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How to Train Your Dragon

Production · 2025 · Framestore · Houdini · RBD · Water

Framestore’s live-action How to Train Your Dragon.

What I did

  • Debris · the dragon hitting the cliffs: RBD and smoke
  • Water splashes · FLIP and whitewater, plus a lot of post-sim tweaks
  • Sand · Vellum grains
A black dragon gliding past a waterfall over a mossy cliff

Shots from How to Train Your Dragon

  • Sand sim as the dragon crashes onto the beach — How to Train Your Dragon (Framestore, 2025)

  • Water splash as the dragon lands in the lake — How to Train Your Dragon (Framestore, 2025)

  • Small fish splashes by the resting dragon — How to Train Your Dragon (Framestore, 2025)

  • Debris: the dragon hitting the cliffs — How to Train Your Dragon (Framestore, 2025)

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