“The LEGO Movie,†is the full length, first ever theatrical LEGO adventure, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, and it was opened in theaters February 7, 2014
February 20th, 2014
“The LEGO Movie,” is the full length, first ever theatrical LEGO adventure, directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, and it was opened in theaters February 7, 2014. It is an American computer animated family comedy and it is based on the Lego line of construction toys. The LEGO Movie animated story follows Emmet (Chris Pratt) an ordinary, rules- following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is erroneously recognized as the most sinful person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
In this movie, visuals are spectacular and the 3D technology is artfully utilized and the story is jam-packed with so many funny lines, it is difficult to catch all the jokes that are delivered in rapid-fire succession constantly tweaking many popular culture icons. The film’s animation style is purposely simplistic and jerky.
Nelvana Enterprises have signed a new broadcast deal with the BBC for its animated series, Sidekick. The series is scheduled to air on the UK public broadcaster’s kids’ channel,
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
