Look I'm doing Betta at digital painting!
All the characters have the same outfit the entire move (except one scene when Emmet and Wyldstyle wear disguises). Characters expressions are exaggerated because their facial features are very simple. It takes place on a table with lego models set up for a city, wild west, medivial forest, and fantasy land. The main characters use their surroundings to build objects like vehicles, which helps move the storyline. The built Lego worlds and vehicles also gives specific items for the franchise to sell and the movie is a form of advertisement for those objects.
I did two quick sketches (because computer art isn't quite my medium yet and I wasn't able to work on it at home). This one is a device that projects what someone is thinking. If you had a cool idea and couldn't verbally explain this would be a useful invention for you, because you could use this device to show people what you are visualizing. This one shows a futuristic city in the sky where stairs aren't connected, people live in floating pods and when someone walks out their door they will be pulled upward onto a gravity pad.
I picked sprinkles because the tiny sugar crystals appear more exotic then other foods and they're uniqueness opens a wide range of possibilities. When I finally came up with the company name, Mountain Summit Sprinkles, I was inspired. The name drew me in a minimalist direction and I found clip art to represent the product-with the sprinkles as the peak of the cupcake. My most successful part of the piece is the color palette and mountain details. The nutrition facts and upper curve where the title is took the longest to come up with. I would maybe change the wording so it's more traditional ingredients instead if the fantastical approach.
Lego Movie is produced by Animal Logic, Warner Bros Animation, Village Roadshow Pictures, and RatPac-Dune Entertainment. It uses lego bricks and CGI effects.
The people who worked on stop motion : Lizzy Klein (set dresser), Ethan Marak (end-credits animation supervisor), and Steven Gurr (motion graphic design artist) Ethan Marak worked on the Nightmare Before Christmas as an intern and since then has won an Emmy for his work in Robot Chicken. Currently he works as a director. The Lego Movie incorporates both stop-motion and animation. Worn lego pieces were studied under a microscope, so the 'used toy' feel could be added to the characters. This attention to detail shows how hard the artists worked to get the effects. I think the lego brick style appeals to me because it's interesting that any characters or vehicles in the movie could be made as toys. It will also be easier to mimic the design of than other styles listed (the Nightmare Before Christmas) |