Last month I got to attend the world premiere of the new LEGO direct-to-video film, “LEGO Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite”. It’s a CG animated feature from TT Animation; an offshoot of Traveller’s Tales, creators of the LEGO video games. The “LEGO Batman” screening was held at The …
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You’ve heard us talk before about “The LEGO Movie”, the forthcoming motion picture from the LEGO Group and Warner Brothers. You’ve also seen our posts regarding various animation contests hosted by Rebrick.com. Well, now the two have become one… Starting today, brick animators will have the opportunity to submit a video of …
[Read more]Annette Jung of Talking Animals animation studio has done the impossible and perfectly captured the King of Pop’s dance moves in LEGO. She side-skirts the limited articulation of the minifigure by using a top-down perspective on some basic bricks. This method essentially turns LEGO bricks into pixels. It’s a great …
[Read more]A year ago today, the very first episode of Minilife TV was released on YouTube. Since then, they have released an episode every Friday (with some breaks between seasons) for a total of 39 episodes. It would take over 3 hours to watch them all back to back (which I …
[Read more]Moo-ack! Productions blends live action with stop-motion animation almost seamlessly in “Stop meets Live.” Well done! Now how about a behind the scenes video on how you did it?
[Read more]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 …
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