the way how to train your dragon completely ruined my internal scale for good and unique dragon design for the rest of time
dreamworks was confronted with 2 really important questions regarding creature design in how to train your dragon. one: “how do we make the dragon scary but loveable?” two: “how do we make the dragon- a creature that’s nearly a millennia old- fresh…but still recognizable as a dragon?” and they literally just went “cat” and it WORKED