Can you do something with Lego for carcraft went the email.
Well, yes. I can hand it to my son and his ZU3D kit, and let him animate it.
So here you go. One Carcraft Lego high speed chase. All Small’s own work. He’s good, isn’t he?
(and yes, I’ve spoken to him about clearing the table before he does animations in future. It’s not his wine. Honest. )
Actually, I’m going to take a minute here to wax lyrical about lego and animation. I think it’s brilliant. It’s creative, it spans the ages, and it’s not messy. Yes, it goes all over the floor, but you can clear it up really easily. Small has spent hours on this today, but he enjoyed it. And Tigerboy was sat alongside him for most of the time (check out my Silent Sunday for photo evidence). And right now, as I deal with this post, I’ve got the two little ones sat at the table playing with lego again.
I love lego. It’s good stuff. So thanks for the inspiration Carcraft, you done good.
Edited – for anyone who is interested in ZU3D – Small has blogged it further (with other animations) here and you can buy it on play.com here (affiliate link.)
Stephs Two Girls says
Love it – we’re big Zu3D fans here too!! Fab when they’re being creative, isn’t it?!
Carly says
Wow! This looks ace! You’re right Lego is fantastic stuff – my 5 yr old loves Lego but 1 yr old would swallow it so we use Megablocks while he’s around for the time being.
Jax Blunt says
Our nearly two year old is now lego safe, you don’t have long to go 🙂
Hannah says
Amazing. So creative & great skills.
We love Lego here too but haven’t looked at animation yet.
Jax Blunt says
I highly recommend ZU3D then, small has done a lot with it. Really easy to get going.
Anne says
So impressive and inspiring! We are interested in animation and zu3d looks an ideal way to start so I’m doubly glad I stopped by. Thank you Jax & Small!
Jax Blunt says
I highly recommend it.
Looking for blue Sky says
I would LOVE my son to do stuff like this, it’s wonderful!
Kerry says
Wow. That’s fabulous and will be the first thing I show my son tomorrow. He is Lego mad and just getting into animation after watching the little tutorial thing on the batman lego DVD. He’s going to find this very inspiring. I suppose I need to go investigate ZU3D. 🙂
Thanks to both
The Funster says
Jax
First of all the animation was great. My daughters are big LEGO fans (and I have to admit I am too 🙂 ) But I’m not that familiar with ZU3D. I’m going to have to check this out. If my girls could do animation like you displayed here, they would be ecstatic. Thank you for the great post!
Jax Blunt says
I’m told (by the 10 year old) that ZU3D is really easy to use. It comes with everything you need – webcam and so on – and a tutorial. Hope you enjoy.
The Funster says
Thank you Jax, I’ll let you when I get the ZU3D and start using it :)!