Podcast: How to Train Your Dragon
We sat down with Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois to talk about How to Train Your Dragon. Chris and Dean have long been a creative team; their brief history includes writing together on Mulan, writing/directing Lilo and Stitch, and writing/directing How to Train Your Dragon.
The two were gracious enough to spend time speaking with us about creative decision making and articulate their thought processes while making a film. It was very inspirational to hear such talented people discuss how they bring their visions to life. We talked with them about story structure, design, cinematography, character animation, directing, and much, much more. A lot of very talented people came together to create the film, and these wonderful directors are never shy about handing out credit! Among many others, they discussed the amazing contributions of Simon Otto (Head of Character Animation) and the famed cinematographer, Roger Deakins. You can find a larger crew list here to search for any other names they bring up.
Enjoy!
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June 14, 2010 - 7:37 pm
Excellent, thanks a million
June 14, 2010 - 7:40 pm
Great interview!
June 14, 2010 - 7:52 pm
That was awesome! Keep it up guys, your making a lot of people happy
June 15, 2010 - 8:25 pm
awesome interview guys!! keep’m coming…PLEASE!
-Cheers, Dave
June 17, 2010 - 2:23 pm
That was great. Dean and Chris are on the top of their game. Dreamworks did a great job with this film.
August 11, 2010 - 5:29 am
Hey guys this is pretty cool I liked it a lot. If you don’t mind I would like to give you a suggestion for a podcast. I loved, absolutely loved the comedy round table, I have listened to it ten times at least. I think you should do another round table like that covering another animation topic, like dramatic shots or something else you guys would like to talk about. I just think that round table dynamic is really really interesting. Of course I also like the one on one interview with Ted Ty. I guess I could just vote for more animators ha ha ha sorry for the long comment. Keep up the good work guys its awesome love every minute of it.