“Little Guys!” played at the WILDsound Film Festival a while back. Here’s a short video of the audience reaction on YouTube.
Archive for the ‘Moving Pictures’ Category
“Little Guys!” doesn’t have any jokes
Sunday, March 14th, 2010LEGO Club Show 2.2, 2.3
Monday, March 1st, 2010Here’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.
Mechanical Memory I
Monday, March 1st, 2010Here’s an entry to the ThinkGeek Brick Shirt contest by myself and Nelson Diaz.
AFOL: A Blocumentary
Friday, February 19th, 2010Here’s a really fun look inside the world of adult LEGO hobbyists. Their work is just fantastic, and this documentary by Jess Gibson brings it all together really well.
AFOL A Blocumentary from AFOL on Vimeo. [Thanks, Roger!]
Models from the “Zack the LEGO Maniac” video
Friday, February 19th, 2010I 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!
Zack, the LEGO Maniac Monster on MOCpages
Blacktron Cadillac on MOCpages
LEGO Club Show 2.1
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010The 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.
Everybody’s getting psyched for the LEGO Club Show
Friday, February 12th, 2010For 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, 2010Recently 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.
CL!CK: A LEGO Short Film
Monday, January 11th, 2010Okay, 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)!
Ukrainian Sand Artist
Thursday, January 7th, 2010I don’t post anything other than videos anymore, do I? Well, this one’s worth it. From YouTube:
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine’s version of “America’s Got Talent.” She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
Pretty incredible. Reminds me of Joan Gratz’s work a little bit — but it’s like live-animation.