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''The LEGO Movie'' was conceived by Swiss artist and "[[Wikipedia:renaissance man|renaissance man]]" Dent-de-Lion "Dandi" du Midi, the film's director, | ''The LEGO Movie'' was conceived by Swiss artist and "[[Wikipedia:renaissance man|renaissance man]]" Dent-de-Lion "Dandi" du Midi, the film's director, along with 3D artist Claude Aebersold. The two first had met in the fall of 1991 when Aebersold, at the time an 18-year-old photography student working at a computer shop in [[Wikipedia:Bern|Bern]], helped deliver hardware to du Midi's studio in [[Wikipedia:Beatenberg|Beatenberg]]. A year later du Midi visited a new store in Bern, Computer Studio, which Aebersold had switched to. Aebersold showed du Midi his [[Wikipedia:3D modeling|3D modeling]] projects, and the two became friends over their shared interests in computer technology and 3D graphics. Aebersold travelled to Beatenberg every few weeks to work on 3D animation projects with du Midi, and the two discussed potential projects while walking in the mountains of the [[Wikipedia:Emmental Alps|Emmental Alps]].{{R|Bits N' Bricks 16|pp=1, 9-10}} One day during late summer 1993,<ref name="Furer vimeo desc"/> du Midi and Aebersold discussed how 3D animation at the time looked like plastic, and what projects could be successful despite this limitation.{{R|Bits N' Bricks 16|pp=10}} Later after putting his son Frodo to bed, du Midi noticed the LEGO bricks in his son's toy basket and had an idea to create a LEGO movie for Frodo’s birthday next November.<ref name="Gomez Lego Movie"/>{{R|Bits N' Bricks 16|pp=10}} | ||
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Revision as of 21:53, 18 December 2024
| The LEGO Movie | |
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 Title cart | |
| Directed by | Dent-de-Lion du Midi |
| Music by | Dent-de-Lion du Midi |
| Animation by |
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Production company | Animagica Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 4 minutes |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | English |
The LEGO Movie is a 1994 Swiss animated short film produced by Animagica Production and directed by Dent-de-Lion du Midi.
Synopsis
The animation opens on a Blacktron base on Planet Lego IV. A Blacktron pilot lands his Star Rider spaceship and is given a device he uses to disassemble his spaceship and suck the pieces up. A danger alarm goes off, and an astronaut from a Radar Patrol gives the pilot a report on a Space Police Hunter ship. The pilot takes off with a jet-pack, followed by a swarm of Blacktron ships. The film cuts to the Space Police fleet, where an officer in one of the ships is being spied on by the Blacktron pilot. The officer switches his monitor between different scenes, of a Space Police Commando ship, a Blacktron Intruder Force ship, a news report by "Larry Lego" of the Spyrius base being attacked by a robot, and finally an asteroid field. The jet-pack pilot appears floating in the asteroid field before transforming into a Star Rider and flying away.
The short film is structured like a film trailer for a non-existent feature film. The film opens with cast run listing fictional LEGO actors supposedly in the film, such as "Arnold Lego" and "Tom Duplo", alongside the production company and director. At the end is a billing block, featuring the same fictional actors but also crediting its animators.
Production
The LEGO Movie was conceived by Swiss artist and "renaissance man" Dent-de-Lion "Dandi" du Midi, the film's director, along with 3D artist Claude Aebersold. The two first had met in the fall of 1991 when Aebersold, at the time an 18-year-old photography student working at a computer shop in Bern, helped deliver hardware to du Midi's studio in Beatenberg. A year later du Midi visited a new store in Bern, Computer Studio, which Aebersold had switched to. Aebersold showed du Midi his 3D modeling projects, and the two became friends over their shared interests in computer technology and 3D graphics. Aebersold travelled to Beatenberg every few weeks to work on 3D animation projects with du Midi, and the two discussed potential projects while walking in the mountains of the Emmental Alps.[2]: 1, 9–10 One day during late summer 1993,[3] du Midi and Aebersold discussed how 3D animation at the time looked like plastic, and what projects could be successful despite this limitation.[2]: 10 Later after putting his son Frodo to bed, du Midi noticed the LEGO bricks in his son's toy basket and had an idea to create a LEGO movie for Frodo’s birthday next November.[4][2]: 10
Macintosh Quadra 950 with 64 MB of memory. StrataVision 3D for modeling, StrataStudio Pro for animation. Photoshop, Premiere.[7]
Aebersold and Furer each animated and composited about half of the film.[3]
References
- ↑ Furer, Alex (2009). "Animagica – The LEGO Movie". Full Frame Studios. Archived from the original on 14 December 2024. Retrieved 14 December 2024. The given date of 26 August 1994 is assumed to be the date the film was completed rather than the date the article was published.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Crecente, Brian; Vincent, Ethan (March 24, 2021). "Episode 16 – Darwin" (PDF). Bits N' Bricks (Podcast). Participants: Claude Aebersold, Alex Furer, Julian Gómez, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, and Bjarne Tveskov. The LEGO Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 11, 2024. Retrieved December 11, 2024. Audio version via YouTube.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Furer, Alex (October 31, 2011). "LEGO - The Movie". Vimeo (Video description). Archived from the original on February 27, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
- ↑ Gómez, Julian (February 7, 2014). "The LEGO Movie (1994)". LEGO Darwin. Archived from the original on September 28, 2022.
- ↑ Furer, Alex (February 5, 2014). "Very nice article Julian!". LEGO Darwin (Comment on post "The LEGO Movie (1994)"). Archived from the original on September 28, 2022.
- ↑ Robertson, David C.; Breen, Bill (2013). "Boosting Innovation". Brick by Brick: How LEGO rewrote the rules of innovation (First ed.). New York: Crown Publishing Group. pp. 53–55. ISBN 978-0-307-95160-1.
- ↑ Furer, Alex (2005). "1994 / 1995 - ANIMAGICA, Switzerland". Full Frame Studios. Archived from the original on 14 December 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
External links
- The LEGO Movie on Vimeo
