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.

A frost giant's armpit

From the sweat of the left armpit of the frost giant Ymir, a male and a female being is created.

Still image from a scene in the movie.

1st scene animated

Here's a still shot from the first scene I have animated for the film. It is creatures spawning out of the sleeping body of the frost giant at an increasing pace. The characters for this scene were sculpted at the same time as they were animated emerging from the wall of plasticine, so they are only half the height of the "main cast", and much simpler in their design. I think that's OK though, as they are newborns after all.