The LEGO Movie character design

Long before Emmet declared “Everything is awesome!” in The LEGO Movie, people all over the world proved that you could create awesome stop-motion animation with LEGO bricks. In fact, ‘brickfilms’ were a huge influence on The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller and Animal Logic, the Australian studio who created the animation for the 2014 smash hit. Though the film is entirely computer generated (CG), the filmmakers wanted the realistic LEGO look of brickfilms, so they made sure the sets could physically be made from real bricks and the characters only moved the way LEGO does in real life. This authenticity extended to how the CG characters were designed - you’ll notice that Emmet, Lucy, Batman and the whole gang are covered in fingerprints, dust and scratches – just like real LEGO!