Lego Creation: Wall-E

LEGO Wall-E by Angus MacLane

There are plenty of LEGO Wall-E replicas floating around the web, but this one stands apart from the rest for being created by one of the actual animators who worked on the film at Pixar. Angus MacLane has worked as an animator on a long list of Pixar projects, including Geri’s Game and A Bug’s Life, and as a director on short works such as Small Fry and the great Toy Story of Terror! He submitted this Wall-E design for review through LEGO's Cuusoo site at the end of October.

If you're unfamiliar with the Cuusoo process, LEGO sets that receive 10,000 user votes are reviewed each quarter by LEGO corporate officials for their potential as a future product.  Sign up for the site and vote at the model’s submission page.

"The title robot from Disney/Pixar’s “WALL•E”. I worked on the movie and this was the model that I was building and refining as the film progressed. I started building this LEGO version of WALL•E around the same time the computer model was being built in late summer of 2005 and finished three years later. Vote today and make this little guy a reality!"

In an interview with Brothers Brick, MacLane explained his interest in LEGO:

Mostly I build with LEGO as a way to unwind from a day spent in front of the computer. The tactile nature of LEGO can be much more satisfying than working in the often intangible realm of the computer. Also, a large part of an animator’s job is to clearly communicate an idea through the pose of a character. I think this is similar to building with LEGO where part of the goal is to sculpt clear shapes that communicate the purpose of the creation.

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