Dragons!!

[mothwing]

EDIT:  lordhellebore 's post just reminded me: Happy Easter, everyone! I hope you're having a great weekend.

Unlike Hellebore's Flist, I'm in OMG! mood not because of Easter, but because of Dragons and Vikings ♥. I don't know how I could have possibly missed this, but I learned only yesterday about the existence of "How To Train Your Dragon", the movie and the books. Male character and obvious annoyances aside, I'm incredibly excited about this. Even though the main dragon looks like a cross between a cat and a tadpole, what's up with that?

Still. There are Vikings!!, and someone on the giant love-fest that is DeviantArt told me there was going to be a shieldmaiden. Yes, she's most likekly going to be female action heroine stock, I know, but I like to think that that'll be counteracted by the awesomeness of Vikings.

Vikings. And dragons. I've already heard that whoever did the runes in that movie ought to have read up on them properly and not used English spelling, and how did someone raised by two guys with fake Hoot's Mon Scots get an American accent...?

Still. Vikings.

and cats tadpoles Stitch dragons!!

Comments

[krakelwok.livejournal.com]

It's not a tadpole, it's Stitch - only in black. (See my last entry about that.)

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, that's the character that dragon resembles! I had been wondering.
Also, some of the humans seem to be clones of other animated humans - is that due to there only being so many shapes human animated characters can come in, or are there other reasons for that?

[krakelwok.livejournal.com]

I could imagine that for crowd shots they took generic villager rigs with customisable body parts to give it a little variety. That's actually an advantage of 3D animation. In traditional animation all you can do is re-use complete animation and multiply it in the same shot, maybe recolour it, but that's it.
In Disney's Hunchback they first used 3D models for the crowd scenes. If you pay attention to the crowd members instead of the individual foreground character animation you'll notice the generic background characters look pretty robotic and horrible. It's OK, though, because the scene focus isn't on them and they wisely shrunk or blurred them to make up for their lack of detail.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. I'll put it down to them being horribly inbred and all interrelated. It IS a very small village, after all.