How to Train Your Dragon (or HTTYD) is an American media franchise
from DreamWorks Animation and loosely based on the eponymous series of
children's books by British author Cressida Cowell. It consists of
three feature films: How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train
Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
(2019). The franchise also consists of five short films: Legend of the
Boneknapper Dragon (2010), Book of Dragons (2010), Gift of the Night
Fury (2011), Dawn of the Dragon Racers (2014) and How to Train Your
Dragon: Homecoming (2019). A television series following the events of
the first film, DreamWorks Dragons, began airing on Cartoon Network in
September 2012. The first and second seasons were titled Dragons:
Riders of Berk and Dragons: Defenders of Berk respectively. With the
third season onwards, the series moved to Netflix and was retitled
Dragons: Race to the Edge, where it served as a prequel to the second
film and was released from June 2015 to February 2018.The franchise
follows the adventures of a young Viking named Hiccup Horrendous
Haddock III, son of Stoick the Vast, leader of the Viking island of
Berk. Although initially dismissed as a clumsy and underweight misfit,
he soon becomes renowned as a courageous expert in dragons, beginning
with Toothless, a member of the rare Night Fury breed as his flying
mount and his closest companion. Together with his friends, he manages
the village's allied dragon population in defense of his home as
leader of a flying corps of dragon riders. Upon becoming leaders of
their kind, Hiccup and Toothless are forced to make choices that will
truly ensure peace between people and dragons. Dean DeBlois, the
director of the trilogy, described its story as "Hiccup's coming of
age," taking a span of five years between the first and second film,
and a year between the second and third film.The film series has been
highly acclaimed, with each film nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Animated Feature, in addition to the first film's nomination for
the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
from DreamWorks Animation and loosely based on the eponymous series of
children's books by British author Cressida Cowell. It consists of
three feature films: How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train
Your Dragon 2 (2014) and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
(2019). The franchise also consists of five short films: Legend of the
Boneknapper Dragon (2010), Book of Dragons (2010), Gift of the Night
Fury (2011), Dawn of the Dragon Racers (2014) and How to Train Your
Dragon: Homecoming (2019). A television series following the events of
the first film, DreamWorks Dragons, began airing on Cartoon Network in
September 2012. The first and second seasons were titled Dragons:
Riders of Berk and Dragons: Defenders of Berk respectively. With the
third season onwards, the series moved to Netflix and was retitled
Dragons: Race to the Edge, where it served as a prequel to the second
film and was released from June 2015 to February 2018.The franchise
follows the adventures of a young Viking named Hiccup Horrendous
Haddock III, son of Stoick the Vast, leader of the Viking island of
Berk. Although initially dismissed as a clumsy and underweight misfit,
he soon becomes renowned as a courageous expert in dragons, beginning
with Toothless, a member of the rare Night Fury breed as his flying
mount and his closest companion. Together with his friends, he manages
the village's allied dragon population in defense of his home as
leader of a flying corps of dragon riders. Upon becoming leaders of
their kind, Hiccup and Toothless are forced to make choices that will
truly ensure peace between people and dragons. Dean DeBlois, the
director of the trilogy, described its story as "Hiccup's coming of
age," taking a span of five years between the first and second film,
and a year between the second and third film.The film series has been
highly acclaimed, with each film nominated for the Academy Award for
Best Animated Feature, in addition to the first film's nomination for
the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
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