How to shoot a stop-motion Star Wars Lego film
When the new Star Wars movie trailer came out last week, YouTuber Snooperking recreated the 60 second teaser shot-by-shot–with Lego.
Here’s the original:
We wondered, how does one make a stop-motion Lego film? Some digging revealed this tutorial.
Ingredients to shoot a stop-motion Lego film:
- A good camera with a remote control to minimize camera movement
- Lego bricks and figurines
- Desk lamps outfitted with filters or gels
- Video editing software like Premiere Pro to compile all the photographs
- Patience
Aleszu Bajak was the founding editor of Storybench. He is currently the director of data visualization at the Urban Institute. Previously, he was a senior data reporter on USA TODAY's data team, part of the newspaper's national investigative unit. He is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at M.I.T., was a founding senior writer at Undark magazine and founding editor of Esquire Classic, a project resuscitating the magazine's archives. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, M.I.T. Technology Review and Nature.
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