Ve

Ve (also known as Lodur) is the third brother of the group, and the last of the main characters in this film.

From this point on, the characters left to be posted on this blog will be Jotnar; otherwise known as trolls and frost giants.

Vili

Vili (also known as Hoenir) is one of Buri's three Grandsons, and brother of Odin and Ve.

Odin

Odin (also known as Wodin, Woden, Wodan, The Wanderer, The Wise and several dozen other names) is the chief god in Norse mythology. He is the eldest of three brothers and the son of Borr and the Jotun woman Bestla. Wednesday is named after him.

Later, after the events of this film Odin is to become the God of Warfare and Wisdom and the leader of the Aesir tribe. Besides fathering Thor, he becomes known as a wise man who often travels the world in the shape on an old man. He sacrifices an eye in exchange for wisdom, acquires an eight-legged horse that can fly, and two ravens that gives him information from all over the world.

This film however takes place before this while Odin is a young man. With both eyes intact he starts a perpetual mortal feud between Aesir and Jotnar and creates the world.

His design is fairly simple with not much detail as he will move a lot, and that makes animating him easier. Noses however tend not to move much, so I like making detailed noses on my characters while keeping the rest of the face simple, particularly eyes and eyebrows needs to be easy to move.

Borr

Borr (also known as Bor, Burr or Bur) is Buri's only known child and father of Odin. He had three sons with the Jotun woman Bestla, but besides that little is known of him. His role in this film is primarily to keep the chronology in order.

This is probably the jolliest-looking of all the characters I've made for this film. I also gave him some more detail then for his sons because his role in the movie is so limited it wont be a big hassle to animate his long braids and cape.

Buri

Buri (also known as Bure) was the first of the Aesir, those we refer to as the Gods. Before time and  the creation of the world he was thawed out of an ice block in Niflheim by the Cow Audhumla who licked the salty blocks for nourishment. Audhumla came into existence around the same time as Ymir and provided everyone nourishment with her milk.

A great theory I heard about Buri is that he was left over from a previous creation-cycle. It happens a couple of times in norse mythology that an entire species is repopulated by the only surviving male and female. This film describes one of those incidents.

Buri was the grandfather of Odin, king of the Aesir. With a Jotnar woman, Buri had a son Bor, who in turn had three sons with the Jotnar woman Bestla.

He was also a keen florist, but not really.