随所に映るバンドの動きや顔のアップの表情が、通常のアニメとはちょっと違うような気がしたので、その秘訣を掘ってみた。
以下は http://www.director-file.com から。
RES gives a full account of Gondry's process. "I really like the basic-ness of the music - one voice, one guitar, and one drum. I like this concept, and I thought it was very close to the primary color of the Lego blocks." On the video's creation: "We shot a very basic video of the band [in London], we edited it and then we had a program that pixelized the video, roughly the size of the Lego blocks and then we printed each frame [25 frames per second] on paper. Then we had an animation team building up Lego blocks to match each frame. Then we reshot each of those frames on a film camera. We didn't have enough Legos to do more than five frames at a time, so after five frames were shot [the Legos] were demolished to build the next five frames."
手順を簡単にまとめると、
1. 撮影と編集
バンドの演奏、プールに飛び込みなどのシーン。ここまでは普通。
2. ビデオをピクセラレート
各フレームをレゴで組める解像度までダウンサンプリングする。
3. 映像の各フレームを紙に出力する
25コマ/秒で！
4. 組立てチームが紙を元にレゴを組み立ててコマ撮り撮影
5フレーム分しかレゴの手持ちが無いので、5フレーム単位で組立て〜撮影を行ったとのこと。
できたビデオはこちら。(youtube)
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