Bricks in Motion
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I fell in love with stretch and squash doing some CG stuff and wanted to bring that back to brick films, this was my first test, it did require a few piece modifications though.
This is a great use of pieces, and good example of delayed secondary reaction, in the head and hair. I try to use this when female chars with flowing hair turn their head (like when Emmet meets WyldStyle for the 1st time in Lego movie).
Just a really good squash when returning the feet to the ground after the jump. I like the use of the 1x2 brick as a torso. In the earlier days of Lego, before the minifigure was int he form we know today (with moveable arms and legs), I used 1x2 bricks for feet and a 1x2 plate for a belt, and a 1x2 brick with a jumper plate on top for a torso (no arms were used, just like the predecessors to minifigures in my day) When I ran out of heads (which had no faces), I went to yellow 1x1 round bricks.
The low depth of field is apparent and only make the figure crisper and bolder. The color scheme is nice, too.
There is a bit of custom work in these, right now it's all held together with sticky tack, but one of the 1x2 plates was drilled out so the legs could go through it, and the two cheese wedges had holes drilled into them so they could fit arms in them. The 1x1 plates on the feet had one side shaved off so the gap in the legs would stay the same. It's pretty hard to notice because these modified bricks are only on screen for a few frames at a time.
Looks incredible, even better considering it's your first test.
I'd say the next step is to find a hairpiece of a similar colour that spikes upwards (that's very specific and i don't know if it exists) and replace the original hair with it as the mini figure moves towards the ground. That'd create a stronger cartoony feel as it has an even more exaggerated overlapping-secondary animation to it. [in addition to the spiked up hair, you could add a long-straight-hairpiece as its body extends upwards but it may not work depending on the length of the hairpiece you use].
This is one of the best uses of squash and stretch in brickfilms so far, next to the robot arcade video that came out this year.
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