How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) - Credits and Details

How To Train Your Dragon 2 Credits and Details

Directed by
	Dean DeBlois
Written by
	Dean DeBlois	...	written by
	Cressida Cowell	...	based upon the "How to Train Your Dragon" book series by
Cast
	Jay Baruchel	...	Hiccup (voice)
	Cate Blanchett	...	Valka (voice)
	Gerard Butler	...	Stoick (voice)
	Craig Ferguson	...	Gobber (voice)
	America Ferrera	...	Astrid (voice)
	Jonah Hill	...	Snotlout (voice)
	Christopher Mintz-Plasse	...	Fishlegs (voice)
	T.J. Miller	...	Tuffnut (voice)
	Kristen Wiig	...	Ruffnut (voice)
	Djimon Hounsou	...	Drago (voice)
	Kit Harington	...	Eret (voice)
	Kieron Elliott	...	Hoark the Haggard (voice)
	Philip McGrade	...	Starkard (voice)
	Andrew Ableson	...	Ug (voice)
	Gideon Emery	...	Teeny (voice)
	Simon Kassianides	...	No-Name (voice)
	Randy Thom	...	Toothless (voice)
Uncredited Cast
	Julian Stone	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Produced by
	Bonnie Arnold	...	producer
	Michael A. Connolly	...	co-producer
	Doug Davison	...	co-producer
	Dean DeBlois	...	executive producer
	Aaron Dem	...	associate producer
	Lisa J. Freberg	...	marketing media producer
	Kendra Haaland	...	co-producer
	Roy Lee	...	co-producer
	Chris Sanders	...	executive producer
	Kate Spencer	...	co-executive producer
Original Music by
	John Powell	...	music by
Special Effects by
	Tobin Jones	...	lead effects animator
Visual Effects by
	Fernanda S. Abarca	...	surfacing artist
	Motohisa Adachi	...	effects developer
	Kristi Valk Almassizadeh	...	matte painter
	Dustin Anderson	...	visual effects artist
	Manuel Aparicio	...	animator
	William E. Arias	...	lighting artist
	Mira Arte	...	character effects artist
	Nicholas Augello	...	character effects artist
	David Badgerow	...	final layout artist
	Stephen Bailey	...	lighting sequence supervisor
	Christian Barrett	...	technical director
	Kelly Barschig	...	recruiter
	Michael Baula	...	Image Finaling Artist
	David Bazelon	...	additional crowds artist
	James Bennett	...	senior previsualization artist
	Shiben Bhattacharjee	...	visual effects artist
	Nafees Bin Zafar	...	research and development principal engineer: DreamWorks Animation
	Alan Blevins	...	lighting technical director
	Naveen Kumar Bolla	...	effects technical director
	Silviu Borac	...	senior r&d engineer
	Eric Bouffard	...	matte painting supervisor
	Gregory Brentin	...	workflow director
	Daniel J. Brick	...	digital matte painter
	Scott Brisbane	...	head of matte painting
	Matt Brisbin	...	fx technical director
	Max Bruce	...	cg supervisor
	Jeff Budsberg	...	visual effects
	Trisha Butkowski	...	character technical director
	Stephen Candell	...	character technical director lead
	Kevin Carney	...	character fx artist
	Craig Caton	...	additional final layout artist
	Kent Chan	...	massive artist
	Kevin Chang	...	character effects technical director
	Chloe Chao	...	research and development supervisor
	Yiqun Chen	...	character effects
	Alan Cheney	...	visual effects artist
	David S. Cheng	...	technical director
	Wes Chilton	...	visual effects artist
	Ariel Chisholm	...	lighting artist
	Joong-ryang Choi	...	character effects lead
	Tim Chrismer	...	lighting technical assistant
	Jonathan Ciscon	...	lighting artist
	Sean Cole	...	visual effects supervisor
	Stephen Timothy Cooney	...	visual effects artist
	Bart Coughlin	...	character technical director
	Matthew Davies	...	production technology
	Brian C. Davis	...	visual effects artist
	Ted Davis	...	visual effects
	Gilbert Davoud	...	global character technical direction supervisor
	Daniel Dawson	...	character technical director
	Alain De Hoe	...	effects artist
	Christina N. de Juan	...	character technical director
	Paolo deGuzman	...	surfacing supervisor
	Ares Deveaux	...	additional animator
