I'm not a huge fan of the wholly CG LEGO animation approach, but I admit the rendering and lighting in this video was a marked improvement from your previous work -- the shaders all looked pretty natural.  I liked the customized hair on some of the characters.  The DOF added depth without being too much.  I thought the concept was pretty effective and music-videoy, that is the cutting between the band and a strained romantic relationship.  A bit cliché perhaps but then the song lends itself to that kind of story, and obviously you were going for something like the band's other videos, with which I'm not familiar.  Very nice mouth animation, it didn't really look very LEGO to me but having teeth and a tongue is helpful for this sort of vocal work.

That was the best lego music video I've ever seen.
Beautiful.

No, I enabled Indirect lighting which helped gave it more natural lighting but with the aforementioned flickering.  It might have to do with ambient occlusion which I didn't enable.

But I'm fine with it, makes the perfect CG world look imperfect.

It also looks hella cool.

*Double take* Wait, what?  As in actual bricks that I don't have and in those color with those decals, hair and faces?

Btw, I broke several LEGO purity laws and the laws of physics for those instruments.  The cello, for instance, was flatten a bit so the cellist could actually reach around it.  The guitars cannot be physically built without glue and the cymbal stands would have been cut up bars.

If I had the modeling and sculpting skill, I'd have given the girl the ponytail hairpiece.

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Meaning actual LEGO rather than CGI.

Gawd I want to marry this. Maybe it's just because I love the song, but this was fantastic.

Thanks guys.

Thanks Ireland.