Billy Joel - Piano Man, in Lego

[friskvfloyd]

cool. made me smile.

[TheFedBankCausesWar]

Wish I had hair like that little lego dude !

[TheYellowboy44]

This song + Lego + great computer animation = I'm subscribing!!

[monkeylucky580516]

I do love this video! My favorite song and my favorite LEGO. And the singer is so nice. I can tell the singer knows the meaning of this song.

[lilsquazz]

hes supposed to be playing the piano and the harmonica.

[SonicTheBluHedgehog]

I really like it, but the legoman is not singing with spirit. If you watch Billy, he's bobbing his head and playing a bit dramatically. This guy just waves his head about a bit.

[captainrabbit1016]

Oh yeah, can you tell me how you made this? Please?

[captainrabbit1016]

This is my favorite song. This is the REAL music, a classic!!!

[NaziZombies105]

thats freakin amazing!

[TheRBMN]

Hey u know that u left outba part of the song!!!!

[kikokoolio]

A little lego dude can't sing that well. It's impossible! Well, I guess not. . . . .

[feped5ftheoriginal]

The 4 people that 209thompson killed disliked this cuz try died because of the song

[209thompson]

me: mom im going out.

mom: where r u going.

me: im going to kill 4 people for hating piano man by billy joel.

mom: ok just be back by dinner time.

me: ok .

[toppertwist]

I remember seeing this a long, long time ago. I can't recall where I saw it.

[matvelous]

Absolutely love it! Good work!

[zacksterful]

This was a great song. I sang it at a school for a talent show once.

[Dronkchopperz]

that smile at the end is scary.

[GameCrewProductions]

How did you make it?

[hjmediastudios]

Hey; would you mind if I continued working on my own CG Lego "Billy Joel Piano Man" animation? I don't want to seem like I'm ripping you off (it's completely different.)

[cm374787]

@hjmediastudios

Yea sure

[hjmediastudios]

This is great! I'm also an avid Lego+Blender fan; I must ask, did you lip-sync manually or did you you use a program like Papagayo?

[cm374787]

@hjmediastudios

All done manually by ear, it was easy since there are actually only two mouth shapes

[mybrawling]

You do realize that Billy Joel played the harmonica and piano, right? >_>

[cm374787]

@mybrawling

You do realize that's irrelevant, right? >_>

[iiswatchingu]

i think this is an amazing animatin thats why im commenting 2 times on the same time :3

[iiswatchingu]

OMG! they used this song in glee its great :D 5?5 super stars but sis wouldn`t give it a free lunch a taco bell ¬_¬

[baconman353]

awesome video

[ivaneit0r]

how did you animate the face??

please tell me

[cm374787]

@ivaneit0r

Frame by frame lipsyncing

[HBK1Forever321]

how did you make this?

What did you use?

[cm374787]

@HBK1Forever321

Blender

[chaquayca]

he look drove

[BlackSpid3y]

this is so awesome,i don't like your work,i love it,nice job 5 stars but sorry YouTube won't let me vote 5 stars so ill give you Thums up

[Lammer49]

For the music added I'd give it 3/5 bcuz it skips a whole chunk of the song, it skips the whole third verse.

While animation I'd give it 5/5.

[cm374787]

@Lammer49

You do realize this isn't my music nor did I cut it :-P It's taken from Billy Joel's greatest hits, don't ask me why they cut it down :-/

[ironbrickstudios]

@cm374787 the part when john explains he'd rather be a movie star was skipped.

[awhitsel]

@Lammer49 The reason that a chunk is missing is because he is probably using the 7" single version of the song, timed at around 4:30.

[bjfv567]

@Lammer49 Same here.

[legocontrollerjr]

very good but you forgot the piano. did you see the video by any chance? billy joel had a piano in it and he was playing it while singing. just letting you know....let me guess it was hard to make the piano for the video right?

[cm374787]

@legocontrollerjr

I may add a dude playing the piano later, it's something I can go back and improve on over time. This will end up being my flagship animation with stuff being added all the time over the years.

