Friday Fun

As far as I can tell, the Lego genre was invented by fan filmmakers, not professionals. I can't prove that, mind you; it's just that the idea to act out a movie with Lego toys seems more likely to emerge from a suburban basement than from a Hollywood studio. But the big boys are jumping on the bandwagon, to judge from what appears to be an officially sanctioned professional production, Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock.

It's an impressive film, both on a technical level (the stop-motion photography would do Ray Harryhausen proud) and as an entertainment (though it's closer in spirit to Airplane! than to a superhero movie). You can watch it here.

[Via Infocult.]

Comments

[irilyth]

Great stuff, but is it really stop-motion? It looked computer-generated to me, especially e.g. the scenes with water.

[Jesse Walker]

You may be right. The background effects are surely computer-generated, even if the Lego figures themselves were filmed in stop-motion. And in this case -- this being a professional production rather than a fan film -- the whole thing might be done on a computer.

[Jake]

Nope, this was all done with LEGO bricks. There are certainly some special effects (like the sun effect at the opening or the sparks when the car hits the ground), but overall the movie is plastic based.

It's such beatiful camera and stop-motion work that it's sometimes hard to tell though!

Jake
Community Liaison
LEGO Company

[Jesse Walker]

Then congratulations -- you did a fantastic job.

[Ken Shultz]

Cool!

[trainwreck]

Wow. Thanks for that link! It really was fun.