computer-animated action fantasy film How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the 2003 book of the same name by Cressida Cowell, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Bonnie ArnoldHow to Train Your Dragon 2 / ProducerBonnie Arnold is an American film producer and executive who has worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation. Arnold was born in Atlanta, Georgia and rose to prominence in Hollywood during the initial wave of computer-animation. Wikipedia

Hiccup (Tawin Yavapolkul) is a Norse teenager from the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. His progressive views and weird sense of humor make him a misfit, despite the fact that his father (Kongkrapunt Sangsuriya) is chief of the clan. Tossed into dragon-fighting school, he endeavors to prove himself as a true Viking, but when he befriends an injured dragon he names Toothless, he has the chance to plot a new course for his people's future.How to Train Your Dragon / Film synopsis

To visualize Dragon 2, the team created more than 100,000 storyboards for the 90-minute film. It took about 18 months to two years to craft the film, with a lot of back-and-forth to get the look of every frame just right. The animators then created more than 500 million digital files.

Yeah, the 3D animation software that DreamWorks uses is Preemo, their own closed-sourced software.

Anatomically speaking, dragons are hard to animate because their physics don't actually make a lot of sense; they are too heavy by far to fly and their wings are where their front legs would be (think of the anatomy of a bat or a pterosaur, for example).

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell.

He is 15 years old in the first film, Dragons: Riders of Berk and Dragons: Defenders of Berk, 18 to 20 years old in Dragons: Race to the Edge, 20 years old in How to Train Your Dragon 2, 21 years old in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and 30 in the epilogue and Homecoming.

It was directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, and is inspired by the 2003 book of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer.

Animators, like all artists, necessarily have individual styles, but must subordinate their individuality in a consistent way to whatever style is employed on a particular film. Since the early 1980s, teams of about 500 to 600 people, of whom 50 to 70 are animators, typically have created feature-length animated films.

The studio originally made some traditionally animated films, as well as three stop-motion co-productions with Aardman Animations, but now exclusively relies on computer animation.

DreamWorks uses a NetApp hybrid cloud to: Manage billions of digital files. Optimize workflows in the cloud and in the data center. Provide unprecedented performance for artists workflows.

Yes you can make a good living as an animator. Very very rarely wealthy. But a very good paying professional career. However it can be a tough start, and the first 2-5 years may not pay greatt, but will absolutely pay the bills.

Animate is a vector based application and not really a fixed-frame format like After Effects or a video editor. You are using un-rendered assets and that requires GPU speeds to calculate real-time frame rates during playback. Also, masks are a resource hog also and will slow down playback speed.

How to Train Your Dragon (abbreviated HTTYD) is an American media franchise from DreamWorks Animation and loosely based on the eponymous series of children's books by British author Cressida Cowell.

of Scotland Author Cressida Cowell has revealed the specific island off the west coast of Scotland which inspired her series How To Train Your Dragon to mark the 20th anniversary of the first book.