My French is très rusty, but even without understanding the language (thankfully, there are English captions) I was impressed by the lip-synced characters in “Tout le bloc en parle” by MonsieurCaron. While there are an abundance of brick animations that add digital mouths to minifigs, and a few that swap …
[Read more]Parker W Young puts a nice twist on the classic brick animation trope of one character struggling against a stubborn inanimate object (e.g. The Dandelion) with “A Lego Christmas.” This is an entry in RepellingSpider‘s Christmas in a Minute Contest. You can see the other entries here. Wishing everyone a …
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Seeing this Nyan Cat creation by Mr.Attacki that incorporates motors and other technical bits to bring it to life reminded me of another impressive creation in this vein by NeXTSTORM: While this doesn’t fit the traditional definition of what we’d consider a brick animation (there’s no stop motion involved), it’s …
[Read more]This 4-way split screen video shows the different layers that went into Insomniac’s “Houdini” music video that we featured previously. That’s a lot of work on display. Do you like seeing this kind of breakdown of the components of a video, or does it ruin the magic for you?
[Read more]After seeing “Barney’s cherry” in the Eurobricks Brick Flicks and Comics forum last weekend, I started wondering why animations starring Fabuland characters are so frequently Lynchian. Considering Fabuland was originally marketed at children ages 4-8, there is an alarmingly high occurrence of hallucinatory imagery, adult language, and graphic violence in …
[Read more]I think most LEGO fans are familiar with the story of Ole Kirk Christiansen, and how The LEGO Group originally developed from his small woodworking company in the early-mid 20th century. It’s been well-documented in a number of official books, like this one, this one, and this one. But now …
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