How to Make a Dragon Part 2: The Design

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Inspired by the Showstopposaurus and Michael Curry’s designs for the Lion King, Barbara, Angie, and Morgan sketched out designs for the dragon, experimenting with style, shape, and engineering. The two main challenges were weight (as an actor would need to wear it on stage) and how to built it so it would move realistically – or how one would imagine a Venetian dragon sea-serpent might move!