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Angus MacLane was the Directing Animator
for the film WALL•E at Pixar Animation Studios.
He was closely involved with the team that
designed and built the title robot.
“I started building the LEGO
®
version of WALL•E
around the same time he was being built in the
computer at Pixar, in the late summer of 2005.
The color scheme of the character wasn’t
settled so I started building with all light gray.
As we refined the robot’s design for the film, I
would update my LEGO model. Once we got
busier on the film, I had less time to build, so
I put him on the shelf for a while.
Once we finished animation production in
2008, I rebuilt him with the proper colors. The
original treads I used were too small and
pretty flimsy, but a LEGO bulldozer had been
launched by then, which gave me my solution.
After I submitted the design to LEGO Ideas,
I did a few more revisions to the model to
make it more accurate to the character design.
Having stared at this robot for so many years,
I was extremely familiar with the proportions
and functionality of WALL•E. Great input from
LEGO Designer Steen Sig Andersen and the
team at The LEGO Group, and from Andrew
Stanton (the director of WALL•E), helped push
the LEGO WALL•E to its final design.
It took a lot of iterations over almost a decade,
but I’m really happy with how the final LEGO
WALL•E turned out.”
the designer
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