Metroid scene made using Lego's

[BHvrd]

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/10470

[DefaultGen]

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[DragonMaster Sam]

I didn't see any Legos in that video.

[Nicola]

Yes, indeed it's just a digital effect. I think it took at least 5 minutes to make it.

[Nicola]

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/10300

this is Lego

[davepesc]

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/10300

this is Lego

Now that was wild.

[Daria]

No, it's really Legos.

http://bitflicks.com/

[ubikuberalles]

Yes, they're really legos but it's not the traditional stop motion animation you'd naturally think of upon first hearing about it.

Since lots of people have asked how the videos on BitFlicks are made we thought this week we would give you a little insight by posting our first video which kicked off the whole idea for the site. What you can see is a very basic quasi-stop motion animation. Quasi because there was actually only one LEGO block involved, which was photographed in multiple positions and then composited in a photo editing program as a multi-layer image. Producing the animation was then a simple matter of masking the LEGO blocks and then hiding or displaying certain layers. The end result was a simple stop motion animation that didn’t suffer from the usual random variations in lighting and position.

[GillianSeed]

Yes, they're really legos but it's not the traditional stop motion animation you'd naturally think of upon first hearing about it.

I don't really buy that explanation, it looks like they 're just masking the video image with Legos -- it's far too smooth.

PS -- if you look at one of the Mario videos (SMB3), one of the Goombas loses his top half (a glitch in the game). So it's pretty clear that somthing's generating a video image, why animate half a Goomba?

[ubikuberalles]

Essentially, I agree with you, GillianSeed.

Even if every image on the movie is from an actual photograph of a Lego block, they've done so much post production work that it doesn't look real anymore. In fact, it probably wouldn't look any different if they dd the whole thing with drawings generated by Flash or Photoshop.

I WANT the glitches and muffed frames. It makes the animation more real. It convinces you that, yes, they ARE using real lego blocks in the film. Instead, it looks like a slick commercial product and I feel deceived when they tell me they are using real Lego blocks.

[exit]

That wasn't very good at all, I was expecting something much more interesting.