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Forums - Bricks in Motion » Other Films » My first paid animation gig (Star Wars Robot Chicken style)!
After three years away from stop-motion, I was contracted to make a Star Wars themed (their idea, not mine) stop-motion corperate video by a local software company. The original plan was to use LEGO, but it was too difficult to find a Darth Vader minifig (I guess it's all Clone Wars in the stores).
So we went for a Robot-Chicken approach instead.
Youtube 1:36min
Last edited by Ferder (July 13, 2011 (08:05am))
That was really good and entertaining. 
Was it hard to make?
Was this sort of like an advertisement for 7geese?
It was good animation though. High fives! 
Well done! I like what you did with it, quite entertaining.
Thanks for the the comments guys!
That was really good and entertaining.
Was it hard to make?
The hard part was that it had been so long since I had done animation or brickfilming that I needed to create the whole studio and workflow again from scratch. It was also a challenge because I had a really tight deadline. I had 13 days from when I first got the project till when it was finished, but I wasn't able to even use all those days.
In the end it took one day to write the script and create the life-action previsualization video, three days to build the sets (all I could do while I recovered from wisdom tooth surgery). One day to set up the studio and test out the camera and animation software. Then just over two full days to do all the animation (about 28 hours to capture 1 minutes's worth). And another full day and a half (including a nearly all-night session) to finish the editing and effects. Much credit goes to our composer who created the John Williams sound-alike for us in one night just in time for the video's delivery the next morning.
Was this sort of like an advertisement for 7geese?
Kinda. It was created for this contest. Basically, the videos that get the most votes then have their technology presented at a Tech Expo here in Vancouver Canada. By the way, feel free to vote for the video at that website! Just go the page, click on "Vote for this Entry," and log in through your Facebook account. It's that easy.
If you watch some of the videos on the site that we're competing against you'll notice that we were actually parodying the typical style of web promotional videos
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