Macro LEGO Universe presents 'Back to the Future' recreated in LEGO

Animated and photographed by Daniel Jamieson and Vicki Smith

Set built by Elspeth de Montes

Lightning, fire, and titles by Christopher Hetherington

Edited and graded by Daniel Jamieson

Custom clock face and doc by Andy Watts at minifigforlife

Trees supplied by themodeltreeshop.co.uk

Music by Alan Silvestri

Macro LEGO Universe presents, 'Jurassic Park', recreated in LEGO

Animated and edited by Daniel Jamieson

Fence and set pieces built by Elspeth De Montes

Cars designed and built by Tim Johnson

Custom minifigures designed by Mark Guest, printed by minifigures.com

Custom tiles printed by Andy Watts at minifigforlife

Special thanks to Christina Hahrwell, Mark Guest and Alan Harrison.

BEHIND THE SCENES

The animations above required a lot of passionate time, patience and expert craft by some very talented individuals. The Back To The Future Hill Valley set was recreated entirely by Elspeth De Montes, who used the film as reference to recreate the town square with such creative accuracy, including shops, roads, and the iconic clocktower.

For both Back To The Future and Jurassic Park, we used macro lens filters on 18-55mm DSLR lenses to create ultra-close shots that seemed life-size scale, as well as LED torches with coloured cellophane to create accurate lighting. Sometimes we had to utilise longer exposures to gain more of the shot in focus, which would make a sequence a lengthy effort to shoot.

Back To The Future was created throughout the duration of BRICK 2014, a public LEGO expo at the Excel Centre London, so presented a time constraint of four days to shoot, as well as the challenges of overhead lighting and being constantly observed by attendees.

Tim Johnson expertly built two and a half Jurassic Park tour cars for use in the Jurassic Park animation. The half car was designed to be slowly destroyed. The animation was sponsored by LEGO as part of the launch campaign for Jurassic World, who got in touch after the viral success of our Back To The Future animation.

Model trees were used in both animations and plasticine was used for the mud in Jurassic Park, while also using spray bottle water for rain effects. Custom tiles and signs had to be printed, and the ink in the transparent prints applied to the Jurassic Park vehicles did start to run when affected by the water!

Sadly the Hill Valley town set had to be destoyed after shooting was complete, yet the clocktower was kept for pickup shots and was then sold to Hamleys in London to recoup the cost it took to make. Its current whereabouts is unknown.