[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jde4qHbCtSg[/media]
This is widely believed to be the first stop motion that used Lego bricks as the primary focus.
It's damn cool.
[quote]This is the first Lego animation or "Brickfilm" as some people would call it, ever made, by a genius named "Lindsay Fleay".
It was created in Perth, Western Australia between the years of 1985 and 1989!
Here's the blurb from Lindsay's website: [url]http://www.rakrent.com/[/url]
"The Magic Portal is a short stop motion film that uses LEGO®, plasticene, cardboard and pixellated live action, made between the years of 1985 and 1989 on good ol' fashioned 16mm film. The story concerns the strange fate of a LEGO astronaut called L, who discovers the Magic Portal on board his giant spaceship. The Portal takes him to a strange and surreal LEGO world where he has a close encounter with a Monster and barely escapes with his life. His report to Captain Paranoia only gets him to trouble and his friend and shipmate P, doesn't believe him. However, the Portal has a mind of its own, and reappears to upset the cosy world of the giant spaceship and its crew to reveal weirder worlds more peculiar than the last..."[/quote]
I remember finding this years ago, I have the original film film saved on my harddrive somewhere. Always makes me smile when I see it.
Captain Paranoia's a douche.
I watched this so many times a few years back.
[QUOTE=FlamingBlizza;44085310]I watched this so many times a few years back.[/QUOTE]
you watched this sooo many times in 2012?
My dad actually knew the woman who did this. He's an animator, used to work at Disney's Sydney studio over in NSW, and I think he either knew her there, or came to know her after we moved over to Perth. Has this on an old CD somewhere, I think. I remember him showing me this when I was very young, and it was basically what got me into Lego.
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