How To Train Your Dragon | Unleashing the Red Death

Every epic adventure needs a big, bad foe to face off against, and there’s none bigger or badder than the Red Death. 

Easily the biggest creature Framestore has ever brought to life, the Red Death is both an incredible feat of animation and an environment in her own right: cratered, mountainous and towering over the world around her. 

In this short film, you’ll hear from Director Dean DeBlois, Production VFX Supervisor Christian Mänz, Production Animation Supervisor Glen McIntosh, VFX Supervisor Francois Lambert and Framestore Pre-production Services Visualisation Supervisor Jon Allen, who’ll spill the tea on how they amped up the action for How to Train Your Dragon's third act. From ideation and real-life reference to standalone set builds and use of our proprietary Farsight Go AR tool to help frame the fiery action on set, it’s all here.