Training Exercise

摘要

The title of DreamWorks Animations latest film is How to Train Your Dragon, and indeed, the star of this animated feature, a teenaged Viking named Hiccup, does just that, albeit in his own way. So, it makes sense that the biggest challenges for the real-world animators, visual effects artists, modelers, and riggers centered on "training" CG tools to help the crew create these dragons. Seven dragons in all. Unique dragons devised by Annie Award-winning character designer Nicolas Marlet (Kung Fu Panda, Over the Hedge), who also designed the main characters for the film: Hiccup, his big-bearded father Stoick, a young female Viking named Astrid, and various other Vikings young and old. Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, the team who wrote and directed Disney's Lib and Stitch, directed How to Train Your Dragon and wrote the screenplay. It's the second film created in stereo 3D at DreamWorks from start to finish.