	Joe DiCesare	...	matte painter
	Craig Dowsett	...	modeler
	Willem Drees	...	stereoscopic supervisor
	David Drell	...	character technical director
	Vaibhav Dube	...	lighting technical director
	Christopher Lynn Edwards	...	lighting technical director
	Avedis Ekmekjian	...	lead lighter
	Charles Ellison	...	modeler
	Matt Elser	...	render wrangler
	John Erik Englund	...	technical director
	Marcus Erbar	...	character effects technical director
	Cassandra Fanning	...	lead image finaling artist
	Oliver Finkelde	...	head of character effects: DreamWorks
	Louis Flores	...	additional effects / visual effects artist
	Edwin Fong	...	surfacer: Dreamworks Feature Animation
	Ted Forgrave	...	global development
	Anthony Fung	...	visual effects artist
	Jennifer Fung	...	research and development
	Mariana Galindo	...	lead character effects animator
	Jack Geckler	...	crowds artist
	Amber Geisler	...	image finaling artist
	Jonathan Gibbs	...	workflow director
	Navjit Singh Gill	...	lighting/compositing
	Philippe Gluckman	...	creative director india unit
	Zach Glynn	...	visual effects artist
	Dan Golembeski	...	supervising technical director
	Dioselin Gonzalez	...	research and development animation and rigging engineer
	Nishkar Grover	...	Production Pipeline Engineer
	Ben Guastella	...	character fx artist
	Surya Gullapalli	...	r&d engineer
	Bill Gumina	...	image finaling artist
	Dorien Gunnels	...	lighting artist
	Michael P. Hamler	...	lead lighter
	Udai Haraguchi	...	digital artist
	Christian Hatfield	...	effects artist
	Marty Havran	...	modeler
	Matt Head	...	visual effects artist
	Corey Hels	...	rough layout artist: DreamWorks Animation
	Ian Henckel	...	technical director
	Greg Hettinger	...	surfacing artist
	Nathan Hughes Hillier	...	character effects artist
	Robert Holder	...	lighter: DreamWorks
	Christina Hsu Holland	...	crowds artist
	Kevin Hong	...	lighter
	Carl Hooper	...	visual effects artist
	Joe Hughes	...	character effects artist
	Robbin Huntingdale	...	surfacing artist
	C. Jin Im	...	lead lighter
	Rohit Jain	...	character effects artist
	Aaron James McComas	...	effects animator
	DaYoon Jang	...	image finaling artist
	Lucas Janin	...	effects developer: lead effects artist
	Jaskirat Singh Jassal	...	technical director
	Tobin Jones	...	fx sequence lead
	Jeffrey Jose	...	lead technical director
	Terry Kaleas	...	visual effects artist
	Yagna Kalyanaraman	...	r&d engineer
	Sandy Kao	...	global development
	Natasha Kelkar	...	technical director: lighting technical director
	Aniraj Kesavan	...	r&d engineer
	Jaideep Khadilkar	...	visual effects artist
	Cara Khan	...	Surfacing Artist
	Lisa Kim	...	lead lighter
	Spencer Knapp	...	crowds developer
	Kelly Koay	...	additional lighter
	Robert Kopinsky	...	visual effects lead
	Li-Lian Ku	...	character technical director
	Dhananjay Kumar	...	digital compositor
	Domin Lee	...	lead visual effects
	Fangwei Lee	...	visual effects
	Li-Ming 'Lawrence' Lee	...	head of effects
	Matt Lee	...	visual effects: previz
	Matthew Leishman	...	character effects artist
	Nick Levenduski	...	crowds artist
	David Lewis	...	lighter
	Kyung yul Kevin Lim	...	lighting technical assistant
	Matt Linder	...	lead lighter
	Yancy Lindquist	...	visual effects artist
	David Lipton	...	visual effects artist
	Christine Liu	...	crowds artist
	Francis Liu	...	senior shader writer
	Philip K. Livingston Jr.	...	character effects animator
	Kieron Cheuk-Chi Lo	...	lighter
	Nathan Loofbourrow	...	character technical director
	Michael Losure	...	visual effects artist
	Ilia Lyons	...	pipeline software engineer
	Marc Machuca	...	lead image finaling artist
	Mark Macready	...	lighting technical artist
	Cara Malek	...	lead character technical director
	Somanadhan Manoj	...	surfacing artist
	Marco Marquez	...	image finaling artist
	Vaideeswaran Mathappan	...	r&d engineer
