For all who think Computer animated Movies are "just" done with Computers. Stroke on a key and voila! In reality it is Bone-Hard Work. And needs so much love, blood, toil, tears and sweat. Not only to Story, Characters and Details. KUDOS to the Team from "How to train a Dragon". Exceptional Work and truly a Movie-Masterpiece even for Generations to come! And thanks for Posting!
Totally and what's worst is their old software doesn't even support multicore , therefore its a pain in the ass to animate when it takes 10-20 seconds to just make a small adjustments.
I love to see the work behind of an amazing animations, its really great to see all the movements, textures, lights, sounds, voices, special effects, storyboard, brainstorming, all in one amazing work of art. Really i never get tired watching this scenes Great work Dream works
Oh my gosh, I LOVE this movie! This movie is the catalyst that got me into art and design study for feature films! Hope to work on something like this in the near future!! :)
I liked when they did the computer testing for Ruffnut & Tuffnut @ 2:30- 2:38. The way they moved in that test perfectly matched how they moved in the film (I could imagine one of them saying, "Ok, so this is a weird place. Nothing but white everywhere, and I'm stuck here with you!"), and when Ruff casually punched Tuff I LOL'd!
Its so great to know how they do all this, and actually being able to do it. I love the Industry. Most of you guys will never know just how much work gets put into this type of movie, but i think you all should at some point in your life try to model and or texture in a 3D package. They use a lot of software, 3dsmax, Maya, Motionbuilder, mudbox, zbrush, Adobe systems packages. ECT We have to know them all. Its a lot of work,
@ennisbucci Not exactly. In 3D animation the image is taken through many different stages. Color correction wouldn't be done on a frame by frame basis, but it would be done shot by shot. It's up to the final lighting crew to bring out the last details. But yeah, it all results in about that much work!
The physics, fire, water, HAIR, smoke, and to some degree animations in this movie were TOP NOTCH!! Some of the design choices on the dragons were kind of silly though, and made them look either cross-eyed or like they had friggin down syndrome.
The part of the movie on the screen at around 0:37 looks like a deleted scene. I really hope they have deleted scenes on the DVD, as I assume they will be on the Bluray.
@InfiniteMultiMedia Every studio has it's own personally developed program they use that is not available to the public. I think Blue Sky's is the most kick-ass though. Dreamworks is a close second.
@InfiniteMultiMedia They probably used LOTS of different programs. Maybe Maya with customized shells or interfaces. Or they might have used even their own in house program. You can get results with any 3d software out there though. I personally like 3ds Max just because it's what I learned first and is easiest for me to get great results. After Effects is also great.
