How To Train Your Dragon
- Studio
- DreamWorks Animation, Mad Hatter Entertainment, Mad Hatter Films, Vertigo Entertainment
- Animation studio
- DreamWorks Animation, Pacific Data Images
- Distributor
- Paramount Pictures, Paramount Distribution
Synopsis
Meet Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, heir of the Viking chiefdom, but a boy with one very big problem: a hero he is not. How to Train Your Dragon is the riotous story of Hiccup's quest to hunt down the fiercest dragon, bring it into submission, and- hopefully- pass his initiation. Instead, he ends up with the smallest, most ornery dragon- it's even toothless! Thus begins the hijinx of the world's most lovable, unlikely hero and a most reluctant "beast." Hiccup, a Viking teenager, doesn't exactly fit in with his tribe's long-standing tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup's world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.
Characters
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Stoick the Vast, Gobber the Belch, Astrid Hofferson, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Ack, Starkard, Hoark the Haggard, Phlegma the Fierce, Spitelout
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chris Sanders, Dean Deblois
Producing
- Producer
- Kristine Belson
- Executive Producer
- Bonnie Arnold
- Co-Producers
- Roy Lee, Doug Davison, Michael A. Connolly
Writing
- Writer
- Chris Sanders, Dean Deblois
- Based On The Book By
- Cressida Cowell
Animation
- Animator
- Kevin Andrus, Mike Beaulieu, Julien Bocabeille, Wee Brian, Laurent Caneiro, Katrina Conwright, Melanie Cordan, David Couchariere, Bill Diaz, Adam Dotson, Cameron Fielding, Tomoyuki Harashima, Leif Jeffers, Morgan R. Kelly, Scott Lafleur, Eric Lees, Steven J. Meyer, Fredrik Nilsson, Irene Parkins, Gabriele Pennacchioli, Ron Pucherelli, Sean Sexton, Mike Stern, Dane Stogner, Adam Strick, Alexis Wanneroy, Greg Whittaker, Scott Wright
- Supervising Animators
- Cassidy Curtis, Steven Hornby, Kristof Serrand, David Torres
- Supervising Animator (“Toothless”)
- Gabe Hordos
- Effects Animators
- Brett Miller, Sheldon Serrao
- Character Effects Animators
- Dugan Beach, Chris De St Jeor, Ken Faiman, Jeffrey Martin, Noah Peterson, Amy Taylor, John Truong
- Visual Effects Animator
- Stephen Wood
- Head of Character Animation
- Simon Otto
- Senior Character Animators
- Carlos M. Rosas, David Stodolny
- Crowd Animation Lead
- Kevin Vassey
- Crowd Animators
- Jack Geckler, Tanner Owen, Todd Zullo
- Animation Rig Engineers
- Ron Griswold, Pia Miniati
- Animation Engineer
- David I. White
- Animation Technical Director
- Scott Douglas
- Head of Story
- Alessandro Carloni
- Story Artists
- Sharon Colman, Todd Kurosawa, Jenny Lerew, Tom Owens, Scott Santoro, Ryan Savas
- Layout Supervisors
- Melissa Beery, Gil Zimmerman
- Layout Artists
- Michael Condro, Mick De Falco, Todd Erickson, Juan Gonzalez, Megan Orosz, Chris Stover, Ty Thomson, Pete Upson, David Patrick Valera, Rhiannon Leffanta Wilhelmi, Hock Wong
- Rough Layout Artists
- Hamilton Lewis, Matthew Schmidt
- Lead Layout Artist
- Robert Edward Crawford
- Digital Layout Artists
- Matt Lee, Andrew Titcomb
- Final Layout Artist
- Jon Gutman
- Character Designer
- Ricardo F. Delgado
- Cloth Developer
- Kavita Khosla
- Previs Artist
- Aaron Weldon
Voices
- Voice
- Jay Baruchel (Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III), Gerard Butler (Stoick the Vast), Craig Ferguson (Gobber the Belch), America Ferrera (Astrid Hofferson), Jonah Hill (Snotlout), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fishlegs), T.J. Miller (Tuffnut), Kristen Wiig (Ruffnut), Robin Atkin Downes (Ack), Philip McGrade (Starkard), Kieron Elliott (Hoark the Haggard), Ashley Jensen (Phlegma the Fierce), David Tennant (Spitelout)