	Mark J. Matthews	...	research and development shader writer
	Himanshu Maurya	...	r&d engineer
	Lucy Maxian	...	character effects artist
	Kyle Maxwell	...	visual effects developer
	Jason Mayer	...	lead effects artist
	Jayanta Mazumder	...	modeler
	Scott McGinley	...	pre-viz & layout
	Campbell McGrouther	...	lighter
	Mark A. McGuire	...	head of production pipeline
	Carson McKay	...	surfacing artist
	Phil 'Captain 3D' McNally	...	additional stereoscopic supervisor
	Peter Megow	...	character effects artist
	Zeki Melek	...	research & development
	David B. Menkes	...	lighting and compositing
	Anthony Meschi	...	lead image finaling artist
	Ryan Michero	...	shot lighter
	Candice Miller	...	character technical director
	John R. Miller	...	technical director
	Cliff B. Mitchell	...	character technical director
	Mohammad Mohsin	...	r&d engineer
	Desiree Montalvo	...	visual effects coordinator
	Travis Mosley	...	technical director
	William Moten	...	additional crowds artist
	Marcie Moura	...	final layout artist
	Elizabeth Muhm	...	technical director
	Rahul Mullick	...	visual effects artist
	Stephanie Mulqueen	...	visual effects artist
	Madhavi Marigold Muppala	...	lead technical director
	Maninya Murthy	...	r&d engineer
	Ken Museth	...	r&d supervisor
	Tomijann Nabors	...	surfacer
	Gaku Nakatani	...	lead lighter
	Abhijit Nandy	...	r&d engineer
	Mark Nonnenmacher	...	matte painter
	Colleen O'Hagan	...	technical director
	Kevin Ochs	...	supervising character technical director
	Rohan Oka	...	texture artist
	Justin Onstine	...	fx artist
	Christy Page	...	lighting technical assistant
	Hannah Page	...	crowd technical director
	Joyce Pan	...	lighting technical director
	Sudipta Panja	...	modeling artist
	Rupali Parekh	...	cg lighting artist
	Hongseo Park	...	character technical director
	Geoff Parkhill	...	technical director
	Keyur Patel	...	surfacing artist
	Atul Patil	...	r&d engineer
	Matthew Paulson	...	head of modeling
	Nikita Pavlov	...	visual effects artist
	Prashant Pawar	...	Lead Surfacing artist
	Andrew Pearce	...	director of reseach and development
	Devon Penney	...	research and development
	Katie Penney	...	visual effects artist
	Scott B. Peterson	...	co-head of effects
	Joseph Piercy	...	hair / fur lead
	Bert Poole	...	lighting supervisor
	Jason Porath	...	visual effects artist
	Preet Prasannan	...	r&d engineer
	Andrew Pungprakearti	...	surfacing artist
	Sahil Ramani	...	research & development engineer
	Brian Ratchford	...	surfacing artist
	Joshua F. Richards	...	crowds artist
	Kevin Rodgers	...	character technical director
	Max Rodriguez	...	Character Effects Artist
	Milton E. Rodriguez-Rios	...	lighting artist
	Justin Rosen	...	technical director
	Christopher Rydalch	...	visual effects artist
	Wade Ryer	...	character technical director
	Kendal Sager	...	character technical director
	Tannaz Sassooni	...	character effects technical director
	K L Sateesh Varma	...	compositor
	Paul Schoeni	...	modeler
	Marc Scott	...	lead lighter
	Pradipto Sengupta	...	character fx td
	Priyes Shah	...	senior lighting and compositing artist
	Vaibhav Shah	...	modeling artist
	Gaurav Shenai	...	character technical director
	Hannah Sherman	...	lighting artist
	Richard Shiba	...	rough layout artist
	Amy Shimano	...	character effects animator / character effects
	Dmitry Shklyar	...	lighting technical assistant
	Ehsan Shokrgozar	...	technical director
	Kevan Shorey	...	additional animator
	Rahul Singh	...	technical director
	Ruhi Sinha	...	lighting artist
	Utkarsh Sinha	...	technical director
	Dan Smiczek	...	crowds artist: DreamWorks Animation
	Brian Smith	...	image finaling artist
	Kirill Smolskiy	...	lighting artist
	Jaryd Snover	...	character technical director
	Steven Sorensen	...	final layout artist
	Christopher Sprunger	...	lighting artist
