I realy like the multi color teleporting.

You can't fight in here, this is the war room!

This is shaping up to be one of the best brick films I've seen in production. The simplicity of the set yet your attention to detail within them is just phenomenal, I just hope the script has had the same devotion, but judging by the amount of dedication irradiating off your previous post, I doubt you've hurried any part of the pre-production.

@Daniel Sitch: I think I spend the better part of a Saturday sitting in a bathrobe drinking coffee while writing the script (it's about six pages long) You shouldn't expect a very nuanced film, but I feel like I am getting better at playing to my strength in my writing, also multiple people laughed out loud while reading the script so I feel like that is a good sign.

@Coolman Films what is it about...

I guess it would be the spiritual successor of 'Attack of the Evil Robotic Turkey from Outer Space' which was the most dismal failure I think I have ever made. Both films are disaster movies, of a sort, Evil Turkey suffered from bad pacing, to much exposition, an unsatisfying climax, and worst of all, not nearly enough footage of the turkey rampaging throughout the city.

Hopefully I'll be able to show more disaster in this film then Evil Turkey (there will be some city destruction from a VERY different 'monster') I also think that the climax resolution should be more entertaining then the cop-out I used in Evil Turkey.

I've been thinking about a name for this film and this week I came up with 'The Interdimensional Police VS the Eldritch Horror From The 11th Dimension' I'm not set on the name, but its the best I've come up with so far

Listening to Ween and dreaming in micro scale.

I need a wide shot of a city so I figured I would shoot it in micro scale, I've never really worked at that scale before so it looks like it might be challenging and fun to build a whole skyline.

I am going to the LEGO store today go see what pick a brick has to offer, I am going to try and loosely create a space needle free Seattle coastal skyline. The lack of windows and just vertical stripes was loosely inspired by one of the buildings on our skyline, I have built 3 more buildings but I do have some brick based limitations (hopefully pick a brick can fix that)

Edit: While doing some reserch this was the most inspiring thing I found. Something kind of like this is 'sort of' what I want for the skyline.

I don't really like the Space Needle, plus it's in Queen Ann, and that neighborhood isn't in the skyline from the sound, Seattle people recognize the Colombia tower and the cranes, oh the cranes, there will have to be more of those...

I now have 10 major skyscrapers for my skyline, I'd like to build about 5 more before I start setting up the city's grid and adding the smaller filler buildings, I am having a LOT of fun building in micro scale. I went to the LEGO store yesterday and cleared out there light grey 1x2 grill bricks and picked up some other (not as useful) elements.

Well I have been working on this off and on for the last four years, believe it or not I have got more animation done since the last update and it is actually looking like I will finish this. In about 3 week I will be taking two months off work just to finish the animation for this film. Currently I am working on one of the main scenes which happens to be the biggest set I have ever worked on.

This is the establishing shot for this scene, and I dreaded shooting it for years, I finally did an animation marathon a few weeks ago shooting from 8 PM to 5PM with two naps. The shot is composed of about 14 layers (each car is a separate layer) and everything was exposed at 1.6 seconds, that way I could push the cars individually and get a natural blur, they are then added over the minifig layers which were animated normally. Once I started I could not stop shooting because if I left, and the camera shifted at all I would have to redo everything. As you may have noticed the masking is not complete and some layers are blurred over others.

Currently I am working on blasting a hole in the white art deco building which made me realize I would have to build an interior for it, so I am working on the poshest looking office ever, thankfully I won't have to animate details inside it.

Looking forward to the finished project.

I gotta say that your sets are amazing (not just from this post, but for the whole thing)! And it sounds like you're pretty serious about finishing this, if you're going to be taking time off work. Also, around how long do you think this video will end up being?

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