Another Poll !

Another poll !

A little late for dinner over here, but nonetheless finished!

These books, guys... This poor wet Viking, and the broken world he loves...

The song is "My lovely isle of Innisfree" and this version (which is my favorite) is sung by Joe Miller of The Irish Rovers. And the rest of the song fits Hiccup really well, but I didn't feel like doing the whole thing. I may yet, someday :]

History is a set of repeating cycles...

Yes ! This is so true, and he’d do it as well.

If Movie Hiccup met Book Hiccup…

Ooo that’s such a good idea to split the books like that ! It’s been playing on my mind a bit on how to do that, but that idea would work really well. Especially with two seasons, and one ending on a cliffhanger.

Also yes, really want the easter eggs to be a big part in it. Basically symbolism you’d only catch the second time (or I guess if you’ve read the books :D).

Yeah, unfortunately I am just one person, so all I can do rn is just work on it as a small fan made thing. But if it gets bigger I’d love to team up with other fans to help bring this project to life !

So, I’ve been a fan of the httyd books for as long as I could read and I’ve always been slightly (hugely) disappointed that there hasn’t been a faithful adaptation. Am I the only one ?

Anyway so I started brainstorming ideas of if there was an adaptation what it would look like, - feel free to add on more this is just what I have so far.

- Becoming a Hero the Hard Way -

Ideas:

- Sketchy art-style with lots of moving lines and colours - think spider-verse, PIB the last wish, arcane

- Could use 3D models with an overlay of sketch lines and lineart

- Use audiobook dialogue as audio, probably just the talking scenes, for everything else will be drawn at least for now while it’s still quite small

- Keep character versions as close to the books as possible, might have to make them more realistic looking depending on the final animation style

- Characters who are more ‘stable’ have more fps, whereas characters like Alvin who are more unstable have fewer fps and are more janky and unsettlingly animated

- Maybe use slight colour filters on certain scenes to symbolise relevance to books/dragon time prophecy eg book 5 - orange, book 2 - navy

- Use sound for symbolism or themes for dragon time prophecy anytime it is mentioned/ foreshadowed

- Either make movies or seasons/series ? - if series maybe join two books together until like 10 ?

- Could have 4 trilogies/sagas 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 ? Be named different things , could play on word for the prophecy ?

- 1st - training your dragon / httyd?

- 2nd - the quest

- 3rd - the prophecy

- 4th - the dragon jewel

- Or have two 6 part seasons ?

This is all quite rough right now but I just wanted to put it out there in case anyone else is interested ?

I would like to seperate it a but from the movies so I was thinking of the name Becoming a Hero the Hard Way as that’s quite relevant throughout the books.

And I thought a more 2D animation style would work, I said above maybe something like spider verse or even just hand drawn, I’m not completely sure, I’ll have to do more research.

So yeah please tell me what you think !

Okay, I’ve seen a couple of these go around and I’m curious about it myself so..