Music
- Music
- John Powell
- Additional Music
- James McKee Smith, Paul Mounsey
- Music Editor
- Adam Milo Smalley
- Assistant Music Editor
- Scott Johnson
- Preview Music Editor
- Tom Kramer
- Music Manager
- Charlene Ann Huang
- Orchestrators
- Angus O'Sullivan, John Ashton Thomas
- Score Engineer and Mixer
- Nick Wollage
- Score Mixer
- Shawn Murphy
- Assistant Score Mixer
- Marc Viner
- Score Production Assistant
- John Traunwieser
- Marimba and Percussion Sampling
- Beth Caucci
- Midi Orchestration and Programming
- Michael John Mollo
- Soundtrack
- Varèse Sarabande
Editing
- Editor
- Darren Holmes
- Editorial Coordinator
- Daniel Hashimoto
- Associate Editors
- Mary Blee, Susan Fitzer
- First Assistant Editor
- Stephen L. Meek
- Assistant Editors
- Robert W. Hedland, Maurissa Horwitz
- Additional Editor
- Lynn Hobson
- Editor (HD)
- David Teller
- Colorist
- Jeff Olm
- Color Timer
- Jim Passon
Crew
- Production Design
- Kathy Altieri
- Art Direction
- Pierre-Olivier Vincent
- Visual Development Artists
- John-Eric Cardon de Lichtbuer, Nicolas Weis, Michael Yamada, Melchior Zwyer
- Storyboard Artists
- Kevin Harkey, John Puglisi
- Additional Storyboard
- Robert Porter
- Art Researcher
- Caprice Ann Ridgeway
- Research Assistant
- Jonathan B. Lee
- Production Managers
- Jennifer Dahlman, Lori Korngiebel, Craig Rittenbaum
- Production Supervisors
- Tracey Michelle Arnold, Jenne Guerra, Brent Hutchins, Catherine A. Jones, Michael Lynn, Kelly Matthews, Robyn Mesher, Steven Schweickart, April Struebing, John Swanson, Larry Weisberg
- Post-Production Supervisor
- Kate Crossley
- Supervising Sound Editor
- Jonathan Null
- Assistant Supervising Sound Editor
- Brian Chumney
- Sound Designer
- Randy Thom
- Assistant Sound Designer
- Leff Lefferts
- Supervising Sound Mixer
- Randy Thom
- Sound Recordists
- Nia Hansen, Ronald G. Roumas
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer
- Gary Rizzo
- Sound Effects Editor
- Colette Dahanne
- Assistant Sound Effects Editor
- Jeremy Bowker
- Original Dialogue Mixers
- Roy Latham, Carlos Sotolongo
- Additional Dialogue Recording Engineer
- Dominic Boucher
- Additional Re-Recording Mixer
- Colette Dahanne
- Supervising Foley Editor
- Pascal Garneau
- Foley Recordist
- Sean England
- ADR Editor
- Chris Gridley
- Loop Group Editor
- Richard Quinn
- ADR Loop Group
- Suzan Crowley
- Surfacing Technical Director
- Jennifer J. Pan
- Surfacing Artists
- Fernanda S. Abarca, Nathalie Buce, Tony Davidson, Paolo deGuzman, Sandy Dong, Sully Jacome-Wilkes, Soo Jin King
- Lead Effects Developer
- Alex Ongaro
- Effects Developers
- Motohisa Adachi, Julie Anne Brame, Tim Keenan
- Lead Lighter and Compositor
- Jerome Platteaux
- Lead Lighters
- Gianni Aliotti, Michael P. Hamler, Michel Kinfoussia, Igor Lodeiro, Eli Rod
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Craig Ring
- Visual Effects Leads
- Louis Flores, Andre LeBlanc
- Visual Effects Artists
- Evrim Akyilmaz, John Allwine, Benjamin Andersen, Greg Beckman, Robert Chen, Brian C. Davis, Tyson Erze, Landon Gray, Andy Hayes, Robert Kopinsky, Kurt Phillips, Celambarasan Ramasamy, Lauren Simpson, Karen Smith, Stuart Tett, Katie Van Maanen
- Lead Technical Directors
- Robert Armstrong, Allen Stetson
- Head of Effects
- Matt Baer
- Paint Fix Artists
- Matthew Beightol, Craig Cannon, Bill Gumina, Michelle Kater
- Paint Fix Artists (PDI/DreamWorks)
- Jasper M. Baltzersen, Michael Baula, Melissa D. Moss
- Stereo Paint Fix Artist
- Mauricio Valderrama
