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How to Train Your Dragon poster

How to Train Your Dragon (2025) colour palette

Directed by Dean DeBlois · Shot by Bill Pope

How to Train Your Dragon (2025), shot by Bill Pope, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 47 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#34332e), covering 14% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.84 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.246 — more saturated than 48% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.376 — brighter than 23% of ranked films

Measured across 47 frames. See the frames on the How to Train Your Dragon page →

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