How to make dwarfs

Here's two frames from the movie showing Odin molding a maggot into a dwarf. The process is simple. First, kill a frost giant. Then, take his dead body and make a world, using his flesh to make the earth, bones for mountains and hair for trees. Then. wait for maggots to appear from the rotting corpse. Take the maggots, do some molding and ta-da! You've got a dwarf. There's no female dwarfs though, so if you wanna be nice like the Gods, give them a couple of princes that can forge more out of rocks.

Behind the scenes: Big feet!

This is a behind the scenes photo of the six-headed troll being born from the frost giant's feet. It was the most difficult to animate, as there are six heads, and he was a bit front heavy. It was also quite fun though. To not have to animate all the heads all the time I made a little scene where most the heads are sleeping except one. The head wakes up discover he has many heads, and to find the next head to wake up takes control of an arm. In their struggle to control the arm, they wake the others and start a fight. At this point all heads are awake and the animation process got slower, so it was time to put some of the heads to "sleep" again, which the fight managed to do in an excellent fashion. That's also the end of the scene.

To make the big feet, but not mix more plasticine than necessary to get Jotunn-green, I covered two cardboard plates in the shape of  giant feet with plasticine in a layer just thick enough to get some depth. They actually became very heavy, which made them hard to animate because gravity really wanted them to tip over. Every break I took the feet would have sagged noticeably, and needed readjustment. In the movie, the frost giant is therefore sleeping a little bit restlessly during this scene.