Spite Your Face Productions was the company name of British animators and filmmakers Tony Mines and Tim Drage. During the early 2000s, they were the go-to animators for when The LEGO Group required official, promotional brickfilms, and the most well known works they produced for LEGO include The Peril of Doc Ock, The Han Solo Affair, Monty Python and the Holy Grail in LEGO, and Scary Thriller; a film that was included on a disc in two LEGO Studios LEGO sets. They are also known for their earlier independent brickfilms ONE: A Space Odyssey and All of the Dead.[1][2] The films that Spite Your Face Productions created for The LEGO Group were some of the most widely viewed and highest regarded brickfilms in the 2000s, and introduced many people to the concept of brickfilming.
Tony Mines died from cancer on July 9, 2022, at age 44.[3]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Underpants Day | Live-action brickfilm by Tony Mines |
| 1997 | ADRIENS | Live-action brickfilm by Tony Mines |
| 1997? | Gorgonzilla X | Live-action brickfilm by Tony Mines[4] |
| 2000 | All of the Dead | |
| 2000 | THX 13G0 | Live-action brickfilm by Tim Drage[5] |
| 2001 | ONE: A Space Odyssey | Commissioned by Three Sixty Contemporary Arts[6] |
| 2001 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail in LEGO | Commissioned by Python Pictures and The LEGO Group |
| 2002 | Spider-Man (Ver. 1) (Ver. 2) | Commissioned by The LEGO Group[7] |
| 2002 | Scary Thriller | Commissioned by The LEGO Group[8] |
| 2002 | The Han Solo Affair | Commissioned by Lucasfilm and The LEGO Group |
| 2004 | The Peril of Doc Ock | Commissioned by Sony Pictures and The LEGO Group |
| 2009 | Happy Street | Commissioned by Tandem Films[9] |
| 2013? | Unknown[10] | Commissioned by an unknown client |
| 2017 | Ice Cream Headache - A LEGO Batman Movie | Created across animation workshops run by Tony Mines |
| 2019 | Harley Quinn / Joker / Batgirl 1 / Batgirl 2 | |
| 2020 | Brickfilms were a mistake. |
References
- ↑ Tony Mines on IMDb
- ↑ Tim Drage on IMDb
- ↑ CartoonBrew.com article about Tony Mines' death
- ↑ Tim Drage's LEGO index page archive
- ↑ THX 13G0 website page
- ↑ ONE: A Space Odyssey website page
- ↑ Spiderman mentioned on an archived Spite Your Face site
- ↑ Scary Thriller on an archived Spite Your Face site
- ↑ Happy Street website page
- ↑ Business Communications Reel on Vimeo
