Sunday, February 16, 2014

EVERYTHING IS AWESOME (Blog #39)

So, for one of the articles, it was about the new lego movie and I was ecstatic because I saw it. Being able to get out of the house and all. So, this will be really fun to write because this movie is an animators dream in my opinion.

Building to the Top

. So, with The Lego Movie, a main aspect that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller wanted to show was the look of the actual characters. They needed to look like they are used. Nothing was perfect and there had to be bumps and scratches on them, because lego's are used!
From watching the movie, this attribute of a used toy look was spot on and it wasn't over the top. The subtle detail of grooves and scratches in the characters was shown really nice in certain areas of lighting. Thumbs up from me.

. Our second main character, Wyldstyle is a punkish girl character that is an opposite to the main character Emmet. Many different variations and ideas for her design were made until the final version of a female with streaks of color in her hair was made and this worked. (And for some reasons I can't tell you)

. Finally, we learned that this movie was mostly done in 3D animation and you could tell but also, some of it was done in stop motion and it's really funny because they had homages to those cheap lego stop motion YouTube videos in the movie. They were brilliant.

Brick by Brick

. This is an outstanding movie with the jokes and obviously the animation but, the story also works!
for a "simple kids movie" it's much more than that to me and this will be one of my favorites.

. The attribute of a used toy, especially a lego was done really well like I said above also

IS EVERYTHING AWESOME?

. What is your opinion of The Lego Movie??

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