The art of how to train your dragon is a spectacularly designed full color insiders guide to the creative process that went into turning cressida cowells popular book into a feature length animated film featuring more than 350 pieces of development artwork including early character designs story sketches and concept paintings never before released by the studio the book provides an in depth look at the process involved in bringing mythical dragon and viking worlds to life. Don your winged flight suit grab your dragon blade hop on your obedient night fury and get ready for the ride of a lifetime with your favorite dragons and vikings in the latest installment in the how to train your dragon trilogy fans will delight in the discovery of previously unknown dragons the threat of a heartless villain and the . The story launched from the youth targeted original book by cressida cowell how to train your dragon has grown up into a feature length action film which takes the original concept of the book and ages it up to the level of a fantasy adventure film with real world stakes exciting action sequences and more mature character interactions and themes in the film dragons and vikings do not yet coexist as they do in the book but merely terrorize and antagonize each other until hiccup a . That was really sad because the 2nd how to train your dragon movie had by far the highest quantity of different types of dragons in it yet hardly any were featured in the book this hidden world book like the movie is focused more on just a few dragons and the love story relationship between toothless and lightfury along with hiccup and astrid the environment is breathtaking and this