Trevor Carlee has been working in the entertainment industry for more than a decade, and he came up with a creative way to pay homage to his favorite movies and TV shows. He found viral fame thanks to his animated clips where characters made of LEGO take center stage.
Carlee is a talented animator and 3D artist, who attracted over 270,000 followers to his Instagram page after he started working on his viral LEGO clips. He mostly uses Photoshop and Procreate to design textures, torsos, and faces of his LEGO characters, before using his favorite software Blender to animate them.
Translating live-action scenes into LEGO hasn’t been easy, but Carlee sees it as a great training ground for real animation.
“[Animating in LEGO] is still tedious and it takes time, but it takes a lot longer to animate humanoid characters because there’s so many extra joints to be mindful of, and things can seem wrong if you do one motion that’s stiff. But with LEGO, everything is already stiff and it’s such a limit,” he told IndieWire.
Carlee attracted millions of views with his LEGO version of memorable scenes from New Girl, Parks and Recreation, and Fleabag, but we’ve also seen him pay homage to such iconic shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Veep, and Arrested Development.
