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Jim Southworth's LEGO Island 2 animations

by: Jim Southworth

Publication date: 2021-09-20

Topics: LEGO, LEGO Island, LEGO Island 2, Island Xtreme Stunts, Silicon Dreams Studio, artwork, concept art, prototype, unreleased, beta, game development, animation, game animation, 3D modeling, unused content

Language: English

A collection of animations from the development of the 2001 video game LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge (as well as a few from its 2002 sequel Island Xtreme Stunts). The videos are from Jim Southworth, who worked at Silicon Dreams Studio as lead animator during the development of the games and created the animations in this collection.

The four ZIP archives contains 21 videos, totalling 190,699,406 bytes. The files date from between March 2000 and December 2001.

Mirrored from Rock Raiders United, where it was uploaded along with information from Jim Southworth, quoted below:

I think we started in 1999. It was a long time ago! There were two of us animating. I'd been working at Silicon Dreams since 1995.

It was the early days of 3D video games, so it was a fun challenge to bring minifigs to life. At that time here hadn't been a gazillion Lego games or movies.

-We really enjoyed animating the Brickbots and sending them to Lego for approval.
-I though the audio team did an amazing job adding spot effects to my cartoony animations.
-We used to laugh at the VO. It was pretty cringey - 'The Dude with the Food'.
-The engine was written in house and we just couldn't get the lighting right for some reason. We shipped with really harsh shadows that look really bad now.

[regarding toast.avi]
Just me messing around pushing how evil the Brickster could possibly be. A bit too far for a pre-teen audience I think.