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

The festival provided a kit of parts (sound effects + music tracks), which was actually a fun constraint and helped shape the story early: “Whatever happened to Obi-Wan’s lightsaber after the Episode IV duel?” Animation and shader detail had to stay limited to hit the deadline, but I still had a blast designing the background sets in Mecabricks based on the actual film locations.

Side note for C4D nerds: I had previously written a Python script to streamline shader setup, which helped get up to speed faster. Mecabricks OBJs come in with every brick as a separate object and a unique shader per color (e.g. “MB_24” = LEGO Brick Bright Yellow). The script reads the ID from a CSV and re-assigns everything to a handful of master shaders in C4D instead of hundreds. The last GIF is just a look-dev test using that workflow.