I led a team of builders to create the sets for a 30 second Target and LEGO Batman spot. This was stop motion animated at Stoopid Buddy Stoodios in Burbank.

Director: Warren Fu

Animation Director: Ethan Marak

Director of Photography: Helder Sun

I designed and built this LEGO scene that was built around LEGO set 75183 - Darth Vader™ Transformation. The was for a whimsical video promoting the set and celebrating STAR WARS during the Holiday season.

I led a team of 26 to build the end titles for The LEGO Movie. This was a three-minute sequence that used real LEGO and true stop motion animation techniques. Read all about the conception, design, build, and animation process at The Art of the Title .

I created the set, characters, and animated this short video. Materials included wood, foam, paper, snacks, paint, and tape.

Director Jethro Ames.

Using paper, wood, foam, paint, sand, and pants I created the set, characters, and animated this short video.

Director Jethro Ames.

Set Design

Camera

As a fan of space travel and a former cartographer I was extremely excited to create the Pringles rocket and earth landscape backdrop. I even rebranded a model of the ISS to feature Pringles color schemes. I used cotton and colored paper to simulate smoke and fire for the rocket launch scene.

For my first project for director Jethro Ames I created the set and animated the characters to promote Intel and Lenovo's Horizon 2 Table PC. The story is about two fruit spies attempting to escape from an icy prison.

I’ve always wanted to make a complete Chinese Zodiac with the LEGO animals that have been made over the years. I made this spinning Zodiac wheel for a Chinese New Year Event in New York City in the year of the pig.

Miniland scale LEGO Dodge Challengers.

LEGO lightsaber! The Switch on the bottom turns on LEDs throughout the blade. I modified the LEGO parts in the hilt to contain eight AA batteries (12 volts total). This was one of my all time favorite projects to build. I like STAR WARS and to combine electronics into LEGO was great fun. The LEGO model needed to be durable enough to be carried by several kids on a STAR WARS themed run called Course of the Force. To pull this off I also added two pieces of three mm threaded steel rod from top to bottom.  I estimate that the batteries will power the light saber for about 300 hours. After the run, the durability of the blade was tested when Prince and Blanket Jackson (sons of Michael Jackson) got into a lightsaber duel in the LEGO studio. There was only minor damage and Blanket emerged victorious! 

In 2013 I built this Wisconsin Badger logo for the University of Wisconsin Alumni magazine called OnWisconsin. I designed the mosaic digitally and then spent sixteen hours assembling more than 2,000 LEGO bricks. Check out the article here: http://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/features/brick-by-brick/  

This University of Michigan LEGO football weighs more than six pounds! I would not recommend catching it. It was a fun sculptural project and I was really happy with how close the LEGO colors are to "Michigan Maize" and blue. The Michigan alum was extremely excited to receive this as gift. 

I built this LEGO Starbucks logo for a fan of the brand. The mosaic used more than 1,200 bricks and took about a week to finish. I always enjoy doing projects where I get to build a logo. Just like sketching I can learn a lot about the logo design. The original Starbucks logo was based off of a 16th century Scandinavian woodcut of a mermaid.  

In 2012 I designed a new Miniland cluster for LEGOLAND California. This included motorcycle design, track layout and landscaping. This was a fun addition to LEGOLAND and replaced half of the Southern California cluster which was showing its age at that time.

To celebrate the June 17th, 2014 Blu-ray and DVD release of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, team Coruscate constructed the Hotel entirely of LEGO bricks! We spent 575 hours building and designing the replica of the exquisite hotel. To construct the model, more than 50,000 Lego bricks from collectors and wholesalers were sourced from Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Germany, Italy and 14 different states in the U.S.

The LEGO model was unveiled to the public with Lobby Boy - Tony Revolori at The Grove in Los Angeles. The Hotel spend the rest of the summer on display in the A+D Architect and Design Museum Los Angeles as part of their exhibit: S,M,L,XLA.

This Dark Knight model is built from 15,000 LEGO Bricks and he’s modeled after the Batman minifigure that came with the large LEGO Tumbler (70623). The belt is a custom item, but mostly he’s true to the original LEGO. I even captured the the details behind the cape in case someone wants to check!