The Cleaners

The Cleaners is an upcoming 2017 brickfilm by Nathan Wells and Zach Macias. It was originally intended to be produced within two days, but ended up taking two years on and off.

Cast

 * Nathan Wells
 * Zach Macias
 * Joseph Hayden
 * Jay Silver

Crew

 * Nathan Wells - Writer, Director, Animator, Editor
 * Zach Macias - Writer, Director, Animator, Editor

Production
After having collaborated via the internet for many years, Nathan Wells and Zach Macias first collaborated on LEGO animation in real life for the animated sequences of Bricks in Motion: The Documentary. Afterwards, they decided that they should co-produce more films in real life. To this end, they came up with the "Brick Mind Animation Challenge"; a challenge to themselves to create a brickfilm from start to finish within 48 hours, inspired by the Twenty-four Hour Animation Contest. From March 12 - 14, 2016, they worked on a brickfilm while livestreaming the entire event to Twitch. Though the majority of the animation was completed during this time period, the film was not completed within the two days. Further progress was slowly made between other projects, including another co-creation, Star Wars: Rogue Unit, which was not a brickfilm. The Cleaners ended up spending over 2 years in production.

The Cleaners is the first brickfilm co-directed by Wells and Macias since Feel Great in 2006, though in the meantime they did work together on the community project The Day Brickfilms.com Crashed, the double feature Diatribe/Malapropos, and the animated sequences of Bricks in Motion: The Documentary.