“The Dragon Prince” is an animated fantasy television series created by Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond for Netflix.
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the series.
- The Dragon Prince is an animated fantasy television series
- For later seasons the series was renamed to The Dragon Prince: Mystery of Aaravos
- This change happened following the release of the fourth season
- It is created by Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond for Netflix
- Produced by Wonderstorm and animated by Bardel Entertainment
- The first season premiered on September 14, 2018
- The second season premiered on February 15, 2019
- The third season premiered on November 22, 2019
- The third season concluded the first saga of the series
- Following a three-year hiatus, the fourth season premiered on November 3, 2022
- It started the series’ second saga
- The fifth season premiered on July 22, 2023
- The series has been renewed for two additional seasons
- These seasons will bring the series to its conclusion
- The series has earned critical acclaim for its story, themes, vocal performances, animation, and humor
- It is set in a fantasy world on the fictional continent of Xadia
- The story centers on the human princes Callum and Ezran and the Moonshadow Elf Rayla
- They seek to end the thousand-year-old conflict between the human kingdoms and the elves whilst taking care of the infant Sky Dragon, the Dragon Prince.
- The series was first announced on July 10, 2018 by co-creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmon
- Ehasz was the head writer and co-executive producer of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, and a longtime writer and story editor for Futurama
- While Richmond co-directed the video game Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
- Giancarlo Volpe, a former director for Avatar, is an executive producer
- The Dragon Prince is produced by Wonderstorm
- This is a multimedia production studio co-founded in 2017, by Ehasz, Richmond, and Justin Santistevan to work both on The Dragon Prince and a related video game
- It is also produced by animated by Canadian studio Bardel Entertainment
- In November 2019, several female former employees of Riot Games and Wonderstorm accused Ehasz of asking his female employees to take care of his children without permission and not taking women’s creative ideas seriously
- Although one anonymous accuser speculated that this could affect the show’s continuation
- Netflix renewed the show and all 7 seasons of the saga will be produced
- The Dragon Prince is created using three-dimensional computer animation
- A reduced frame rate was applied to the first season to offset “floatiness”
- The frame rate was adjusted for the second season in response to fan feedback
- Backgrounds are done by a mix of 3D-modeling and hand-painting
- The ending of season 2 was changed from the original plan in order to stay true to what the characters would choose
- According to Ehasz, one of the creative team’s fundamental goals regarding The Dragon Prince is “to portray a fantasy world that feels more diverse and representative than fantasy worlds and stories we’ve seen in the past”
- Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of 11 critics gave the first season a positive review
- The average rating is 8.2 out of 10
- 100% of six critics gave the second season a positive review
- The average rating is 8.57 out of 10
- 100% of five critics gave the third season a positive review
- The average rating is 9 out of 10
