Olaf is a fictional snowman character from Walt Disney Animation Studios 53rd animated film, Frozen \r
As a snowman Anna and Elsa built together as kids, Olaf represents innocent love and the joy the sisters once had when they were young before being split. He isnt just funny, hes also got a big role to play representing the innocent love in the scale of fear versus love.[16] It wasnt until he meant something to the girls that he resonated with us,,[17] Olaf couldnt just be thrown in, he had to have a purpose and that one of his purposes was to be the embodiment of the sisterly relationship that had gone cold.[18] When Anna and Elsa were very little, and before Elsas powers accidentally hurt Anna, they played. Theyd sneak away and play with her powers. And you see them roll the snowman. Hes not magical. He doesnt come to life. But they name him Olaf and he likes warm hugs. It inspires the look. And so when Elsa is singing “Let It Go” obviously the first thing she goes to is the last moment she was happy. And it was that moment. And so hes imbued with that. Hes innocent love. The continuous themes that can be seen throughout the movie revolve around the power of love and fear. Olaf, on one end of that spectrum, represents the most innocent kind form of love. It is possible that he resembles some of the characteristics of Annas younger self. This provides a connection between the sisters happy past and their ability to remember that love in difficult times. Overall his character provides much of the comic relief found in the film, while conveying lovable innocence and purity. And so he was just a lot of fun, and emotionally hell bring a lot that we werent able to show you yet, too. So hes funny in the kids-state-the-obvious kind of way. (Lee) And he can say very poignant things too. (Buck)[2]\r
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In very early versions of the film, Olaf was originally written as one of the guards at Elsas castle when the concept of Elsa controlling a legion of menacing snowmen was still in the story.[18][19] Buck talked on this scrapped character setting, We always talked about she was trying to learn about her powers. So we talked about it like its the first pancake. You know that pancakes get burned on the bottom that you throw out. Well, thats Olaf. Olaf was her first pancake.[19] In order to keep the character from getting too complex, the directors wanted him to have a childlike innocence.[18] According to Lee, When youre a child the awkwardness and the funny shapes you make with the snowmen, the heads are never perfect and thats how they came up with the ideas when thinking what kids would think of a snowman.[18][19]\r
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Gad also did plenty of improvements for Olaf during the recording sessions. But the directors were very careful not to risk the character taking over the story.[18] Olaf was very much a sketch until we had Josh Gad, and then we would just get in the room and play and wed have a lot of fun and thats really how we found his voice specifically and how he looks at the world. It really was working with Josh that did that. It was a lot funnier than I expected, thanks largely to Josh Gads surprisingly well-written deluded snowman character ] Gads studio performance was videotaped, and animators used his facial expressions and physical moves as a reference for animating the character.\r
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Hyrum Osmond, one of the films animation supervisors, served as the character lead for Olaf.] Del Vecho described him as quiet but he has a funny, wacky personality so we knew hed bring a lot of comedy to it.]smond himself admitted that My personalitys a bit like Olaf.[\r
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The filmmakers developed a new software called Spaces to aid artists in deconstructing Olaf and rebuilding him as part of the animation process.[22][23] It was kind of an animators dream, Osmond enthused. You have a character that can come apart. We said to the animation crew, Just have fun with it. The fun part of Olaf, we learned early on that his body parts can fall apart and we knew that we would want to take full advantage of that. You will see quite a bit more of that in the movie in a surprising way. (Chris Buck).[20] Olaf has become his own sort of standout comic character and the animators are having fun animating him. Theres a lot of squash in there – I mean, a lot – and hes the only character we can throw off a cliff and have him come apart on the way down, still survive and be happy.We have the contrast of Olaf being a Snowman but loving the idea of Summer