[BrixarStudio]

Geez. I really need to get blender...

[HitokiryBattosai]

this isn`t lego ¬.¬

is a fu.. 3d animation, -.-"

[CookieCrumbIe]

@HitokiryBattosai it takes more skill to do it in 3d ;) x

[EnemyCombatant74]

brilliant...

'nuff said! thank you for your efforts!  greatly appreciated! wonderful!

~-Outward Change Begins Within-~

[theoneguywiththeface]

Is there a different version of this song?

I remember it being a bit longer...

[cormag206]

@theoneguywiththeface Yeah, the part about John is longer.

[evilnutcracker]

amazing i gave you 5 stars and subscribed i love that song you should make one where he sings "just the way you are"

[legotub]

PLZ make a tutorial

[Darkdued55]

this is amazing! I subbed :) 5/5 stars and favorited :)

[mrlinker99]

you should have made him play the piano,he does play the piano in this song, and the harmonica

[Thomulus55]

To top it off you should have had him play the harmonica in between

[killmanjaro59]

its no real.......ugh its CGI (animation, computer fabricated, for all u dumb people)

[KingDoy100]

Love it love it love it! amazing!

[timothylawes]

That is not Lego!

I have been duped......

Boooooooooooooooo.

[legotub]

how did you make the mouths

[legotub]

i mean make the mouths move

[LuiDeca]

PLEASE MAKE A TUTORIAL

[pirates452]

holy snap that is amazing i wish i could do that

[AndreiAninchkin]

awesome

[liapryce]

How did you do that!? Is it 3d animation? What program?? If it was but anyways, it was awsome I rated 5/5 stars!

[cm374787]

Using Blender, if you liked it you should check out the remastered version. There is a link to the remastered version in the video description.

[yoda2287]

How did you make this?

[LuiDeca]

Its been made in Blender?

[Dodge193023]

I think you should have, instead of him singing or playing a piano, have him do what the song says.

[Exevium]

True... Can you see Davy from the Navy sitting at the bar? :P

[Harehjeld]

ǝsıds å åƃ ıʌ ןɐʞs

[cm374787]

In English pease.

[rusticofel67]

This is really good! I love this song.

[bmettech]

it'd be cooler if he were actually playing a piano. this whole 'ken burns' effect on a stationary object gets old after about, 12 seconds.

[snubbyj]

nice work!

[cheneryfriends]

This is pretty cool animation, how did you do it? I NEEEEEED TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE ONE OF THESE, I LOVE LEGOS!

[cm374787]

If this becomes popular, then maybe I'll make a tutorial ;)

So share this around and we'll see

[drumstick94]

please do

[cm374787]

100,000 views first. Tutorial later :)

[BROKENgerbil]

...wheres the piano?

[cm374787]

He's using a mouth organ...that he swallowed.

lol

[BlackChameleon]

WIN

Billy Joel is the MAN

Do more!

[cm374787]

If you really loved it, you'd pass it on to all your friends :)

[dragonpat12]

very nice

[zoizoi]

High sound quality ♪ is nice. Thank you.

For approximately 1 day, I borrow it、for my website　

[Darkdragon152008]

How Long Did It Take To Render XD

[cm374787]

About 8 hours, even though I had 8 cores :P

Mostly because he and the mic are reflective.

[dongnhatki]

hey, i am nguyenhoangkhoi from Brickfilms remember ^^

[dongnhatki]

Ldraw

[cm374787]

Yea, I got the models from Ldraw but I animated it in Blender :P

[JoshuaFreemanFilms]

This is absolutely beautiful! Without a doubt one the best and most original examples of Blender I have ever seen! And what a nice change from the usual amateurish and done-to-death "space battles" that plaster YouTube.

I have one suggestion; if you plan on making more animations using blender give it a credit at the end of the movie so that more people become aware of one of the most capable open source applications ever.

VERY impressive. 5 Stars my friend.

[jamsterman1]

What program do you use to do this?

[cm374787]

Blender