The Creative Talent Network has uploaded a video in which Cal State San Bernardino biology professor Stuart Sumida and Simon Otto, Head of Character Animation for How to Train Your Dragon, discuss developing real-life references on how dragons could fly.

The presentation can be viewed here.

Mark Muckenfuss wrote about Sumida’s animated career for the Press-Enterprise, “CAL STATE: Professor lives in an animated world,” February 26, 2011, posted online here.

Photo by David Bauman/The Press-Enterprise.