How the animation was done for the LEGO Movie

[Mr. Analog]

We've talked about this before but here's the making of video, they really wanted to make it look like a stop motion film, so a lot of work was done with the way the CG was rendered to make it look that way.

http://www.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-186-the-lego-movie/

And yes, if you didn't know there is a sequel coming in 2017:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/chris-mckay-will-direct-the-lego-movie-sequel-97296.html

[Thorin]

holy crap, I did not realize it was entire CG: http://www.fxguide.com/featured/brick-by-brick-how-animal-logic-crafted-the-lego-movie/.  I honestly thought it was stop-motion augmented by CG...

[Mr. Analog]

They made it to look that way intentionally as they thought that people would respond better to seeing things in motion that way (which is true really).

Pretty cool I think, what a challenge!