Josh Leblanc's blog

a picture from keshen8's video "Meeting of the Heroes"

I am an animator, I write scripts, create storyboards, animate and then edit videos. And I’m really good at it too. especially Stop Motion. I am a whiz with the camera. I can do real wonders with it. I can make people fly, inanimate objects move, and even blow stuff up. My favorite kind of stop motion is Lego Stop Motion. I like Legos, I like stop motion. The end result is 16 frames per second of pure plastic awesomeness. Check out my vids on Youtube. I have made some really good stuff. Some are school projects, some are just for fun. you can kind of tell which ones were the first ones that I made about five years back. the picture quality is bad and the videos are completely random.

 Recently I’ve gotten into Lego fights. They are very hard to do because in order to make it look like the Legos are actually fighting, and to do that you have to make them move like an actual human being. But since they’re Lego you have to use a bunch of camera tricks and optical illusions to make it work. Usually the shots come out wrong and I end up scrapping the entire video. I have about seven of eight vids that never made it to the editing stage because I messed up. One person who does a really good job with the fight sequences is Keshen8. He is really good at it. Usually people make fights completely unrealistic in order compensate  with the Lego characters. But Keshen can maintain a level of realisticness that is not found in other creators’ videos.

I also am into this thing called Flipnote studio. It is this thing for the handheld Nintendo DSi where you can animate short, one minute films. Then you can post them on a website called flipnote hatena. You can click on the link to see my videos. I’m not as good on flipnote as I am at stop motion because my poor drawing skills and limited video game time ( my parents only let me play an hour of video game time each day and that includes Hatena. ) put some serious limitations on my abilities. Nonetheless my work is pretty impressive. I suggest you check it out. Leave a comment on the post and tell me what you think!