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New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 07 Oct 2014, 20:19
by thenightandthefury
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A 25-minute short film, titled Dawn of the Dragon Racers, will be released on November 11, 2014, on the DVD/Blu-ray/digital release of How to Train Your Dragon 2. In the short, a hunt for a lost sheep turns into a competition between Hiccup and his friends for the first title of Dragon Racing Champion of Berk.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Tra ... (franchise)
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 08 Oct 2014, 10:51
by RealHousewifeofBerk
This was on there weeks ago.
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 08 Oct 2014, 12:47
by Neilandio
Don't trust everything you read on wikipedia.
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 13 Oct 2014, 12:41
by BerserkDragon
I saw this on Tumblr, too!
I can't wait!!
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 02:20
by Pakba
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 02:50
by Faerie_Dragon
I saw the images on Tumblr just a second ago and was gonna post them here too heh!
The stills look kinda strange though right? I was expecting the animation to be like the 2nd movie's but this is definitely closer to how I'd imagine the TV series to look like. Like it just looks
cheaper
Hiccup and the others looks cool though, shows a nice transition between their younger and older selves. Toothless's model however, looks exactly how he did in the Dragons TV series just with the red paint on him.
Don't get me wrong, I love the series and I'll probably love this short too (maybe even be proved wrong and it'll have AMAZING animation quality) but I expected it be like how Gift Of The Night Fury was.
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 03:38
by Pikey
At least they're using the lovely models for the people as we wanted (particularly Hiccup)...
But
oh god the fullbright and
oh god Toothless's model...
Come onnnnnn
is it just me or in the first picture, does hiccup have that sort of default model expression on his face?
The other teens look great to me otherwise.
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 03:48
by Oneill5491
- Faerie_Dragon
- 18 Oct 2014, 06:50
I saw the images on Tumblr just a second ago and was gonna post them here too heh!
The stills look kinda strange though right? I was expecting the animation to be like the 2nd movie's but this is definitely closer to how I'd imagine the TV series to look like. Like it just looks
cheaper
Hiccup and the others looks cool though, shows a nice transition between their younger and older selves. Toothless's model however, looks exactly how he did in the Dragons TV series just with the red paint on him.
Don't get me wrong, I love the series and I'll probably love this short too (maybe even be proved wrong and it'll have AMAZING animation quality) but I expected it be like how Gift Of The Night Fury was.
So just an FYI, this was produced by the same team that makes the television series so the quality of the animation and the story is exactly what you would expect from an episode of RoB/DoB.
SPOILERS BELOW. I won't get into plot details, but if you want to have a proper expectation set before watching this short, read on.
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This may disappoint a lot of you but only about 3 minutes of this 25 minute short contained the older characters. They are only there at the beginning to setup a flashback story of how dragon racing came about and at the end to cap it. Where in the timeline this short begins with the older characters is unknown. I got the impression it was post-HTTYD2 considering Astrid's braids are in Hiccup's hair, but that can easily be argued as it could have been undone and redone or it may have been a matter of convenience for the animators to copy over his hair model from the feature film.
Once the flashback story starts, it's 100% the style in both animation and writing of any episode you would see from RoB/DoB. That means 15yo!Hiccup and gang. There are no references to HTTYD 2 and no inclusion of any new character or new dragon shown in HTTYD 2.
So this is certainly nothing on par with GotNF. Quite frankly, they could use this short as episode 1 of season 3 and they very well might. I have to imagine that any short that is made with quality to the likes of GotNF would only be distributed and sold as a separate DVD since additional revenue would be needed to justify the amount of money it takes to make a short with the same quality as GotNF.
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 04:06
by Pikey
Meh, I guess I
could deal with the fullbright. Would've been nice but at least we didn't get totally stitched and stuck with a cartoon short like the Boneknapper.
Not to say that's great or anything; it just could've been better/worse.
rip hopes and dreams
New Info for Dawn of the Dragon Racers!
Posted: 18 Oct 2014, 04:33
by Faerie_Dragon
We've had so much stuff released this week like the deleted scene, the "Where No One Goes" making of video, the DW event in London and the masterclass given by the Chief of Technology Lincoln Wallen and Dean DeBlois about how they animated the movies that I got super stoked and hyped for this short. All that awesome technology and then they give the TV series animation
Again, don't get me wrong I'm gonna love it cause it's HTTYD material and gives insightful back story etc. but come on. It could of been so much
more.
I would rather a separate DVD with the short on it or a double DVD combo with the movie and short just so it can get the money it needed to be the "
more" I'd want but alas, we can't get everything. At we're getting
something I suppose right?