Using this free dragon 3D model, I used Photoshop to recolor the skin and brought it back into Maya to animate. I spent nearly 45 hours key frame animation, and making changes with help from my animation professor over the course of 3 months. There are 2 different flying cycles used in the video, one that shows the dragon trying to gain altitude above the clouds and a more relaxed cycle that he goes into when they are just flying straight. I procedurally generated the castle tops in blender and brought them into Maya, rendered the castles and dragons on different layers, and composited with cloud and background footage in Adobe After Effects
