I've encountered only three dragons so far, so maybe this is some kind of bug? But the first dragon that you see in the "tutorial" that was very weird. It felt like it wasn't a living thing but a toy being held in the hands of an invisible giant kid. Because when the dragon flies and makes a sharp turn there's no animation on the dragon... the model just kind of rotates and that's it. Looks very amateurish. I don't know how to describe it but, if you were looking at this thing you'd expect it to need to move it's wings or do SOMETHING in order to so rapidly change it's direction in mid-flight, but yet it does nothing, it just pivots in mid-air. The other two dragons I've encountered do the same. It looks rubbish and weird, as if the animation team working on the dragons decided that "that'll do" and gave up on it.

Anyone else notice this?

Yeah, it's something that whenever I see just makes me sigh.

The first couple of times I was too busy filling my pants - but after a while I did notice it.

never seen this. the ones ive fought turn sharply banging to one side with wings outstretched.

i did see one at some point that the animation studdered a bit, but nothing apart from that incident.