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Setting the bar a little higher than your average Lego stop frame animation meant we had to
develop a bunch of technology outside of the ordinary movie maker type tools. Here's where
you'll read about exactly how crazy we got with this.
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LegoBoard LegoBoard was the system used to generate the intro and end credit sequences. It allowed us to produce those 2D animations without resorting to tedious block-twiddling. Click on the image to read up on how this system came to be, and what it can do. Obviously the thumbnail here is in true-colour, rather than your traditional Lego colours. | |
ttfbanner ttfbanner is a command line program that generates ascii art characters from an input line of text using outlines found in a truetype font file (ttf). It is the ttf version of the old unix 'banner' program. | |
tgl tgl is a homebrew scripted graphics "language", which can be used to perform various image manipulation like resizing, distorting, drawing on it and so on. | |
The Audio A freeware sound editor, the original movie audio in glorious 5.1 and some creative editing. |