File:Frozen Fingers

Description
A video I made for a class in which I had to come up with a creative solution to a problem. The problem? Frozen fingers while typing on a laptop. You sure don't want to end up like this guy! This video is for a commercial skit in which the salesman uses the video to sell my idea to someone experiencing the problem. I refused to use boring Power Point so I decided to do a video (with a current popular musical referenced and sung), then a commercial skit mixed with the LEGO animation, and then another video. No power point

I used the LEGO Stop Motion app to record the video. In order to move him, I had to take him out of the room for each frame hence the slight earthquake which I tried to smooth out as best I could. Over all, the animation was short, sweet, and to the point. Obviously it's not a stand-alone video as it's part of the presentation. The music is a clip from a LEGO tv show, LEGO Ninjago.

Notice I used putty to replace his hand with the blue bricks. I also used SNOT (Studs Not On Top) techniques to attach the laptop to his foot so I could just remove him, pose him, and put him back effectively.

Coming up with a way to transform his hand into ice was interesting. I ended up adding a 1X1 stud, then a blue diamond, twisting his hand with the diamond until you didn't see the hand, then removing the hand and replacing it with the 1X1 stud attached with putty, and finally adding the 1X1 cone. Scooping the putty out of his arm hole was an unintended consequences of this sequence but I got it all out.