HTTYD Storyboard

An animatic of an unused storyboard for ’How To Train Your Dragon’, illustrated by Darren Webb. “Many moons ago, long before Photoshop, Cintiq tablets, and After Effects, there . Way back in 2005 storyboards were drawn on paper. Shocking, I know. Now, I love drawing on the computer but, there’s something much less fussy about a pad of paper and a china marker. No frills. Here’s a selection of boards I’d drawn for the first version of How to Train Your Dragon. It’s not a whole sequence, just a selection of panels from one that I liked after not having seen them in almost a decade. In the sequence, Hiccup and all the other kids are banished from the viking island for some reason or another along with their dragons. While fighting their way through a storm and Hiccup jumping into the ocean to save the very tiny Toothless, their boat runs aground of a sleeping giant sea dragon and get pulled along in the storm. (It’s just clusters of a few sequential panels and then some one off’s.)“ ~ Darren