BATMAN!

Earlier today, the first trailer for The Lego Batman Movie was released, and, as a fan of Legos, Batman and movies, I am quite excited. The Lego Movie, released back in 2014, was a surprisingly good and very fun movie, and Lego Batman was one of the best characters in it. I am also a fan of how the people responsible for making both of these movies were able to create a fully computer-generated feature that also sometimes appears as though they just used stop-motion with the actual figurines. The simplistic aesthetics of the Lego blocks and figures make the goofy behaviors and dialogue exhibited by the characters feel more believable, which might not have worked as well with real actors in a real-world environment.

Here's the trailer:

The LEGO Movie Credit Sequence

One of the most popular movies that came out last year was "The Lego Movie." This movie gained a lot of attention because of its insane cast consisting of Will Ferrell, Allison Brie, Morgan Freeman, and many more.

What makes this movie so interesting is the fact that the entire world shot in this movie is made from LEGO's. Most of the film is done in fluent stop motion as the main characters are portrayed as plastic.

One of the coolest things in this film in my opinion was the ending credit sequence, which tracked through many different tiny scenes consisting of LEGO's. While there isn't much motion graphics in here other than possibly the camera tracking and maybe some moving LEGO pieces, I felt this stop motion was so incredibly well done, and that the use of programs like After Effects for the mouth movements really made this film possible.

And what a film it was!

The LEGO Movie

I have heard so many people recently talking about The LEGO Movie. So many people even college students are excited to go an see the movies. Rottentomatos which is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films, widely known as a film review aggregator, gave The LEGO Movie a 97% saying "Boasting beautiful animation, a charming voice cast, laugh-a-minute gags, and a surprisingly thoughtful story, The Lego Movie is colorful fun for all ages." Here is the trailer for the movie.

The lego movie is mostly made for CG animation but there is some stop motion as well. The thing that I am really impressed with is how realistic the lego pieces look. The pieces have the seams just like they would if they were made as toys. The aim was to also make it look like the toys had been used or played with outside/before the movie. There is one character that really stands out in that spectrum, The Charlie Day, who is an eighties-era spaceman, looks like he’s been well-loved, stepped on and chewed on.

After reading from different articles and hearing things from friends I will most likely be seeing this movie in the near future. Who's in?