“Hopefully We Get Away With [It]”: How To Train Your Dragon’s Live-Action Toothless Kept 1 Key Element Of His Animated Design Despite It Being Totally Unrealistic
They found a compromise by making other elements surrounding the eyes more convincing. But the smaller we made them, the less appealing and the less Toothless he became, very quickly. I hope that’s the end result. I believe that character could exist alongside the other animals and the humans.' DeBlois and his creative team managed to balance the realistic depiction with the distinguishing quirkiness from the animated film. I can’t imagine what Toothless would look like with normally-sized eyes....