	Dug Stanat	...	character technical director
	James Stapp	...	modeler
	Timothy Steele	...	character effects artist
	Kemer Stevenson	...	character effects artist
	Vimal Subramaniam	...	cg supervisor
	Satheesh Subramanian	...	R&D Manager / research and development manager
	Hong Suh	...	digital artist
	Jeff Sullivan	...	crowds artist
	Jyothi Kalyan Sura	...	visual effects artist
	Ben Sutherland	...	visual effects artist
	Bonnie Tai	...	pipeline development TD
	Osamu Takehiro	...	lead lighter
	Varun Talwar	...	technical director
	Suan Ching Tan	...	surfacing artist
	Frederic Tarabout	...	surfacing artist
	Don Taylor	...	lighter
	Blessan Thevalethu Abraham	...	lead research & development engineer
	Shannon Thomas	...	digital modeler
	Michael T. Thompson	...	image finaling artist
	James Thornton	...	crowd supervisor
	Dave Tidgwell	...	visual effects artist
	Stacey Truman	...	surfacing artist
	Sachin Tyagi	...	character effects artist
	Anthony Tyler	...	lead technical director
	Ajay Upadhyaya	...	lead lighting artist and compositing
	Jagadeesh V.P.	...	Midlevel Lighting Artist
	Pablo Valle	...	head of lighting
	Baptiste Van Opstal	...	lead effects artist
	Sophie Van Ronsele	...	image finaling artist
	Benjamin Venancie	...	lead lighter
	Venu Victor	...	effects lead
	Robert Vignone	...	modeler
	Brent Villalobos	...	technical lead
	Vigneshwar Viswanathan	...	Technical Resource Administrator
	Dick Walsh	...	character technical director
	Dave Walvoord	...	visual effects supervisor
	Liang-Yuan Wang	...	cg supervisor
	Victor Wang	...	r&d technology / visual effects: r&d technology
	Nathan Warner	...	pre-visualization artist
	Eric Warren	...	character effects technical director
	Brent Watkins	...	global development
	Ferris Webby	...	character technical director
	Andrew Wheeler	...	visual effects artist
	David I. White	...	light engineer
	Jeffrey Wike	...	head of research & development
	Emanuel Williams	...	motion capture engineer
	David D. Wilson	...	pipeline engineer
	D'Lun Wong	...	crowds artist
	Youxi Woo	...	visual effects artist
	Joanna Wu	...	lighting supervisor
	Guoqiang Xie	...	visual effects artist
	Gentaro Yamamoto	...	senior surfacing artist
	Ken Yao	...	character effects
	Nate Yellig	...	character effects lead
	Ji Hyun Yoon	...	lead visual effects
	Sun Yoon	...	matte painter
	Erik Zimmermann	...	effects artist
	Guido Zimmermann	...	lead character technical director
	Naren Naidoo	...	image finaling artist: DreamWorks Animation
	Honey Sharma	...	lighting ta
	Joseph Towe	...	digital artist
Thanks
	Eivind Aksnes	...	special thanks
	James Ellis Deakins	...	special thanks
	Guillermo del Toro	...	special thanks
	Iain Morris	...	special thanks
	Hans Otto Nicolayssen	...	special thanks
	Jason Roberts	...	special thanks
	Drew Struzan	...	special thanks
	Linda Sunshine	...	special thanks
	Larry Weisberg	...	Executive Administration

Additional Info
Premiere:	May 16, 2014
Theatrical Release:	June 13, 2014
DVD Release:	November 11, 2014
Blu-ray Release:	November 11, 2014
Countries:
Distributor:	DreamWorks
Websites:

Ratings
7.8 / 10	77 / 100

Alternate Titles
Dragon Trainer 2
Dragons 2

Production Companies
DreamWorks Animation (DreamWorks Animation SKG)
Mad Hatter Entertainment

Distributors
20th Century Fox (2014) (United States) (20th Century Fox) (theatrical)
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2014) (United States) (DVD)
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2014) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
KVH Media Group (2014) (World-wide) (ships)
Hotstar (2015) (World-wide) (video)
Universal Pictures (2016) (World-wide)
National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (2019) (United States) (TV)
Peacock (2020) (United States) (VOD) (video)

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