Single-minded in pursuit of your ideals, are you? Think you’re putting a lot of time into your writing, your painting, your kids, your life? You call yourself dedicated?
Ha!
Or so I thought when I saw the video below. The maker claims to have spent 1500 hours on this not-quite-four-minute project, an estimate which I see no reason to doubt. But think about that 1500 hours… all those minutes and hours of mapping out every frame, shifting the (many) Lego bricks a little in one direction or another, shooting a frame or two per position… over… and over… (Let alone the time spent at the outset, encasing the human being in Legos.)
Granted, this rymdreglage person may not have a steady job, or kids, or… or… or… Still: sheesh.
I think the video can probably be appreciated even by people who don’t know anything about the eight-bit console games (original Nintendo Entertainment System, etc.) to which this an homage. Some advice before playing it back, though: turn the volume down a bit, and bump it upwards only if you really want. The music stops just short of inducing seizures in small children and animals.
[Hat tip to Lifting Fog (slogan: “visibility is improving”), which I’d read even if I weren’t related to one of its co-authors.]
DarcKnyt says
Wow! Intense stop-motion animated piece. I turned the music off on your advice (I remember 8-bit games well enough without that added irritant, thankewverymuch), but the video was great.
I feel really old now, because I remember this all too well.
John says
Darc: …and I feel old because I remember almost none of it. Ha!
marta says
I showed this to my son and explained how long it took to make. He said, “Wow. We think one hour is a long time.”
my recaptcha: city mamma
Jules says
I think I’m having a seizure, too, but it was well worth it.
Miriam says
*hums to herself* Oh people with way too much time on their hands, those people with way too much time on their hands… :)
I’m so biased. I look at that and go “Gosh, just think of how many WORDS they could have written in the time it took to make that!”
To each his own, I guess.
John says
marta: When I was a kid, it always seemed like Christmas didn’t drag, exactly, but compared to how it seems now it just went on and on and on. Except for sleeping, taking more than a couple of hours to do any one thing sounded preposterous.
Jules: Know the feeling. Actually sorta struck me like motion sickness. :) Bet if you converted the soundtrack to electrical impulses, you could fuel a Prius for a year!
Miriam: There’s a rule of thumb here at work, that a work year = 2080 hours (40 hrs x 52 weeks). Subtract out vacation, sick leave, and holidays and it’s easy to say, roughly, and assuming an 8-hour day: This person spent a calendar year doing this video.
Which actually isn’t bad from one perspective: “I spent a year on a cool project.” I mean, I write pretty fast, but over time I’ll probably average out to a book a year (written, not published *coughcough*).
From another perspective: Wow. A year to produce a not-quite-four-minute stop-motion film of… Legos?
(My own reCaptcha: funkiest Court. Heh.)
marta says
I don’t know, but I think people with too much time on their hands (lucky souls) are the ones watching TV all day. He made something that must have been fun and rewarding for him. I think it is awesome. But then what do I know? I spend time taking pictures of action figures.