How To Train Your Dragon

In October 2008, Chris Sanders was asked to take over a
troublesome film with a March 2010 release date. He immediately
called his old co-director Dean Deblois. Somehow, despite
everything we've ever discussed on this podcast, the film they
made is good.





How To Train Your Dragon is the opposite of almost every film
we've covered before - an instant classic that pushed the
animation form and made bold calls on a tight deadline, and
actually stuck the landing. But to understand how it pulled that
off, we need to cover early Dreamworks, renaissance Disney, and a
little picture book called The Big Bear Aircraft Company.





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CLIPS:


The Story Room: The Making of Lilo and Stitch


The Making of How To Train Your Dragon: Going Into The
Story


Chris Sanders - Director of How to Train Your Dragon +
Lilo & Stitch Cartoons!!! (Directing Animation Podcast
#39)


Animation Part 3 with Dean Deblois (Team Deakins Podcast
Episode 12)


All Star - Smashmouth


Forbidden Friendship - John Powell (How To Train Your
Dragon)


Coming Back Around - John Powell (How To Train Your
Dragon)


Fairytale - Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell
(Shrek)


Short Hair - Jerry Goldsmith (Mulan)


Your Father Would Be Proud - Michael Giacchino (Rogue
One)


A Place in The Sky - Hans Zimmer (The Creator)











MUSIC:


"Bicycle", "Adventures in Adventureland", "Hard Boiled",
"Waltz - Tschikovsky Op. 40", "Chill Wave", "Loopster", "Cherry
Blossom", "Whimsey Groove", "Odyssey", "Quirky Dog", "Screen
Saver", "Crypto", "Nonstop", "Ascending The Vale", "Enter The
Maze", "Tenebrous Bros Carnival - Intermission", "Energizing",
"Divertissement", "Leaving Home", "Hall of the Mountain King",
"Oppressive Gloom", "Magic Scout - Farmhouse", "Monkeys Spinning
Monkeys", "Prelude & Action", "Concentration", "Ever Mindful"
& "Tempting Secrets"


Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)


Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution
4.0


License:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/





"Suspended Animation" by Shane Ivers -
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