Netflix’s animated series The Dragon Prince, co-created by Avatar: The Last Airbender head writer Aaron Ehasz and Uncharted series game developer and director Justin Richmond, just dropped its second season, and it’s a powerful step forward for the fantasy series. I recently spoke at length to Ehasz and Richmond about the stylistic changes and narrative leaps forward the show took in season 2.
The dragon attack sequence feels visually different from a lot of the other character movement. Was it handled any differently behind the scenes? JR: There are a couple of things. I’m not an animation expert. I did go to animation school, but I’m not an animation expert! I know that a lot of those sequences, they set up the cameras and sequences very differently, so they’d feel much more visceral.