The World Loves How to Train Your Dragon

If the weekend has taught us one thing, it's that the world LOVES How To Train Your Dragon! 

Framestore collaborated with director Dean DeBlois to bring the animated classic into the real world, craft action-packed sequences, and bring your favourite dragons to life. Led by VFX Supervisors Christian Manz, Francois Lambert, Andy Kind, Glenn Melenhorst, and Dom Hellier and Animation Supervisors Kayn Garcia, Nathan McConnel, Meena Ibrahim and Nick Tripodi, our teams focused on balancing realism with emotion, drawing inspiration from real-world animals like black panthers and salamanders to reimagine Toothless in a new medium.

🗞️ Variety, LA Times, and IndieWire all spotlight the craft, care and collaboration that shaped the film’s emotional heart and cinematic spectacle—elements we’re proud to have helped bring to life.

Read what Variety had to say here.
Find out more in the LA Times's interview with Dean and Christian.
Explore the way the dragons were brought to life with IndieWire.

A huge shout-out to our artists across departments who pushed creative and technical boundaries to honour this beloved world while helping reimagine it for new audiences.