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“Done” is better than “perfect," right? This short film was concepted, animated, lit, and rendered over the course of 72 hours for the LEGO® Star Wars™ 25-Second Film Festival.

A “Kit of Parts” was provided by the festival which included sound effects and several music tracks, so that was super fun to piece together initially to help make up a story; the idea here is: Whatever happened to Obi-Wan’s lightsaber after his duel in Episode IV? While I had to rely on limited animation and shader detail to get this done, I had a blast creating something for it, not to mention designing the background sets based on the actual movie using the online LEGO building platform called Mecabricks.

Side note: I had previously written a Python script to streamline shader setup, since OBJs from Mecabricks come in with every single brick separate, and a different shader for every color (for example, shader "MB_24” actually corresponds to "LEGO Brick Bright Yellow”). The script pulls that ID from a .CSV and re-assigns to display color in C4D so that a few “master” shaders could be used (as opposed to hundreds). The last GIF is just a look-dev test using that workflow…hoping to post more on that later!