How to Train your Dragon manual?

[DarkHelmet]

I did a search and didn't find anything. Has anyone done a Dragon manual from "How to Train your Dragon"? It's worthy of becoming a real prop.

 

[cristobal]

I thought the same while watching the movie...lol!... It has a DaVinci look that is really cool!

 

[Contec]

Maybe someone could take pictures from this 1m1f video - DreamWorks' "How To Train Your Dragon" Animated Webisode - The Night Fury videos

 

[Stefan Jones]

I will probably work on one myself.........I guess , the way I watch movies definetivly has changed :rolleyes

 

[MooCriket]

I would be extremely interested if someone is able to do this and starts a run:thumbsup

 

[DARTH SABER]

I was thinking of making one of these when i first saw the film. After watching it on BluRay I noticed that they only show a few select pages though.
Makes it kind of hard to create the book with only a few reference shots shown.

 

[DarkHelmet]

I would treat it like the grail diary. Most of that was imagined as only a few pages were shown in detail as Indy was quickly flipping through it.

It would be a cool project to expand on.

 

[MooCriket]

I agree that it could easily be expanded upon. My Rorshach's journal did not have much shown in the movie or novel, but I love it non the less.

 

[youngpaddy1]

This would make an excellent real world prop.

Some of the spots shown on dailytv at the moment are just animations of Nico Marlet's pencil drawings, a quick fiddle with the pause button should yield some useable shots of artwork and text from dreamworks' cgi version of the manual.

cheerio

 

[MooCriket]

Yup, and the we can easily put together a nice maual, and use some tea leaves to weather it Found this nice page here:
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=how+to+train+your+dragon+manual#/d2o6nsk

 

[PepMaster]

Wow that's amazing you were able to find that image I know I saw it the other day but lost my link because my 8 year old brother is addicted to HTTYD and I was going to see about printing this out for his wall.

 

[Stormy320]

My two year old has to have the movie on all the time. Be neat to have that book.

 

[PepMaster]

I hope this helps I took the DVD and opened it up on my VLC Media Player, Got to the area where he opens up the book and took a bunch of snapshots with my Media Player. If you need the names of the Dragons he mentions just let me know and I will get them for you, the images are in order of the book. The file is about 16 MB in size.
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[PepMaster]

After talking to my brother me and him are going to start working on the book. He will draw the dragons, I'll do the runes, page weathering and tea leaf dye work, only thing we are unsure of at the moment is what the outer part of the book is made of leather, or another material.

 

[DARTH SABER]

How would you handle the runes?
Would you actually translate english into Futhark, or just just write a bunch of random runes on the page?

 

[PepMaster]

I'm planning to use the screenshots to the best of my advantage, beyond that I'm not sure whether I will translate english to rune or if I will just use random runes.

 

[MooCriket]

^I would say to take the time translating. It will be worth it in the long run, especially if you end up doing a run

 

[DarkHelmet]

Try to find some unique cloth/fiber paper.

 

[PepMaster]

Try to find some unique cloth/fiber paper.

I'm thinking Parchment Paper it was used mostly in the medieval time era which this is probably in that category, but if someone else has a better suggestion as to a paper type I'm open to it, me and him are planning on working on it this weekend. I'm still stuck on what I would use for the cover if you need to see what it looks like it's the first image in my download folder.

 

[PepMaster]

And if you guys want a simple way to tranlate the English to Futhark I'm using this online program Write in Runes