ok, had lunch with the director, Chris, on Monday.
Here’s what’s up:
- We’re doing this.
- Chris doesn’t want this to be a stressful thing or a time consuming thing for anyone
- He’s talking with Chris of Benstonium.com to do the animation of the mouth/eyes/eyebrows to save on stop motion needs
- Chris will send us a list of more popular jokes/bits and we will work to recreate those in short clips, so we’ll work to create those “sets” once he tells us
- He wasn’t too impressed with the selection of LEGO official heads. I’m talking to Tommy Armstrong (brickprinter) and Minifigs.me with possible solutions for custom heads. Chris said he has a little budget to work with for things like this
- We’re good to start building the intro houses/scene. We might need a few people to collaborate here, not just on the houses, but the street, yards, and maybe even the sky…we need to fill the full camera shot to pull it off. (chris mentioned he wasn’t happy with his attempt for this reason, so if we want to impress him, we need to put the effort in, maybe micro scale instead of minifig scale?)
- I was thinking about doing a time lapse against a green background of building a brick built “Pittsburgh Dad” lettering that could then be layered with video in the background
- Told him we have some winter shows we’re working on now, but we should be able to focus energy on this once November comes.
- There’s a LEGO app for stop motion videos. Anyone want to play around with that and see what they do for animating faces?
- Chris mentioned wanting a LEGO bust of Pittsburgh Dad…not sure what they’d use it for yet, but would come up with something…anyone want to take that on?