🐉 How to Train Your Dragon – A Career Highlight

I had the privilege of leading the facial team at Framestore, with primary responsibility for Toothless, the Zippleback, and the digi-doubles. It was an incredible, highly collaborative process with Kayn Garcia (Animation Supervisor) and the animation team as we explored personality, performance, and dragon expression together.

Huge thanks to Markus Schmidt for supervising the facial work and to Tamas Kurdi for leading the modeling team.

A special shoutout to Ecem Okumus — we spent countless hours tackling scale design, mouth and eye shape . Her work brought amazing detail and life to Toothless.

I also built the foundational shapes for the Monstrous Nightmare (finished by Ronan Carr Fanning) and the Gronckle (started by Ecem, completed by Stefan Mayer).

This project reminded me why I love what I do: collaboration, problem-solving, and bringing beloved characters to life.