Whether it is high in the sky or sharing a fun moment with the human Hiccup, without teeth, dark dragon with a friendly face and an infected tail, throws you with its beloved nature.
It is not surprising that the slogan “How to Train your Dragon” will become, The first He arrived in 2010. (Since then, there have been two sequences, three separate TV series and five shorts). Fans preferred among the viewers of the GEN-Z, to the big screen now repetition of a new realism for a new edition of the live movement, now in theaters.
In an unprecedented step, Dean Deblois, who directed all three animated films “Dragon”-as well as the original “Lilo & Schitch” 2002, along with Chris Sanders-the reservation of direct work. His priority was to preserve the essence without teeth.
“It is our most famous dragon within the entire collection,” says Deblois on the phone. “He has a lot of knowledge and personality that comes. Many of them are expressed in this face that is completely similar to stitching with large eyes, ear panels and mouth.”
In fact, the entire living endeavor depends on whether it can be properly translated without teeth as a realistic dragon between human actors and physical groups, while preserving the magic of animated movies.
A copy of the original animation 2010 “How to train your dragon.”
(Dreamworks Animation LLC)
According to Christian Manz, the supervisor of the visual effects of the new movie, when Peter Kramer, the president of Universal Pictures, at the beginning, at the beginning that the project in 2022, was not convinced that without teeth would work. The gentle stone of a fictional creature successfully achieved was Hippogrif, a winged creature of four legs seen in 2004 “Harry Potter and a prisoner of Azkaban.”
For the feasibility of a new set of non -teeth, DREAMWORKS British British effects and the Framestore computer animation were recruited to spend three months in an attempt to create a “realistic” version of toothless. Vermestor has achieved some common successes in her name: Badtington Bear in the series of films, Dubi of the world of “Harry Potter” and Rockette from Marvel films.
“We always knew that we were not aimed at a real dragon, as in the dragon of the game of Thrones,” Manz says.
The Toothless’ design, especially his face features, presented a challenge to Manz and the team in Vermestor. If they make his eyes or mouth very small or if they try to reshape his head significantly, taking into account more nature, he lost his personality quickly.
“He was on his big face and expressing with greater eyes than any animal in the animal kingdom, including the blue whale, to stay because, without it, we felt that we would present a lesser version without teeth.”
A theatrical show based on the first movie entitled “How To Your Dragon: Live Spectaculation”, which made a tour in Australia and New Zealand in 2012, radically changed the design – to a mixed response. “It was a teeth like the creature and was not attractive and charming,” says Simon Auto, the cartoonist of the characters of all three animated films.
Although it might be very hidden for the non -trainer viewers to notify them, some changes in the design that distinguishes without his moving counterpart have been made.
“He is now bigger, the smallest head, and his eyes are already smaller,” Manz says. The reshaping of his flour head and body was intended: an attempt to make him mix in a realistic world.
“The interesting thing is that when people see the living work movie, they say,” Oh, it is without teeth, just as it came out of the animated movie. “But in fact, if I put them side by side, you will see some differences.”
The body’s tissue should be more complicated with regard to the release of live motion, so it will feel more convincing in environments.
“In animation, it is very smooth,” Manz says. “We have tried snake -like skin, but it made him look very uncomfortable. Don’t want to put your hand on his forehead.”
Mason The Times in “How to Train your dragon.”
(International photos)
Both versions are designed on the screen without teeth using the same digital technology: computer animation. The difference here is that the person who aims to share the space with the world of meat and blood, with distinctive aesthetic concerns. Even if the search for realism in creatures only in our imagination may seem intuitive, the goal is to make them feel distress in their makeup world.
“One of the things I don’t like to re -make the serpent is that they are trying to want to replace the animation source, and I find myself very protection from it,” says Deblois. “We have tried to create a version that lives next to it. It follows the beats of that original story, but it brings new depths and expanded myths and moments of the most overwhelming movement and flying. But it never tries to replace the moving movie because I am very proud of this movie.”
Without the teeth, as we know now, it was explicitly arose on the screen. The original book series in Cressida Cowell is Tiny and Green (a design that can be seen in the first moving movie in the form of a small dragon known as terrible horror).
But when Deblois and Sanders came on board, 15 months before the 2010 release, to replace the previous directors, their first major change was to make the dragon without teeth could run.
The screen of the screen of the black tiger was first inspired the appearance of the teeth in animated movies. Otto, one of the designers who know the best off (he drew the original back in 2008), remembers his references in the real world.
“It is a mixture of a bird of prey, such as the Pyregerian falcon, in very simplified shapes – of course cats but also a Mexican snender called axolotl,” says Otto. Sanders’s design affected the Disney star stitch, his big eyes in the form of almonds, ears and mouth, on the design.
“There is a little effect on the design of Stitch in Toothless”, which makes them feel that they are a distant cousin, “says Deblois.
He believes that making without teeth looks like mammals, instead of reptiles, and giving him the traits of pets similar to its keys to become unforgettable.
“[We] He says: “He spent a lot of time on YouTube looking at the videos of dogs and cats in making funny things, and we are trying to integrate a lot of this behavior without teeth with the hope that people watch the movie,” This is like my cat “or” my dog does it. “
Mason Times reacts to a group with a doll version without teeth.
(Helen Salon)
On the Live-Action collection, toothless and the other Dragons was present as large dolls with simple jobs, run by a team of major brides led by Tom Wellon, a work performance on the play “War Horse”.
Pupets was supposed to aim to provide actors, especially Mason Themes, who plays Hiccup, a scene partner in the real world. The tears had a foam without teeth, a joint decipher and articulated ear panels that allowed an invisible interactive performance.
“There is a performance that the Dean can guide and that Mason and other actors can behave, so that the reaction is completely reasonable,” Manz says. “[The puppets] It is clear that it is removed from the frame at the end, but this means that you believe in this connection. “
As for the impressive airlines, as riding without teeth, the production created a moving dragon placed on the giant Gimbal, which moved on six different axes to simulate aviation physics.
“If the dragon dives, ascends, or a banker and a rotation, Mason will be thrown into the saddle, like the knight on the race horse.” “I got it from the animal in a truly felt.”
Masson Times rides a non -amymatonic model.
(Helen Salon)
Despite all his success in the animated world, Deblois has never directed a live movie so far.
He says: “I praise my world for his danger to knowing that I did not make a living movie, but I also realize that I know where the heart and wonder was, and I was determined to bring him to the screen.”
Auto, the designer who trained without any other tooth trained, says that “he would have been a trousers” if he knew the drawings he did in 2008, he would generate a privilege and attractiveness to the topic (Re -Create “Isle of Berk” in Universal Studios Florida earlier this year).
“The most important option they took for live work was to ensure that the audience falls in love without teeth.” “And you understand that if you have a creature like this as your friend, you will not surrender to him.”
