THE MATRIX IN LEGO BY TREVOR BOYD AND STEVE ILETT
December 8, 2009 - 12:17pm — Lydia Slavutin
Australian animators, Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett, put their creative powers (and nerdyness) into recreating the famous bullet-dodging scene from The Matrix.
The design process took 440 hours! They started by taking video frames one by one of the scene, which amounted to almost 900 frames for the mere 44 seconds of footage! Of the lengthy process, Boyd and Ilett say:
"Early in the piece we decided we wanted to do everything 'in camera'. No wire-removal, no special effects, no crazy Photoshop tricks. We pretty much regret this now, but I guess it gives us bragging rights of some sort. We went to great lengths to match camera angles, lighting conditions, continuity errors, focal depths and so on, but obviously we had to work within the limitations of point and shoot cameras and the Lego medium. Not having any knees or elbows on the minifigs can make it tricky to reproduce the actor's movements, but we tried our best."
Boyd and Ilett even created a website about the project, including all things legoMatrix related. Check it out here.
I think they succeeded in every aspect of this lego-designed recreation!! Watch it now!
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erik nitsche
The mid century design movements have always inspired me. Here is a few examples of one designer I only just recently discovered. Here is a link to a Flickr photo stream of more of his work: www.flickr.com/photos/eriknitsche/
Swiss-born American graphic designer, Erik Nitsche (1908-1998) working in his studio at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Taken from an issue of American Artist. Photograph by Stephan Hajn
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