Animation works starts (almost) ...

So, work has officially started on my epic lego stop-motion movie Metal Gear Sausage, though it's not going as smoothly as I'd have liked. There's about seven weeks to go until the Breakpoint 06 event in Germany and FMS will be a joint entry with Emanuel (who's doing all the sounds including a groovy 8-bit remix of the Metal Gear Solid theme).

However ... set building has proven to be a bigger pain in the posterior then I'd planned for and so far it's taken two whole evenings just getting the comcorder to play nice with the PC, the lighting set up and the fairly minimal sets and backgrounds up to speed.

FMS should weigh in at about five minutes and is the story of an inventor who creates a robot to make sausages for him (I didn't say it was 24 now, did I ?) Anyways, the robot runs amok after trapping his head in a microwave oven, havoc occurs and in a big finale the inventor finally defeats his evil creation with a cannon - what more can you ask for from a low budget production? It's hardly Brokeback Mountain or the Blair Witch Project (but then are no gay cowboys or ghosts in it).

FMS will be my second short animation, the first one, Zombie Attack can be downloaded here if you're foolish enough to be interested. In the mean time it's back to work for Crussell. Honestly, I don't know how George Lucas does it ...