A couple of months ago, France & Alex released a 22-minute long historical brickfilm that is impressive to say the least. They spent a considerable amount of time producing the film, and have just recently released a video that gives a close up, behind-the-scenes look at what went into making …
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I can’t believe I’ve never mentioned The BrickFlix Film Festival before! It’s not like I co-run it or anything.
[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 …
[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]Kevin Ulrich of Brotherhood Workshop shares some of the secrets to his incredibly well animated Lord of the Rings brick animations in an equally well produced behind-the-scenes video. I particularly liked his discussion of how he builds his sets using sticks and rocks and why he prefers animating on clay …
[Read more]A few days ago, my co-author uploaded the fourth of five behind-the-scenes videos for four commercials his company produced for the LEGO Group last year, collectively referred to as the “Red Brick Saga.” As an animator, these “making of” videos are, in some ways, more enjoyable that the four branded …
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