A number of films and television shows have been filmed around Dagnall, including First Knight and Dinotopia.
Their spirit has also continued to influence fiction to this day, including James Gurney's Dinotopia series and "softening" Steampunk's dystopianism with utopian wonder and curiosity.
He also created the virtual Waterfall City for Dinotopia and was a matte painter on Troy, Rome and Harry Potter II. He now works in Vancouver, Canada as a matte painter.