031. Bruni (Model Intro)

Bruni is a small salamander and one of four elemental spirits that live in the enchanted forest in Disney's Frozen II, Bruni being the spirit of fire. When set loose, he sets the enchanted forest ablaze, creating beautiful but violent fires all throughout his path, however, in a passive state, he can create small flickers of flame to help the Northuldra tribe.

I'm planning to model Bruni as in the pose above, but since he is the spirit of fire it'd be a bit odd not to include any fire, so my plan is to sculpt him catching the snowflake and instead have his fire starting to fade out across his back as though the ice effect is starting to work. I'm hopefully going to make the fire optional so you can have either the ice or fire version and for those who want to print his fire in see through pink resin like I plan to.

The wip post will be out sometime tomorrow for a first look at the upcoming model, he's only little so hopefully this one won't take too long, if all goes well I expect the first version to be out sometime Sunday with the patterned version to follow shortly after. Character trivia is below, and as always thanks for subscribing!

• According to the junior novelization, Olaf is the one who christens the Fire Spirit "Bruni", and the rest of the group call him by this name, though Bruni is never addressed by name in the finished film.
• Out of the four spirits, Bruni is the only one that is technically a living creature. He and the Nokk are considered to be Elsa's most prominent animal companions. Like Elsa, despite being a spirit, Bruni is still a living creature, so it is unknown if he is mortal like her.
• Prior to his name being changed to Bruni in the final version of the film, his name was originally "Sally", which is derived from "salamander", the aforementioned creature on which Bruni is based.
• Bruni's name is an anagram for "I burn", which most likely references the fact that, as the Fire Spirit, he can set his body aflame.
• Bruni is the name of the rune used in the ancient Scandinavian culture which represents fire.
• In European mythology, specifically in the works of Paracelsus, the element of fire was represented by a mythological creature called a "salamander", which roughly resembled its namesake, but often varied in depiction (sometimes depicted as a dragon or reptile rather than an amphibian).

See you in the next post,

Harley