How to train your dragon – Animation with a moustache

November 23, 2015

Academy Creative Spark: Simon Otto

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvXFz1tsF4[/youtube]

Academy Originals just posted an inspirational video interview with Dreamworks Head of Character Animation Simon Otto which in the Dreamworks lingo would probably translate into HTTYD HOCA 😉 (click above for the video)

As a fine art hobbyist and compulsory doodlers I couldn’t help smiling throughout.

“Animator Simon Otto (“How to Train Your Dragon”, “How to Train Your Dragon 2”, “Kung Fu Panda”) takes viewers inside his creative process in an exploration of where ideas come from”

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Animation

March 6, 2010

by Olivier Ladeuix

How to train your dragon, new clips

If you are not worried to see to much of the movie before it hits the theatre, have a look at that new teaser and “Forbidden friendship” a 2mins long shot of the encounter between Hiccup and Night Fury.

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There is something really striking in those clips and I really wonder how this is gonna work out in the final movie. A lot of the shots are lit by an overcast sky and most of the colours are desaturated except for a tiny amount of shots like “Forbidden friendship”. Since not all the shots are similar, I guess it is a deliberate choice but that’s a really odd one especially from Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. Is it how they translate watercolours in CG?

The movie is out in few weeks, I can’t wait!

Oops I was about to forget the link to the “How to train your dragon”‘s blog
http://howtotrainyourdragon.tumblr.com/