St Ninian’s High School Christmas Video

Maff Long writes:

Blender has been used to add small visual effects to their previous parody videos of ‘Gangnam Style’ and ‘What does the fox say?’. However this year, Blender has played a much larger role by providing simple animation and 3D Tracking as they have created a video in the style of the Lego Movie’s ‘Everything is Awesome’.

Some original modelling was done in Blender, namely the minifig base used for the animations, however most of the models were built and exported from LeoCAD.

The animated sections were rendered with Cycles at 1280 X 720 with a sample setting of 16. The result was quite noisy in places, but time was not on their side. For the dance sections, each frame took about 8 minutes to render, and took several weeks of overnight renders. A frame rate of 12fps was used to try and recreate the look of stop-frame animation (rather than the bendy animated style you might find in the Lego games cut scenes).

It looks like they had fun, but part of me wonders why teachers do this to themselves ;-)