Animation Analysis- How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon is a movie that is set on a small island. This means they have to work within a smaller space than normal with the environment. They tackled this very well as they make the characters move around within the scenes without the viewer getting bored with the same scenes.
They do this by showing close up camera shots of the characters so it isn't just jumping from one person to another staying in the same spot, they move the camera around them and zoom in an out to create the composition shots. This way it doesn't get too noisy with motion as it is slowed down, and the scenes move with the characters.
As this movie is set in the Viking era in a different world, the instruments, houses and environments were all jagged and rough. They do well to show this by adding lots of texture and lighting to the scenes so the light bounces off each edge and creates a rough overgrown wild look to the scenery around the character. This adds detail to the scene when the textures can be seen as it adds a more realistic look to the overall piece, which this movie really tries to use a lot of.
Even if at the beginning there wasn't a voice explaining the story of the movie, the viewers would instantly know what period this was supposed to be set and what the movie was about which really makes this movie successful at environmental storytelling as you know what it happening and when before anything begins to happen.
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