Brick by brick, young Irish animator James builds films out of Lego
Filmmaker James Morgan: brings Lego to life with painstaking stop-motion animation
The artform of animation has undergone huge changes in the past few decades, expanding from hand-drawn children’s diversion to adult sitcoms, and major movie productions; while the lines between live action and animation have been blurred by the advent of CGI and motion capture technology.
It’s an interesting time, then, for young film-maker and animator James Morgan, from Co Dublin, to pick up and develop a body of work in the evergreen field of stop-motion animation, as popularised by Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep series.
