm Josh Gad.
Thank you and have a happy, merry night.
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