What Works? part 1-The Metrazort prop

With this post, I will explain the behind the scenes thing of the movie.

In my own cartoon strip known as Rombes, there is one particular enemy known as the Metrazorts. 

The Metrazort itself


The Metrazorts are cyborgs that have come from a burnt out planet, but in truth they were based on the bionicle toyline (which makes them easy to potray them in "The Yard Of Sodor (my private film series)).

So I decided to create the Metrazort, and specifically out of lego to make a easy way to build it, but despite using the feet, head and mask of a bionicle, the rest of the lego came from the ordinary tecnic stuff (correct me if I'm wrong) to prevent allusion to Bionicle and to present more originality too.

The Metrazort is actually a static figure that has to be animated using stop motion, which is sort of based on the techniques of Ray Harryhusen, and I made enormus photographs of the shooting location (english corridor), and animated the metrazort in front of it so that it looks like the Metrazort is right there on location.

The Metrazort has got joints that pop out on the arms and weak on the legs, which makes it evident that it is not designed to be a plaything, but when the lower half of the metrazort's leg isn't visible in a shot, then I replace the lower halfs with a turning brick to provide stability and movement as the exact same time.

I myself provide the voice of the Metrazort, but to produce a robotic voice, I simply went to a deep voice and used pinnacle to edit the audio to match it in the condition you hear.

Finally, as for the fate of the prop, well it's going to be put into storage for future use in my films (recently re-used in The Red Traveller).

Hope you understand.