While automotive repairs are his fort茅, Paul Drolet also has a knack for brickwork.
Just over four years ago Drolet started Salmon Arm Auto & Truck, located in the city91裸聊视频檚 industrial park. Since then, he and his team have built up and expanded the business and its reputation in the community. In 2019, while looking for a way to promote his business, Drolet decided to apply the patience, skilled hands and eye for detail he uses in the garage to working on vehicles of 1:43 scale or less. The result was a 30-second Lego stop motion video.
The experience was fun for Drolet and the feedback encouraging, so he eventually decided to make another. This time around, though, Drolet upped the ante, and the brick count, to create a fluid 55-second video. The end product combines combines multiple set pieces, special effects and a humorous, albeit exaggerated look at what can happen in the garage, based on real-life experiences.
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To bring the commercial to life, Drolet ordered new Lego sets, as well as numerous minifigure heads 91裸聊视频� each wearing face masks, and also bought more sophisticated stop-motion software to work with. Once he got down to it, Drolet estimated his latest brick-based ad took about 15 hours to shoot. To control the lighting he filmed at nights.
For one scene, in which one of the mechanic figures accidentally catches fire and is put out by another figure with a fire extinguisher, Drolet explained the filming process took from 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. to complete.
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Thankfully Drolet had resources to draw on, including his brother Ben Drolet (owner of the former Shuswap Computer, now Sunrise Remote), who assisted with editing. Paul was also able to dig into his kids91裸聊视频� Lego collections for needed pieces, and is wife found the music that helped tie everything together.
Given the effort, time and money I put into the ad, Paul thinks it will be his last stop motion project for a while. While his kids love video, Drolet said his six year old was keen to get his hands on the pieces for other creations.
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Since going up on Salmon Arm Auto & Truck91裸聊视频檚 Facebook page, Drolet91裸聊视频檚 video has received plenty of love and shares.
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