While professional animation and modeling software like Maya was used for creating the images seen in the film, all the LEGO sets and scenery had to be 100% accurate and something that could be constructed from actual bricks. (If you’re looking to get some of those labels for your own credits sequence, or labeling bins of LEGO check them out here !) How was the LEGO Movie Animated?Ī great sneak-peek of the animation process is found in a BTS video from the folks at CG MeetUp. The final zoom-out, with the individual regions of LEGO stop motion required multiple animators and tens of thousands of individual increments to complete.
From start to finish the credits animation production took two months. This confirmed most of LEGO Movie was animated via CGI, with the exception of… the awesome credits sequence! This was made with thousands of real LEGO bricks by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (creators of the Robot Chicken series). dX1SK49RJNįinally after the movie was released, Chris Miller tweeted some more it was mostly CG with some stop motion & also some real LEGO still sets comped in. He then posted an image of a classic LEGO Space set, which proved to be a red herring, because prior to the movie’s release nobody knew that Will Ferrell was making a live-action appearance at the end, and this set was used during the filming of this sequence.ĭay 1 of 5-day Lego Movie live-action shoot with Will Ferrell. CG w/ real Lego elements done in a photoreal stop-motion style. To curious: #TheLegoMovie is a hybrid film. Phil Lord - “We started from the place of the LEGO fan-films that you see online, that have a level of creativity that is so inspiring, and we thought that if we made a movie that looked like you gave one of those people a bunch of money - that would turn out pretty good" Chris Miller - “It’s a hybrid, part of it is CG, part of it is LEGO, and we don’t want people to know which part is which, the whole point is to be as seamless as possible”