I must be living under a rock.
I just rented the Monty Python - Holy Grail - Special Edition. In the bonus section there is a Lego version of the Camelot Song.
Found it on line, it’s been around since 2001! I don’t know how four years passed before I discovered this.
Now to go back under my rock…
I think I actually did see that back in the 2001-2002 era. They follow the scenes extremely well for being in lego. I’ve tried to do one once and it is icredibly dificult and requires the sooo much patience.
ya my step brother owns thatits freekin sweet.
the kid hoo got me into uni’ing does lego stop animation for school projects and stuff
Does PHIL know about this?!?
I have a friend who is way into Monty Python… he showed me that way back. Cool stuff. I just got a new camcorder for Xmas and it has a specific feature on it for doing animation. I’ve not played with it yet, but surely will at some point.
And way, way WAY back, my brother and Mike Kazaleh (the guy who drew the Unicycle Factory logo) animated a Monty Python Gumby character made of lego. That was in around 1978, on super 8 film!
How on earth?
Did the camera have a stop-go function or did they splice-and-tape?
Animation. Pixelation, to be precise (I think, unless that term only applies to live subjects). His camera had an animation feature, which allowed you to click off one frame at a time. Put the camera on a tripod, tape down your green Lego base, and take your time. Mr. Gumby can sing, dance, do a flip, and even slide off camera and then grow up out of the base, layer by layer!
Then your brother films you (pixelation) hopping on your unicycle. First he does a single frame every time your wheel is down, making it look like you’re sliding along the ground (without your wheel turning). Then he clicks it every time your wheel is off the ground, and you “fly” off into the distance, about 6" off the ground. We did that in 1980.
I should get those converted to digital somehow…
Mike Kazaleh was very into animation. After those early fun projects, he went on to animate the New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Tiny Tunes, Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles commercials, and many more. Good old-fashioned cell animation.
Hurrah for Lego and Monty Python! I love the brief inclusion of the parrot sketch in that video…
I’ve done a few stop-motion videos involving lego people and copious volumes of blu-tack. It is not an activity for impatient people, especially when you spend ages doing a fiddly bit only to then notice you’ve accidentally left a blob of blu-tack, a screwdriver or some other foreign object in the background for half the shots. Aaargh!
I have two of my videos online here; I have another half-made Matrix-inspired fight between a legoman and an evil blu-tack monster, but I never got around to finishing it properly.
Thanks for the heads-up GILD… 
Phil
If you check the website of the company that made that short, there’s a fantastic spiderman parody. This is possibly the best lego stop-motion I’ve ever seen, after Phil’s excellent getting-shot-in-the-face effort.
Loose.
Is that a plasma-lamp on the corner of the desk?
me and my buddy alex have made a 4 minute movie with dragon ball z action figures… its freaking awesome
Chase
Ooooh, link?
And yeah, the Monty Python thing, it’s completely awesome, 'n stuff. Word.
I really hate monty python.
I do love legos and stop motion animation, though.
Sorry, that’s not me in there (the unicyclist in the Sledgehammer video). I wonder who it was?
If you pause & step-by step the sledgehammer video you can see its not actually a unicycle (probably they’d have a hard time keeping it still for the photos), but something more like a reversed skatebike… Its got 2 feet that extend backwards from the frame and touch the floor, so if you rode it they’d keep you upright.
Loose.
That sound exactly like the machine Yoopers has/had up for sale.
While we’re talking about yon Pythons…
Ah this was on the monty python dvd’s that i bought 2 years ago. im not to sure but there might be 2 lego things on the dvd, its been a while since ive watched it.
Trev
That’s fascinating! And I guess a necessary device if you’re doing true stop-motion and want your unicycle to move consistently. It passes by very quickly in the video in either case, but I never noticed the “feet” on the unicycle.
I would assume they are not wheels, as the idea would probably be for the unicyclist to remain stationary for each frame. Skids might make this easier.