How to Train Your Dragon 2 wins big at Golden Globes

Quebec-born director Dean DeBlois didn't expect to hear, "How To Train Your Dragon 2"when the envelope was finally opened for the best animated feature category at the72ndAnnual Golden Globes onSunday night.

"I was genuinely shocked when I heard those words, and it was a real high," said DeBlois, on the phone from Los Angeles Monday morning.

"Every award pundit hadTheLEGOMoviewinning."

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It was a Golden Globes first for theHow to Train Your Dragonfranchise. When the firstDragonfilm was nominated in 2011, it lost in the best animated feature film category toToy Story 3.

As it turns out, if you have a Golden Globe in your hand, it becomes a ticket to any party.- Dean DeBlois,director of the

DeBloisis originally fromAylmer, Que.and got his start onCanadian productions like the late 1980'sCBCanimated seriesThe Raccoons.

And although he's lived in Los Angeles for several years, he'll always remember where he came from.

"I'm alwaysgonnabe a Canadian boy," he told Daybreak's MikeFinnerty the morning after his big win.

Daybreak Montreal9:23How To Train Your Dragon 2 wins a Golden Globe

A Quebecer won a Golden Globe last night. Daybreak spoke to director Dean DeBlois, who won the Golden Globe for the Best Animated Feature Film for the movie How to Train Your Dragon 2. Dean Deblois joins me on the line from Los Angeles.

Hitting the Globes after-parties

Award in hand,DeBloissaidhe spent the night at after-parties,though because of a cold, he drank "mostly water--trying to stay hydrated."

"As it turns out, if you have a Golden Globe in your hand, it becomes a ticket to any party," saidDeBlois.

"The great thing is about the Golden Globes that it's a relaxed event. There's a lot of alcohol being served, and everyone has loosened up.

"Everyone you have admired and wanted to meet, you can go up to and have a conversation," he said, adding that he had thechance to speak withDamienChazelle,director of the critically-acclaimed filmWhiplash.

DirectingCGIactors

DeBloissays directing animated films can be less spontaneous than directing live-action films.

Scenes have to be sketched out in comic-like panels and rendered by artists before they are voiced-over by actors.

Animation[runs] over a million dollars a minute, so we have to be careful,- Dean DeBlois, director of the

"Every actor is different. Jay [Baruchel] has been doing voice-over dubs for French-language cartoons since he was a kid, and he's very comfortable in a booth with a microphone and nothing else," saidDe Blois.

"In fact, [Baruchel] prefers that to being on set with other actors."

Baruchel, the voice of the lead character in How to Train Your Dragon 2,is originally from Montreal'sNotre-Dame-de-Grceneighbourhood. The film also features the vocal talents ofGerard Butler, America Ferrera and CateBlanchett.

"WithCateBlanchett, this was her first time [doing animation], and she's methodical about wanting to know every aspect of what the character is thinking, so it really became a discussion every time," saidDeBlois.

New Dragonfilm coming in 2017

The Dragonfranchise has been a profitable onethe latest film grossed $618.9 millionat box offices across the globe.

DeBloissays creating the films is also an expensive process.How to Train Your Dragon 2had a$145 million budget.

"The thing about animation is it runs over a million dollars a minute, so we have to be really conscious of how long our shots are," saysDeBlois.

It's a process the cast will soon be starting all over again.

DeBloisis already hard at work onHow to Train Your Dragon 3, whichhe says should be out in June of 2017.