Gift of the Night Fury (deleted) bad dream scene animation attempt

   

First of all, Happy Snoggletog to all fans! My gift this year for you guys is a video that no one has ever done before. Well... as you can see on the thumbnail, this is the deleted dream scene from the short Gift of the Night Fury. Although in behind of scenes video the storyboard was shown, the animation never got done... well until now. Mostly, because I fantasize a lot how that scene would have looked if it had been made and also why such a wonderful scene had to be cut out. If DreamWorks refused to do it, then I'll finish it for them. :)

So the motivation was there, it just had to be done. Yeah... The latter one was a bit harder. This article will give you a glimpse into the background process to see why those 35 seconds cost me dozens of hours.

If you want to know more about the makings of this video, click read more!

Taka Corp. Studio's Toothless and Hiccup statue

   

After more than 6 months of waiting, they finally arrived! There are no words, that could describe how gorgeous, amazing and awesome this masterpiece is!!! It's unboxing was a trill, not mentioning it's assembly! I had to make serious sacrifices to have them here, but everything for them! If you want to see my unboxing, assembly and review of this relic, watch the video! ;)

Update: I managed to get the LED lighting I mentioned in the video. If you haven't seen it yet, it's a bit spoilery, so watch that first please. If you want to see it anyway, click on read more. (Wait for it to load).

Sideshow's The Hidden World Dart, Pouncer and Ruffrunner statue

 

A month and a half later, another box arrived from Sideshow. This time however, it was a quite compact one. Ironically, it contained 3 beautiful Night Light hatchlings, named Dart, Pouncer and Ruffrunner. With them, this set collection is now complete and also their family! If you want to see the unboxing and my review on them, watch the video! :)

Sideshow's The Hidden World Light Fury statue

 

A month later after Toothless arrived, another Fury landed in my room. But this time it was a Light Fury! Oh and a female one! Yes, she came from the Hidden World directly, to expand my collection with her species too! If you want to see how I helped her out from the protective box she camed with and my review about her, watch the video! ;)

8th anniversary of HTTYD (for me)! *Updated* (2024.09.06.)

It's been 8 years since I've met the world of HTTYD and it made me a lifelong enthusiast. So, this red letter day deserves a very special post! I've been considering for some time, that I should make a catalogue of what kind of HTTYD relics I own. Somewhere I found it too personal to show them all, but recently I really felt it's time for it... Come to think of it, this way I don't always have to explain anymore who's interested in them what features or abilities they have. So yes, in this post I'll show you all the pieces I have in my collection. Their number is constantly growing, (especially lately) so it's getting a bit of a mess. For this reason, it would be nice to keep track of where my collection has expanded over the years. The post will be updated when a new artifact arrives!

Click on "read more" to see my collection and their stories.

Sideshow's The Hidden World Toothless statue

 

After 4 years, Sideshow released a new statue of him! This time its theme is the Hidden World and the statue turned out just simply amazing! Also, fortunately I don't need to add anything else in this post that wouldn't be in the video, so if you want to see the whole unboxing procedure and my in-depth review of him, check out the video! :)

8th anniversary of HTTYD 2 + How to Animate Your Dragon!

It's been the 8th year HTTYD 2 is released, so for this occasion, I would like to dedicate a post to honor this day.

As I promised in one of my previous posts, I would like to show you, how I made the animations for my precious Toothless mod for Ark. It's not going to be as technical as it usually is, at least I'm trying to do it, with as little technobabble as possible and I'd let the pictures; or more precisely the gifs do the explanation, rather than me.

Only ONE animation out of the 81 will be analysed, so maybe now you'll have a better idea of how much work is involved in such an unique mod, especially when you have to start from scratch!

Click on "read more", if you want to see the progression!

Hatchday + Blog update

So, it’s my hatchday (the 35th) and as always, since it's a red letter day for me, I want to announce something. This time, (while I’m still working on the other projects) I updated the blog!

As you might noticed, a new icon has been added on the right sidebar. You can switch languages now between English and Hungarian.

Originally, I planned an English page only, but recently there were a few people who got interested in my blog, but they didn’t speak English. For them, I translated the whole blog, so they can read it too. It was a lot of work, but eventually, I’m so happy that I made this update! Very convenient and now I covered everyone. So no more excuses! :)

I’m planning to do a WIP post soon, a very interesting one, but I’ll need a bit more time. It will worth the wait, cause it will be a great opportunity to see really behind the curtains!

Also, I just bought something that is… umm… let’s just say… This will be amongst the most epic ones and also will be very heavy! Gotta wait a few months to arrive, but when it arrives… Oh boy!

But that’s all for now!

See you on the next post!

Riders, we have a problem! (*April fools joke*)

I have really bad news… There is a great possibility, that my Toothless mod for ARK and my other HTTYD projects (also Pacific Wars) has to be postponed, because one of my drives went bad, so there was a great loss of data. (It was more like an archive drive btw, but I also used it for other projects too. Mostly my personal ones, so maybe this is why the fate particularly targeted that drive which stored my mostly beloved projects... Just for an extra kick in the sack, that’s for sure!) I made backups, but the most recent one is around 3 weeks old. The thing is, I progressed a LOT since then! Very heart wrenching to see all that precise work and care go into nothing. Very sad and I feel a part of my soul also died with those files. I don’t know, if I could redo those animations in that quality again from scratch, but I don’t have a chance. This means I have to delay again, at least for a month. I also feel betrayed, because why it has to happen particularly with those projects! I’m broken inside, utterly disappointed in technology and just feel miserable right now. At a point, I know I will start over, but I need some time to get back on my feet.

I have some footages from the original one though. Now, I pondered about that animation sequence and concluded that, maybe I pushed a little too far… and could be a little more "compact" and optimized. So, the new one won't look anywhere near like the old one, so this is why show you before release. At least not everything is lost! (But it's just a bitter solace).

Anyway, click on read more to see the gifs!

Riders of Ark / Toothless mod updates finally!!! (Warning! Contains awesomeness!)

So… After half a year later, a new post! Sadly, it’s becoming a trend, but I hope there will be a time when I can focus on HTTYD-ish topics much more often than I can currently. Dread not, because I have some updates for you! The reason for the hiatus was (as always) work. From September to mid-December, I was working constantly from dawn to midnight without weekends… so you can imagine. Fortunately, I have a month of free time now, so I can do some progress!

Well ladies and gentlemen, around a year or so, I managed to made some major updates with my Toothless mod for ARK, so buckle up for some awesomeness! :D

Click on read more if you wanna see the updates.