from Mick M

The other day we finally managed 2 finish our motion capture scenes for the intro of our lego movie which was to be set for children to watch.
Ill admit it wasnt the best childrens film ever because we included slapping a woman and stealing babies.
But it was good in the fact that we only used lego, we included a dragon, and involved a baby which in a way a child can relate to because like babies they are still young.
I liked it that we included a dragon cause it makes it easier for children to be interested in, because children love the whole fantasy style. E.g. like lord of the rings which was based for a child's age group, and included dragons and orc's and dwarves and all other sorts of monsters, yet it ended up interesting many of the older ages. And there are even groups that play fight with little character figurines so it has definately captured a wider audience than the original producer's thought it could have. Which in turn brought more money into the whole film which meant they could do even more amazing visual animations in the following 2 more movies.
Troubles
- we had some trouble with filming while we were trying to make our lego good guys and bad guys jump and float, cuz we had to use some string to keep them hoisted in the air and make it look like they were falling also, which made it very tricky cuz we had to time the motion capture and the speed at which the lego was moving just right.
- we also had problems with the amount of fingers and hands in our image capture, this was either because of the fact that our string was a tad too small or that we were not concentrating on the images that were being captured.