I’ve been experimenting a bit with stop motion animation—and I use that term quite loosely—with some of my LEGO figurines.  On a whim, I filmed a little Ewok minifigure proclaiming it’s “Ewok Summer,” and from there I experimented with a couple of other YouTube shorts.

I edited all of these “in-camera,” meaning that I just clicked “pause” on my iPhone’s camera mid-recording and hit “record” again.  The last of the three was the most involved, in which I tried to click “pause” and “record” in a rhythm.  You can tell when I lingered on a shot a bit longer than intended, but for a hyper-amateurish effort, I like how the third one materialized.

Finally, the music in the second and third videos is a track called “Hey Sailor”; it’s a royalty-free YouTube track.  I haven’t figured out yet how to put my music into these videos, but eventually I will and I’ll do so.

Now, on with the Ewok Summer Trilogy!

Ewok Summer

It’s Ewok Summer, baby!

Ewok Summer II: Old-Fashioned Tatooine Friday Night

Luke and The Boyz go cruisin’ on a red-hot, old-fashioned, Tatooine Friday night. Oh, yeah!

Ewok Summer III: The Funk Side of the Force

Ewok Summer never dies. Luke and the Boyz party down, and Luke succumbs to the Funk Side of the Force.  My stop-motion magnum opus.

What did you think of my little trilogy?  According to my YouTube stats, the like-to-dislike ratio is 2:1, so 1/3rd of viewers dislike these Ewok-related shenanigans.  I can only assume they are infamous Internet haters, not discerning viewers who have come to expect much higher quality from their free YouTube entertainment.

But my dear readers are surely not such Philistines… right?  Right?

Happy Viewing—and Happy Ewok Summer!

—TPP