How to Train Your Dragon

Behind the scenes: How to Train Your Dragon

This remake of a classic animation works from Roger Deakins’ original lighting design, a colour palette plucked from the Faroe Islands, and puppeteered dragons, explains DoP Bill Pope.

All too often, the live-action remake of a classic animation falls flat, but the makers of How to Train Your Dragon have miraculously retained the charm of the original, in part by not straying too far from the template...

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