This film had style by the brick full. Your digital skills, sound and graphics are tip-top. The story was great even if the ending was a little flat. Anti gravity was a very great idea, that's what makes brick films such a great medium. You can do awesome effects for little cost.
So cool, well played!

Actually, most of it was shot at 15 fps.

- Leo

Last edited by Leonardo812 (January 13, 2009 (08:30am))

Well, being hardly more than a novice in the field of brickfilming with only one film to my name, I don't really feel up to the task of reviewing your work. That said, I enjoyed it a lot. Silky smooth animation, great cinematography, excellent soundtrack, solid effects, nice story.

After above comments I decided to download the massive version to take detailed full screen look on the digital effects. What I've noticed:
- some pixelation around the head when the minifig passes to the left in front of the window
- the red helmet seems digital once it slips over the robot
- the face does indeed stand out from the rest at times (not so much the focus as the intensity of the black, imho)
- after the robot crawls into the vent, it swooshes to the left without moving its legs
In short: nothing worth mentioning, and I wish I could do stuff like this only half as good.

If you'd put a gun to my head to force critisism out of me, I'd say that the during the fading in and out you can clearly make out the 8 bit like circles (artistic desicion? result of compression?), which I feel doesn't match up to the quality of the rest of the film, and that there's too much digital elements, like the robot-legs, robot-eye, air vent grate and control panels, which detracts from the overall lego-feel a bit. Oh, and the plot is a bit sudden. But only a bit!

98/100

-PG

Oh, okay. A case of "1-open mouth, 2-insert foot" for me then. I'm a barbarian and just can't grasp true greatness.

I hear ya!

On this topic, I did some thinking (I know, I shouldn't, nothing good ever comes from that) on why the plot felt a bit sudden, and I think I got it: once the astronaut and the robot are in the same room, you basically got a classic western showdown. You even got your robot pulling an mean stunt by shutting down the gravity (compare to the black-hat cowboy who makes a side step to have the sun that's just coming up shine directly in our heroes' eyes). But then your hero immediatly shoots the bad guy, instead of giving time to let it sink in how bad a situation the hero is in and thus building up tension.
I think it would have been better to take some time, for example have your astronaut reach for his gun but hitting it instead if grabbing it and sending it through the room. The robot repeats his broken command, smug, 'cause his trick worked. But then we see in our heroes eyes that an idea has formed! As a climax, in a wide shot, we see the astronaut make use of the robots evil stunt to his advantage by flinging his helmet over the robot, just like he sent his gun across the room earlier (compare to the white-hat hero that uses the badge on his jacket as a mirror to blind the bad guy, thus creating an opportunity to shoot the gun from the bad guy's hands).

Off topic: how did you make the astronaut and his gun float so neatly, complete with a shadow on the floor. That's not all digital, is it?

-PG