- Recruiter (DWA)
- Kelly Barschig
- Character Technical Directors
- Alena Bejenarou, Bart Coughlin, Gilbert Davoud, Peter Farson, Mariette Marinus, Cliff B. Mitchell, Hongseo Park, Sven Pohle, Matt Steele, David Walden, Brent Watkins, Guido Zimmermann
- Character Technical Director (Pre-Production)
- John Yoon
- Senior FX R&D Engineer
- Silviu Borac
- Effects Engineers
- Mark T. Carlson, Jim Leuper, Abhik Pramanik
- Technical Directors
- David S. Cheng, T.J. Jackson
- Lead Lighting Artist
- Sebastien Chort
- Lighting Artists
- Mark A. Decker, Kurt Kaminski, Blaine Kennison, Jonathan Fletcher Moore, Hannah Sherman
- Lighting Technical Directors
- Chris Armsden, Alex Gurevich, Steven Knipping
- Lighting Technical Assistants
- Justin DeCell, Navjit Singh Gill, Eric Walters, Eugene Wen
- Lighters
- George Ho, Cindy Hong, David Jordan, Ken Lam, Brock J. Stearn
- Lighter (DWA)
- John J.S. Lee
- Digital Artists
- Michael Clive, Loren Van Wiel
- Digital Effects Artists
- Cassandra Fanning, Erin Lehmkühl, Andrew Pungprakearti, Britton Taylor
- Character Effects Supervisor
- Damon Crowe
- Character Effects Technical Directors
- Ashraf Ghoniem, Matthew Leishman
- Effects Technical Directors
- Kolja Erman, Adam Gaige, David D. Wilson, Youxi Woo
- Effects Artists
- Jason Mayer, Curt Stewart
- Crowds Supervisor
- Sean Fennell
- Crowds Artists
- Erin J. Elliott, Jason P. Weber
- Crowd Technical Director
- Salvatore Richichi Jr
- Modeling Supervisor
- Matthew Paulson
- Senior Modeler
- Luis Labrador
- Modelers
- Charles Ellison, Ardie Johnson, Jeff Wagner
- CG Supervisors
- Gaku Nakatani, Ronman Yiu Yan Ng, Bert Poole, Aaron Smith
- Computer Systems Engineer
- Greg Gibson
- Pipeline Engineer
- Drew Perttula
- Matte Painting Supervisor
- Apryl Knobbe
- Matte Painters
- Louis Katz, Sameer Shah
- Media Tools and Post-Production Technology Engineer
- Ori Neidich
- Compositor
- Jerome Platteaux
- Rigging Coordinator
- Charlie Petrek
- Special Sequence Designed and Produced By
- Shine
- System Administrators
- Rain Angeles, Bart Feliciano
- Engineering System Administrators
- Balaji Alahari, Greg Bulman, Scott Chapin, John Detke, Sean Ellis, Marc Fleury, Mark Lelles, Rich Marco, Rezk Mekhael, Brandon Miles, John O'Sullivan, Raffi Parikian, Daniel Rich, Stephen E. Ross, Tim Toll, Richard Williamson
- Operations System Administration
- Dj Downey, Alireza Estakhrian, Scott Kilty, Todd Maugh
- Production Engineering Supervisor
- Holly Allen
- Director of Research and Development
- Andrew Pearce
- Research and Development
- Steve Baker, Will Bilton, Reid Gershbein
- Technical Resource Administrators
- Nicholas Bencriscutto, Jorge Heredia, Jon Leibowitz, Gemma Ross, Cathy Sitzes, Casey Sword
- Production Coordinators
- Matthew C. Campbell, Elizabeth C. Camp, G. Mark Fitzgerald, Joseph Izzo, T. Patrick Johnson, Dave Kim, Peter McCown, Shane Mulholland, Charlie Petrek, Karen L. Whitaker Dryden
- Production Assistants
- Adam DesCombes, Audrey Holland, Andrew Marshel
- Story Production Assistant
- Sean Cole
- Visual Consultant
- Roger Deakins
- Production Engineers
- Kwesi Davis, Jayson DeLancey, Mark Jackels, Michael J. Pan, Selim Tuvi, Laura Wood
- Interns
- Peter Duong, Aaron Notestine
- Voiceover (International Version)
- Jonas Fisch
- Technical Resource Supervisor
- Juli Gumbiner
- Unit Publicist
- David Hail
- Post-Production Office Supervisor
- Wayne Hellinger
- Script Coodinators
- Amanda Deering Jones, Jabari Phillips
- Story Coodinator
- Scott Sakamoto
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Jason Kankiewicz
- Alliance Manager
- Hans Ku
- Chief Technology Officer
- Ed Leonard
- Technical Lead
