Hot Talent: Lego short shop Spite Your Face on a co-pro partner hunt

Mockingly referring to itself as the severed nose of the industry, Middlesex, England's Spite Your Face Productions definitely smells of roses lately. Building on a landmark 2001 cross-promotional deal with Lego to create stop-motion short films for the web using the toyco's building blocks as its medium, the creative hotshop is basking in the success of its latest Lego short Spider-Man: The Peril of Doc Ock. Commissioned by Sony Pictures, Marvel Studios and The Lego Group, the four-minute web toon generated around 300,000 hits in four days after launching on Yahoo! this July, and it's currently the number-one Internet film featured on iFilm.com.
September 1, 2004

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