Brickfilms is a great home for Lego moviemakers; well-designed and full of information.
Of particular interest are the resource pages and the wiki which both lead to plenty of good tutorials.
This dictionary seems to be more comprehensive than Google.
It helped me come up with "Modiste Folle" for "Mad Hatter" (literally, "Insane Milliner"). Hilarious.
This guy has an excellent 1966 Batmobile rendered in Lego; might be able to get some ideas for our own version here.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=185020
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/18340
Things to keep in mind, these from reading I've been doing:
1) In all the scenes of the villains' hideouts, the camera filmed at an angle, almost "crooked" (the shot is known as "canted"). This was because all the villains were also crooked.
2) Each main villain had their own theme music. (Remember to pull out samples for Jackson.)
Some good lighting ideas on a budget. link
Basically, whack together some 2x4s and get some clamp lights. They suggest floods from Home Depot, but I would look into getting some temperature-balanced photo flood bulbs and see if they're affordable. I think that's what Robert Rodriguez used on "El Mariachi".
At least at this early stage, one of the main reasons I started this blog was to keep track of the scraps of information and online resources I come across for the project. Hopefully I'll remember to label the posts appropriately as well with codes such as "Lego", "1966Batman" (for posts that refer back to the 1966 show and its assets), "French" (for language resources), and "fanfilms" (for general reading about fan-made films). This particular post has 'em all.
Lego:
Bricklink reference catalog
Bricklink Batman
1966 Batman:
66Batman forum
66Batman resources page (includes fonts)
My AskMeFi post on finding appropriate fonts
List of characters, episodes, and some credits screenshots
Opening credits to 1966 show on YouTube
French:
Google translator
Idioms
Fan Films:
Batman Fan Films forum
Guide to Batman fanfilms
Mr. Kit FitzSimons and I are collaborating on a little stop-motion Lego animation based on the 1966 Batman television series. We've never really done stop-motion, but we won't let that get in the way as we spend far too much time, energy, and money in the pursuit of this project. The initial idea was spawned around Christmastime, when my sister gave me two of the large Batman Lego sets; I already owned a number of others, and Kit has acquired the Arkham Asylum set. I bought iStopMotion for us to do the animation with, and my pal Jason Golliher will be writing and recording music for the episode.
I don't want to give a lot of details away at this point, mainly due to the fact that we've barely discussed the most basic of plot ideas, let alone written a script. Kit and I are in the middle of helping put on a comedy festival, and after that, we'll get going on this project. I just wanted to start the blog to help keep track of some of the ideas and online resources we're finding.
And off we go!