{"id":738,"date":"2010-10-16T10:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T14:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=738"},"modified":"2010-10-16T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T14:10:14","slug":"how-to-train-your-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"How to Train Your Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002ZG97Z6?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wizardwalk-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B002ZG97Z6\">How to Train Your Dragon<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B002ZG97Z6\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> came out on blu-ray yesterday.  I missed seeing it in theaters, looks like it would&#8217;ve been fun to see in 3D.  Anyway, I had heard great things about it from other animation students and it didn&#8217;t disappoint; it&#8217;s a really fun film with some great flying dragon epicness.  It also has the best film score I&#8217;ve heard this year, as you can hear by this sample (if it hasn&#8217;t been removed for copyright violation yet), music by John Powell:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aJBpLQrBJXM?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s just a little talk with some animators from the film who graduated from the animation school I&#8217;m currently attending, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animationmentor.com\/\">Animation Mentor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IIJ99Sns11I?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakingofanimation.com\/2010\/06\/podcast-how-to-train-your-dragon\/\">podcast interview with the directors of the film<\/a>.  Fun stuff!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003DZX44I?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wizardwalk-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B003DZX44I\">Beauty and the Beast<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wizardwalk-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B003DZX44I\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> also recently came out on blu-ray, and it looks fantastic; blu-ray is truly the way all 2D animated films should be seen.  The clarity of the drawings are just awesome.  You can really see the pencil markyness like never before.  And the backgrounds also look especially vivid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Train Your Dragon came out on blu-ray yesterday. I missed seeing it in theaters, looks like it would&#8217;ve been fun to see in 3D. Anyway, I had heard great things about it from other animation students and it didn&#8217;t disappoint; it&#8217;s a really fun film with some great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[220,99],"tags":[219,302,300,301],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-bU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}