How to train your dragon art book

The Art of How to Train Your Dragon

Gallery

The image gallery for The Art of How to Train Your Dragon
may be viewed here.

The Art of How to Train Your Dragon was released on February 1, 2010. It was written by Tracey Miller-Zarneke, who is also the author of "The Art of Kung Fu Panda" and "The Art and Making of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs".

Contents

• 1 Summary
• 2 Plot
• 3 Characters
  • 3.1 Humans
  • 3.2 Dragons
  • 3.3 Dragon Species
  • 3.4 Locations
  • 3.5 Objects
• 4 Site Navigation

Summary

How to Train Your Dragon is the story of a scrawny teenaged Viking, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, who lives on the island of Berk in the North Sea. Hiccup is a member of a Viking tribe and wants to make his father, the chief, proud of him. Entering dragon training, Hiccup has a chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father. But then, in a world where Dragons and Vikings do not coexist peacefully, Hiccup encounters and ultimately befriends an injured dragon, at which point his world is turned upside down.

The Art of How to Train Your Dragon is a spectacularly designed, full-color insider’s guide to the creative process that went into turning Cressida Cowell’s popular book into a feature-length, animated film. Featuring more than 350 pieces of development artwork, including early character designs, story sketches, and concept paintings never before released by the studio, the book provides an in-depth look at the process involved in bringing mythical Dragon and Viking worlds to life.

Plot

On 160 pages, the book contains over 350 images of concept sketches, preliminary drawings, architectural plans, watercolors, oil paintings and digital artwork, providing an in depth look at the process involved with bringing both the dragon and Viking worlds to life with present-day cinematic energy.

The book is divided into roughly three parts, the dragons, the Vikings and the environment including the props like houses. Discarded art and characters are also included, like Hiccup's mother. Tracy Miller-Zarneke has collected interesting quotes and commentary from the production staff too, which makes the book an insider's guide to the creative process behind developing the story, the script and the characters. It also contains descriptions of the animating, rigging, surfacing and lighting process and the special challenges of working in the new Stereoscopic 3-D environment.

Nico Marlet and Simon Otto seem to be the lead character designers responsible for the concept art of the dragons and Vikings, although a good amount of designs shown are actually from Nicolas Marlet. The character digital paintings are great and the colors are really beautiful, kudos to Zhaoping Wei.

Characters

Humans

• Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
• Astrid Hofferson
• Fishlegs Ingerman
• Snotlout Jorgenson
• Ruffnut Thorsten
• Tuffnut Thorsten
• Stoick the Vast
• Gobber the Belch
• Gothi

Dragons

• Toothless
• Stormfly
• Meatlug
• Hookfang
• Barf and Belch
• The Red Death

Dragon Species

• Night Fury
• Monstrous Nightmare
• Deadly Nadder
• Hideous Zippleback
• Gronckle
• Terrible Terror
• Red Death

Locations

• Berk Forest
• Berk Village
• Dragon Island
• Dragon Training Arena
• Blacksmith Shop
• The Great Hall
• Gothi's Hut

Objects

• Berkian Weapons
• Astrid's Axe
• The Book of Dragons
• Berkian Village
• Viking Longships

Site Navigation

Dragons: Rescue Riders: Hunt for the Golden Dragon • Dragons: Rescue Riders: Secrets of the Songwing • Dragons: Rescue Riders: Huttsgalor Holiday

How to Train Your Dragon Film Commentary • Dreamworks Dragons Franchise Interviews • Where No One Goes: The Making of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (transcript) • How to Train Your Dragon 2 Film Commentary • How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Film Commentary

Cartoon Network: Dragon Secrets • Dragonpedia • Dragons: Race to the Edge Interactive Map • Gobber's Guide to Battling Dragons • How to Train Your Dragon (film) Extras • How to Train Your Dragon 2 Extras • How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Extras • How to Train Your Dragon: Legends • How to Train Your Dragon Website • List of Deleted Scenes • Racing For The Gold • Snoggletog Log

Who did the artwork for how do you train your dragon?

How to Train Your Dragon book illustrations?

Did Cressida Cowell illustrate how do you train your dragon?

What are the 12 books in how do you train your dragon collection?