DD: The well-fountain-head of the dragons who are in the motion picture started in the book, of order, but in reality it was Nico Marlet, who also did designs for Kung Fu Panda . We have seven dragons in the silver screen, five of which are his designs. He has piles of drawings in his stay, no kidding, about two feet thick of other dragons that he drew. It's infinite. We realized we had an occasion in this large screen to do something that had not been done before -- not condign multiple breeds of dragons but distinct personalities.
DD: Each of them was based on animals we allow in the subhuman principality. For prototype the gronkles, the big, fat, drop-truck-like dragon, was based on the walrus and has walrus-variety behavior, deceit around in packs and being fain and grumpy. And then the nadders, the despondent ones with the yellow spikes, they're very repeat-like, and they have bird-like actions. Toothless is very feline. But he has dog in him, too. He's based in part on the moonless panther, so he has mammalian qualities to him. One of the characters has two heads and is very viper-like and slithery. So every one of them had an zoological indication to it, and that influenced its behavior both in headliner and drift.
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