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Fans of the epic movie Star Wars will definitely get a kick out of the Lego versions of the movie. These versions of the popular epic tale shows Lego warriors and Lego versions of the popular characters of the movie in scenes that were captured with the use of stop motion animation. What exactly is stop motion capture and how can a person make Lego movies, like these Star Wars Lego movies with the use of stop motion? What are the equipments needed to create these stop motion film clips and how long does it take to finish a clip?
These are often the questions that people who watch these short Lego film clips ask and the answers are pretty simple. Stop motion is a type of animation wherein the subjects of the movie, in this case Lego characters and Lego brick scenery, are moved a few millimeters at a time and these minute movements are then captured on film, one frame at a time. Once these small movements are captured on film, the next move is to compile these captured movements in the right sequence to show that these characters are moving. This kind of a technique that is used by Lego in such movie clips like Lego Star Wars and Lego Lord of the Rings has actually been used for quite a while now. This was how old movie dinosaurs and imaginary creatures were created, before computer graphic imagery or CGI became the normal thing to use for film producers who needed fictional and extinct creatures and characters on set.
The use of stop motion for Lego films is now a pretty fun hobby for those who love these building bricks and the possibilities that they present to an imaginative mind. There are a lot of film clips that you can view to see how people use their creativity, their Lego bricks and their cameras to create such funny and amazing Lego movies.