Topic: Hand-Shaking in Brickfilms (And their inventor?)
I've been watching a lot of brickfilms recently (something I love to do). And, I've come across a handful of them, now, that feature a hand-shake in the video. It's a really cool little trick, and, it's not too hard to do, even though it's not as easy as something such as a walk cycle. (Sometimes, you have to get the angle right to make it appear as if the figs are shaking hands, especially when they're not exactly opposite each other)
And, now that a question has popped up in my head, I'm on a quest to answer it. That question is: Did I sort of "invent" the LEGO hand-shake?
Now, I'm not trying to toot my own horn here, or anything like that, however, I'm yet to find a brickfilm made before my March 6th, 2010 LEGO JAWS 2 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH-gu2NvU00 (It's not very good, but, It's high point is probably the great-looking handshake in the middle)
I understand that other brickfilmers out there are also very likely to have the same idea, and roll with it. But, I think it'd be really cool if I was one of, it not the, first brickfilmer to feature a hand-shake in a brickfilm!
If anyone wants to shear their hand-shake animating stories, or has evidence of a brickfilm made before mine featuring a handshake, then, by all means, please respond.