Archive for the ‘Animation’ Category

“Little Guys!” doesn’t have any jokes

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

“Little Guys!” played at the WILDsound Film Festival a while back. Here’s a short video of the audience reaction on YouTube.

YouTube – LITTLE GUYS-AUDIENCE FEEDBACK

“Little Guys!” featured on Make: Online

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Make: Online is taking the month of March to talk about DIY moviemaking, and one of the first topics they’re covering is LEGO animation. And they’ve included my film “Little Guys!” as one of the most awesome LEGO films made, to be used for inspiration. I’m flattered!

Make: Online : Brickfilms: Lego stop-motion [Thanks, Nathan!]

LEGO Club Show 2.2, 2.3

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Here’s the next two installments of episode 2 of the LEGO Club Show. I had nothing to do with either of these, but they’re still pretty cool. The interview with Patrick Boivin is of particular interest to stop-motion animators and aficionados, and it’s great to hear his insight and advice.

YouTube – The LEGO Club Show!!!! Episode 2 – Part 2

YouTube – The LEGO Club Show!!! Episode 2 – Part 3

Models from the “Zack the LEGO Maniac” video

Friday, February 19th, 2010

I just uploaded some images of the Maniac Monster and Blacktron Cadillac from the “Zack the LEGO Maniac” video to my MOCpages account and Flickr. Check ‘em out!

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Zack, the LEGO Maniac Monster on MOCpages
Blacktron Cadillac on MOCpages

LEGO Club Show 2.1

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The LEGO Club Show continues, with part 1 of episode 2. Max squares off against the Power Miners’ Crystal King, who was REALLY fun to animate.

YouTube – The LEGO Club Show!!!! Episode 2 – Part 1

Everybody’s getting psyched for the LEGO Club Show

Friday, February 12th, 2010

For the past few months, myself and some other folks here at Paganomation have been hard at work on segments for the LEGO Club Show, a new series from the folks at LEGO Club TV. Episode 1 has finally been put up on YouTube, after being released on the LEGO Club website back in January.

The intro to the show looks great — and is all stop-motion, as I mentioned before. While I didn’t work on the intro, I am responsible for Adventures of Max, Flappy the Mailbox, and the Zack the LEGO Maniac video. I’m really proud of the end results. Great work everybody! Enjoy!

YouTube – The LEGO Club Show!!!! Episode 1 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

LEGO Club Show Teaser

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Recently posted to the LEGO Club TV YouTube channel is the intro to the LEGO Club Show that I’ve been working on segments for. I didn’t work on this intro, but I have to say, it’s pretty sweet.

I’ll keep you guys posted on when the actual show comes out!

UPDATE: I thought that portions of this intro were done in CG, but Roger @ LEGO informs me that the ENTIRE THING IS STOP-MOTION. Whoa.

YouTube – Introducing the LEGO CLUB SHOW!! Coming soon!!

CL!CK: A LEGO Short Film

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Okay, so the LEGO CL!CK website I mentioned earlier is official launching with a bang: this wonderful little short that was teased on the site a week or two ago.

The short itself is also called “CL!CK”, and it plays out like a kid friendly version of a Jan Å vankmajer or Brothers Quay film – a silent, jittery, rough-and-tumble mixture of pixelation and stop-motion-looking CG (the shininess of the LEGO creations give it away, and are only distracting if you’re an animation nerd like me). It’s immensely charming, and overall feels like a great contrast to some of the slick, modern video work that one might normally expect to come from LEGO.

One thing in particular I noticed was the inclusion of Ole Kirk Christiansen’s name in the “Original Story By” credits. The founder of the LEGO company, Ole passed away in 1958, and so I’m really curious as to the genesis of this film — was it some sort of oft-delayed project that only now has come to life? Mysterious.

Either way, I’m totally sold on the LEGO CL!CK website now (you may remember my previous confusion). I can’t wait to see what the potential of this site holds, and if you guys make another short like this, I’d love to be involved (or star in it)!

Space Police Behind-the-Scenes

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Here’s a look behind-the-scenes at the LEGO Space Police series I worked on last year for LEGO.com.

YouTube – LEGO Club TV: ANIMATING THE SPACE POLICE!

Space Police Series Finale

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Episode 6 of the Space Police animated series I worked on is posted. Mission accomplished.

YouTube – Space Police: Log 06: IT’S A TRAP!!!!