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GENERAL
The Making of The Lego Movie
FXGuideTV interviews "The Lego Movie" Cinematographer and Layout Supervisor Pablo Plaisted, CG Supervisor Aidan Sarsfield and Production Designer Grant Freckelton

Brick-by-brick: how Animal Logic crafted The LEGO Movie
Good general behind-the-scenes on fxguide

LEGO Land
Another general behind-the-scenes from Computer Graphics World with a couple of soundbites from me.

LIGHTING
11 Lighting Tips from The Lego Movie 
A distillation of an interview with myself by Barbara Robertson for Animation Mentor

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The original article from Cinematography Database has been taken down, but is archived on the waybackmachine: THE LEGO MOVIE – ANAMORPHIC VIRTUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY, an interview with cinematographer  Pablo Plaisted and myself by Matt Workman, part 1 & part 2.
Unfortunately most of the accompanying images are gone.

LIGHTING and RENDERING TECHNICAL
Q&A WITH ANIMAL LOGIC’S MAX LIANI – CREATOR OF ‘GLIMPSE’ RAY-TRACE RENDERING ENGINE
The awesome Max Liani answers a slew of questions in this forum on CGSociety and if you are reading this before March 25th 2014 you can sign up to participate in a live Q&A with Max

ANIMATION
How The Lego Movie Got Its Stop-Motion Look
Interview with the incredible Alfie Olivier, Animation Supervisor on "The Lego Movie" here at Animal Logic