Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Viking Food

I worked in the story department on "How to Train Your Dragon" but got asked at 1 stage of production to come up with some ideas for what the Vikings would eat around the campfire. I'm proud to say that my Chicken Carcass made it to the final film! I know every one raves about the flying scenes and the Hiccup/Toothless relationship but I'm pretty sure that the movie is at 98% positive reviews due to the shot of Gobber eating this delicious looking bird!





31 Comments:

At 4:32 PM, Blogger Scott Watanabe said...

These are hilarious. Great job!

 
At 6:38 PM, Blogger michaelamos said...

Hahaha! Your right - but it would have been 100% if they used the dismembered snout and trotter skewer or the strange looking unborn chicken fetus skewer (I think I ate one of those in Malaysia once!) you have there as well!!

Great drawings!
Michael

 
At 8:03 PM, Blogger Todd Oman said...

Well one of these days they need to make you head of character design for a film. Your designs are some of the best stuff out there.

 
At 8:12 PM, Blogger Zach Bellissimo said...

Great designs! Really top notch.

Makes me hungry too.

 
At 10:22 PM, Blogger Mathieu Beaulieu said...

Yummy!
I like the toad

 
At 11:56 PM, Blogger Elsa Chang said...

Haha I've got to say when that scene came up I couldn't take my eyes off that bird.

 
At 2:39 AM, Blogger Scribbler said...

wow! great work!

 
At 5:44 AM, Blogger Evan Bonifacio said...

haha the frogs pretty funny. :)

 
At 8:21 AM, Blogger DJ Zutkovic said...

haha its all you man! Great work! Delicious!

 
At 8:48 AM, Blogger Justin Rodrigues said...

These are awesome and so was the movie. Great stuff Ben!

 
At 8:57 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

That's funny, squirrels DO have rat tails under all that cute fluffiness. I never considered that before.

 
At 9:12 AM, Blogger jimbodraw said...

Nice work Ben - fun stuff!

 
At 10:34 AM, Blogger T Arthur Smith said...

It's great to see you posting again. I found your blog off the Conga blog, and I've been in love with the work ever since. You're incredible with characters, and I liked the tutorials as well. I just saw How To Train Your Dragon, and it was excellent. I can't wait to see more work. Take care!

 
At 7:26 PM, Blogger Ryan Green said...

Man, these are nasty! Great job! :)

 
At 12:07 PM, Blogger Craig Church said...

Love the boar kabob. Eyeballs as olives would make the perfect Viking martini.

 
At 12:42 AM, Blogger Manoj a menon said...

ben..
i saw your names in the end titles and went 'wow' and then'jeez i havent checked his blog for a while'.
cool stuff you have got here..

i really liked the dragons
cool stuff and such a simple story.. atleast for people like me who doesnt go to a movie hall for enlightenment.

do feel free to check my works at
www.noisefromfuture.blogspot.com

hey, can you let me know which were your designs?

rgds,
manoj

 
At 7:19 AM, Blogger Chris Houghton said...

WOW! Incredible stuff Ben! So funny-- there are too many to comment on!

 
At 7:28 AM, Blogger Lucas Ferreyra said...

HA! GREAT WORK!

 
At 9:45 AM, Blogger Owen Flanagan said...

Excellent designs Ben, The raven is particularly nice.

 
At 11:41 AM, Blogger OV! said...

those are amazing man!

good grief.

>oVi

 
At 12:05 PM, Blogger Doron Meir said...

Wonderfully gruesome :)

 
At 11:31 PM, Blogger Abz said...

haha..very well illustrated!

 
At 10:42 PM, Blogger Dave Pimentel said...

ahhh the good ol' days. I remember everyone crying over the little chickie. ha ha

 
At 10:49 PM, Blogger Barry said...

These are just awesome! Tons of fun.

 
At 10:24 AM, Blogger Bryan Wynia said...

Ha, thats awesome.

 
At 9:04 PM, Blogger Marcelo Vignali said...

Hey, it's what I remembered about the movie.

 
At 11:40 AM, Blogger Nathan Lindsay said...

They only picked the bird? These are ALL hilarious.

 
At 1:29 PM, Blogger Ridd Sorensen said...

awesome designs! really like the crow on a stick drawing. The chicken carcass though is what made the movie for me ;)

 
At 7:08 AM, Blogger kanishk said...

These are hilarious. Great job!

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At 1:16 PM, Blogger Giselle said...

Oh wow! these are aamaazing! i dont know which animal i like the best...so horribly grisly! :D

 
At 6:52 AM, Blogger Abz said...

Really well done man- very very original! :D

 

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