After a half a dozen short films mostly using inanimate objects and toys, I am writing my feature stop motion film and I’m a bit confused on the choices in front of me.
I know the story I want to tell and have a rough roadmap of its tone, treatment and narrative. However I am at a crossroads regarding the material I want to present it in.
My film is a gritty adventure movie that becomes a sort of black comedy/surreal horror journey.
Normally I’d work with stiff, barely pose able plastic toys painted for character and depth. However I was considering perhaps turning into Lego motion/Brick motion to add more expressiveness and dimension to the humor of the film.
The only hesitance I have is that while I can use Lego for the characters; I know that the elaborate sets and sequences I want to build means I cannot buy so much Lego/brick toys for everything else.
If I were to use Lego characters but in sets I create out of card and other material, would it be odd looking and break immersion or does it no matter at all?
I’ve also considered creating characters from scratch either using felt like material, something puppetry type not clay or perhaps even paper. This could be dynamic but I’m not confident in my abilities to create characters from scratch.
Any suggestions?
The plastic toys I would use would be like 1:72 size.