Hi! I'm Ian, the animator and comedic helper. Well actually, I'm not the real animator yet. I'm still being trained by E, who is the director. (Jay, my older brother who will probably post if he has the time, is our sound and music tech.) We have made several movies over the last couple of years already. They aren't as big as we're hoping this one will, but they were pretty funny.
As a learning animator, I have been working on having minifigures walking and giving a few physical expressions, lighting, movement, and a few other things.
We also need to get a new camera. The one we are using now is really bad quality. E has found the one we're going to get already. Now we just need to get permission to waste our money to get it. (E: "'Our' money? I'm the one financing this project!)
But we're still doing okay with using the camera we have meanwhile. If you look up at the top of this post, there is a picture of three of the main characters. Down under the next two paragraphs is another shot, this time with a background. E was doing a bunch of test shots today, and we just finished most of the main characters.
On the left is the main character, 'Kiddo' (that's his nickname). In the center is our comic relief (I call him Bill, since we don't have a solid name for him yet) and you'll find out that he is very funny. On the right, we have the sarcastic mechanic, who's a girl (we don't have a name for her yet either).
Anyway, about the new movie: Its a little like the old Lego Alpha Team (as a matter of fact, that's what it was in the first place) that the Lego Company did in 2000. You see, a few years ago we started thinking about hilarious things that could have happenned in the story. We made a lot of scenes then we typed it out and found out we could make it into a script, and then we liked it so much we decided to make it into a movie, and since we have so many legos we decided to do it, and then that's what brings us to right now. (almost.) The story has changed a lot from the original, but it should be good. We have seen a bunch of other lego movies people made, which helped us out a lot with ideas for camera angles and animating.
Well I have to go soon and just to tell you we don't know when we are going to release the movie. As a matter of fact, we might even release it right now!. . . . . just kidding. For one, we just got started, and two, we don't have a good camera yet.
(Note from E: Ian didn't know this at the time, but we're looking at a Springtime release.)
Well, I have to go before my sister finds out what I have been telling you. Ack! Here she comes now I got to go bye!
- Ian
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