Comments on: Frequently Asked Questions

By: Jonozilla

Jonozilla — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:03:29 +0000

I love some of the vids you’ve made, but i was wondering: How do you animate the faces onto the minifigs in your films? what is the software?

By: Ol

Ol — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:31:37 +0000

How do you animate the mouths?

By: Pedro horchulhack

Pedro horchulhack — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:08:14 +0000

How do You make a lego face?

By: oblong pictures

oblong pictures — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:11:27 +0000

When I bought SMP4 there weren’t any different options – just one package.

By: AgentNickyPickles

AgentNickyPickles — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:49:33 +0000

Cool vids! the animation is great! when you say “Stop Motion pro 4″ do you use Action!, Action!Plus, Action! HD, Studio HD, or Studio HD Plus?

By: Gravis

Gravis — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:11:40 +0000

Yea….I have to say, i have been making stop motion all my life and yours are just stunning! the lighting, the smoothness of the film, the expressions…it just all flows! but there is one thing i dont know how you do….and thats the expressions on the mini figures faces! do you make custom heads, or use a program like motion to key them in?

By: swamper

swamper — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:36:56 +0000

Hey Ready Salted Chris. Are you the same Chris Salt who’s directing this show on the Beeb right now about losing weight?

By: ruphondorm

ruphondorm — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:15:26 +0000

How do you get to be so cool? now you have been asked that question

By: Elia

Elia — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:31:02 +0000

How do you get your minifigures to blink/change emotions? I’m pretty sure there aren’t any minifigure heads with their eyes closed.

By: September14th2010_Visitor

September14th2010_Visitor — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:37:23 +0000

Been wanting to express how much I appreciate and value some of your lego minifig videos. I originally came across ‘Out of Time’ about 3 weeks ago, around the last weeks of August. ‘Words of Wisdom’ also was viewed then, and I found it pretty cool. Only today did that video, the quote, and your work return to the forefront of my mind (for pretty random reasons). Doing a Youtube search, watching a few more of your videos (’Fight Like Apes – Knucklehead’ and ‘Movember’ are wonderful concepts and fun pieces to watch as a lego fan), eventually led me to your site here, browsing a bit, reading some of the pages, the comments, etc.

From behind-the-scene shots from ‘Star Wars: A Wasted Journey’ and ‘The Making of Knucklehead’ one can see how you’ve filmed your scenes very much so like how real movie sets done — you only create what necessary props/background/settings are needed for the shot frame, and you do it well to bring a believable realism and ‘lego realism’ factors to the videos. In addition, so many of your videos are short but always filled with entertaining, moving, or just nice and short features. ‘Mike and Geoff’s Holiday Message ‘, ‘Tough Questions’, and ‘Words of Wisdom’ really stood out to me in that regard.

Well done on this ‘hobby’ you put in alongside from writing financial software for a living. It is a strange pattern, but great, entertaining, down-to-earth things from people, especially on Youtube, always end up being simply something they do for fun, voluntarily, as a hobby, a side interest, and so on.

Hope you’ve enjoyed the journey of making those short-films with lego, I only hope more lego fans may get a chance to see your work and have a friendly chuckle in the near future.

~ September14th2010_Visitor