DESPITE THE BLOCKY.herky-jerky quality of the visuals, 2014's The Lego Movie and this February's spinoff, The Lego Batman Movie, were not actually filmed in stop-motion. It would have cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy the bricks alone. But Lego Batman's director, Chris McKay, labored to replicate the analog effect digitally, drawing on his work for TV shows like Robot Chicken. So we asked him for some tips on how to make a (legitimately stop-motion) Lego movie of our own. Low-budget, of course-we don't have tens of thousands either.
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