I have joined forces with David Pagano to produce a new blog about animations made with LEGO bricks tentatively titled BrickAnimation.com. It is a natural continuation of the work the two of us did in putting together issue 14 of Brickjournal and we have big plans for the site. In the coming months, we’re planning [...]
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Stop Motion Animation: An Introduction
Last week I gave a talk to the student film group at my alma mater about the basics of stop motion animation. In it, I cover the many different forms of stop motion, basic tools of the trade and my current animation setups The University of Chicago Alumni Magazine also did a great write-up of [...]
ROBOphelia vs. Grabbor
I don’t typically write about individual episodes of NNN on this site, I usually wait until a chapter is complete and write about it as a whole. But I spent a lot of time documenting my creative process when animating the most recent episode, so it ties in very closely to the How to Animate [...]
How to Animate: An Introduction
The most recent issue of BrickJournal (a magazine made for and by LEGO fans) is focused on LEGO animation. My friend and fellow LEGO animator, David Pagano, was a guest editor for this issue and did a great job getting together some amazing articles about various aspects of LEGO animation. I contributed an article designed [...]