Comments on: Experimenting with live action Lego films

By: JimmytheJ

JimmytheJ — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:37:43 +0000

I found the Mummification chamber vid quite effective. I liked the effects used to make it feel like an old/battered film. The scary breathing one… I think it would do much better with some stop-mo. Or at least a wider setting with green plates. But that shooty bit at the end was fun.

For those interested in lego anims… *PLUG!*

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10962799@N04/4746275662/
http://www.youtube.com/user/jednetuk#p/u/8/XMkjPNQm4YM
No snazzy effects here, but there was a heap-load of work, so, y’know. Am I posting this because I think I posted in the wrong time-zone and my flickr-post was drowned in the Lego pool? …probably… -_-

By: travisgriggs

travisgriggs — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:14:28 +0000

It’s interesting, but I think I’ll prefer the stop motion. One of the whole points of Lego’s is that they discretize your world into little bricks, making it, well, blocky. The “stop motion” effect actually takes me “inside” the Lego world, it harmonizes what I’m seeing with the way I’m seeing it. The real life effect just makes me feel like I’m watching someone else play with their toys, because it enhances the real world effect, and diminishes the imaginary blockified world.

By: ranwanimator

ranwanimator — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:58:20 +0000

Yeah, so I made the mistake of listening to these with headphones on. Let’s just say heavy breathing directly into my ear is not a turn-on. I agree with the hand-held scale issue. Someone needs to build a movement reducer so that motions made with a “real camera” can be reproduced at scale with a “minifig camera” That would make it loads more realistic.

By: wunztwice

wunztwice — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:44:48 +0000

Interesting experiments, especially given the amount of real-time movement now provided by NXT and PowerFunctions, etc.

From a film critique angle, they are a bit rough, but present some interesting new ground. The lighting could be improved, but we all know how hard lighting miniature models is. Miniature dollies, cranes and jibs could prove very beneficial, as the ‘handheld’ approach is amplified drastically by the scale, and pulls me out of the world of the video far too much. (it ruins my suspended disbelief)

But yes, interesting concept, and worth exploring!