- Nicholas Long
- Editorial Systems Engineer
- Paul Parmer
- Special Sequence Designer
- Michael Riley
- Manager of Digital Resources
- Mark M. Tokunaga
Companies and other credits
- ADR: DIVE
- Stereoscopic Supervisor: Phil "Captain 3D" McNally
Production notes
Soundtrack: "Sticks and Stones," Written by Jon Thor Birgisson, Performed by Jónsi, Courtesy of XL Recordings.
Awards
Academy Award Nominee, Best Animated Feature Film, 2010.
Nominee, Annie Award, Best Animated Feature, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Animated Effects in an Animated Production, Jason Mayer, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Animated Effects in an Animated Production, Brett Miller, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Character Animation in a Feature Production, Gabe Hordos, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Character Animation in a Feature Production, Jakob Hjort Jensen, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Character Animation in a Feature Production, David Torres, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Character Design in a Feature Production, Nico Marlet, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Directing in a Feature Production, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Music in a Feature Production, John Powell, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Production Design in a Feature Production, Pierre Olivier Vincent, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Storyboarding in a Feature Production, Alessandro Carloni, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Storyboarding in a Feature Production, Tom Owens, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Voice Acting in a Feature Production, Jay Baruchel as Hiccup, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Voice Acting in a Feature Production, Gerard Butler as Stoick, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Writing in a Feature Production, William Davies, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, 2011
Nominee, Annie Award, Best Animated Feature, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Animated Effects in an Animated Production, Jason Mayer, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Animated Effects in an Animated Production, Brett Miller, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Character Animation in a Feature Production, Gabe Hordos, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Character Animation in a Feature Production, Jakob Hjort Jensen, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Character Animation in a Feature Production, David Torres, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Character Design in a Feature Production, Nico Marlet, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Directing in a Feature Production, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Music in a Feature Production, John Powell, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Production Design in a Feature Production, Pierre Olivier Vincent, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Storyboarding in a Feature Production, Alessandro Carloni, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Storyboarding in a Feature Production, Tom Owens, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Voice Acting in a Feature Production, Jay Baruchel as Hiccup, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Voice Acting in a Feature Production, Gerard Butler as Stoick, 2011.
Nominee, Annie Award, Writing in a Feature Production, William Davies, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, 2011
