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it's because it's too saturated as well. removing the intensity of the saturation helps immensely with the image coherent-ness and helps him look closer to his original design
I am going to do my utmost to not talk too much about the CGI remake because its not good for me, however something I think is inchresting...
I noticed a lot of folks, myself included, felt that Toothless' eyes are a little off. Like technically the shape and colour are roughly correct, but something isn't quite right.
My personal theory is that this is because there is virtually no contrast between his eye colour and his body colour. They're both equally deep colours. Compare this to the animated movie and well...