How to Train Your Dragon Featurette Creating Toothless (2025)

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00:00Toothless

00:07Toothless really started from Cressida Cowell's books.

00:09He was the pipsqueak runt of the dragon world.

00:17When we decided to reimagine Toothless,

00:20we thought we should probably make that dragon powerful and elegant.

00:27And also...

00:30kind of cuddly and cute.

00:37We wanted people to see their pets in Toothless.

00:42They initially looked at salamanders as his design,

00:45but very much Black Panther in terms of his behavior.

00:53A lot of the stuff we're looking at is cat videos.

00:56And my dog is a reference for me all the time.

01:06Hey!

01:07Oh, come on!

01:08Just quiet!

01:09The hope was that as people watched the movie, they would realize,

01:13oh, my cat does that.

01:17Or I've seen my dog do that exact same thing.

01:19Who's a good boy?

01:20Oh, he's a good boy!

01:21Oh, okay!

01:22Yeah?

01:23You itchy?

01:24Is that this boy?

01:28By the end, you feel like,

01:29wow, I really want a Night Fury myself.

01:49A good boy.

01:50I'm scared.

01:51How are you?

01:52How are you?

01:53I'm scared.

01:54So what's that light?

01:55I'm scared.

01:56I can't see you there.

01:57I'm scared.