I recently did dragon rising where i fought the first dragon in the game. However, as the dragon flew closer, I noticed that his skin textures hadn't loaded at all. I was instead seeing what looked like a blurry pixelated mass of polygons with wings.

Its only after I killed it that it came back to its proper skin textures with scales and all. This hadn't happened to me anytime in my last playthrough. I'm playing the legendary edition with no mods installed. Most of my settings are on ultra