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Dragonheart is the first film to use ILM's Caricature software, developed to help lip-sync Draco's animation to Sean Connery's voiceover work; programmer Cary Phillips received the Academy Scientific and Technical Achievement Award for creating the software. The film is notable for having the first realistic CG dragon in film, and Draco is the ...
- Draco's Flying Was Actually A Plane
- Draco Didn't Breathe Fire from His Mouth
- Draco Wasn't Entirely CGI
- Quaid Spent The Last Two Weeks in A Cast
- Draco Was Designed to Look Like Sean Connery
- Liam Neeson Almost Played Bowen
- The Director Played Draco on Set
- It only Took 2 Days to Get The Green Light
- Draco Is on screen For Just 20% of The Movie
- Whoopi Goldberg Was Almost Draco
When actors film in a green screen environment, they spend much of their time dealing with tennis balls atop a stick, or if they're lucky, another actor wearing a green body suit so they can play off of them. When it comes to a gigantic creature like a dragon, things have to be done a little differently. When the dragon flies over a village with hu...
When the filmmakers of Dragonheartdecided to create a unique species of dragon for their movie, they got their inspiration from a number of sources we mentioned, but they made some changes to popular lore. Everyone in the world who has ever heard of a dragon knows they breathe fire. Play D&D or any other fantasy story and it's well-known you have t...
Dragonheartwas made during a time when modern CGI was in its relative infancy. Because of this, animating a giant dragon in the same frames as a human presented a bit of a problem. If they had a ballooned VFX budget exceeding $160 million, the effects crew could have made it work entirely digitally, but this was the '90s and some things had to be d...
It's hard to argue that Dennis Quaid isn't an amazingly talented actor, which is why it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to learn he filmed for several weeks with a broken finger requiring a rather large cast. The veteran actor broke his pinkie fingerin two places on the 92nd day of filming while acting out a sword-fighting scene. He had to wea...
When the filmmakers and VFX artists sat down to design the look for Draco, they all agreed he should mirror Sean Connery's look as much as possible. That isn't to say he should "look" like Connery, but he needed to match his facial expressions. Sean Connery emotes a great deal of expression through his eyebrows and the corners of his mouth, which w...
Movies are rarely cast from a pool of only one choice, and Dragonheart is no exception. Originally, the movie was thought to star a number of players as Bowen with Dennis Quaid standing somewhere around choice #5 or 6. Originally, Patrick Read Johnson pitched Liam Neeson in the role and the producers ate it up. Neeson would have been in the movie w...
Sometimes, it can be difficult for an actor to imagine a character to act alongside or against in a scene if they aren't there. For modern VFX, this is often fixed by people standing around in green bodysuits, but things were a bit different for Dragonheart. In many of the scenes where Bowen and Draco are standing about having a conversation with o...
Pitching a movie to a production studio like Universal is no easy task. The execs hear hundreds of pitches a year and only commit to making a scant few into films. Usually, this process takes a considerable amount of time, but not in the case of Dragonheart. When Patrick Read Johnson took his idea to the studio executives at Universal, they came ba...
For a movie all about a dragon, you might think Draco would be on screen for the majority of the time. That's not how the movie played out, but considering how much it cost to animate the character, it's pretty surprising just how much time he spent on screen. The movie's runtime was 103 minutes, but Draco was only on-screen for 23 minutes in total...
Looking back on the movie more than two decades later, it's hard to consider anyone voicing Draco other than Sean Connery. The man was made to play a dragon and thinking of someone else in the role is almost impossible. Back when the movie was being set up, the producers were thinking of all sorts of people to take on the role of the dragon. One na...
Jun 10, 2021 · Cohen and Tippett assembled a library of facial references from the star’s previous films for the animated dragon and ILM’s Caricature software was developed to sync up the effects and Connery’s performance.
May 19, 2024 · A fantasy adventure about a down-and-out knight (played by Dennis Quaid) who forms an unlikely partnership with a cantankerous dragon named Draco (voiced by Sean Connery), Dragonheart required a fully-CG creature who could speak with the depth and emotion of a leading dramatic character.
May 31, 2016 · The film about an English knight, Bowen (Dennis Quaid), who meets the last of the dragons, Draco (voiced by Sean Connery), was not a box office smash, but is fondly remembered for its...
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Dragonheart is a 1996 fantasy adventure film directed by Rob Cohen. It stars Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, and the voice of Sean Connery. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and various other awards in 1996 and 1997.
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Jan 25, 2024 · In the movie of Dragonheart, this very issue dogs Bowen, who fills his heart with greed, lust and even despair. How does he re-ignite virtue in his heart? Well this is one that he doesn’t succeed in doing so almost until the complete end.
