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I stabbed myself in the finger with a 1.2mm diameter needle today at work. This may put me back a little animation wise, but I'm going to try to work through it.

Whilst changing the height of my table, I inadvertently jabbed a bloody huge nasty splinter betwixt my nail and finger.  It went in deep.  I screamed a scream of pain that probably sounded not entirely inhuman then pulled it out.  It hurt like crazy but the pain subsided relatively quickly, and I'm glad of that.

Two years in a row now I've drawn blood whist making a BRAWL film whist I was actually in the process of making it.


So BRAWL does some weird stuff to my head and I get some strange dreams.  Like last night I was dreaming that I was building a LEGO coffin for a lovely woman who apparently was my wife or something and I was very sad.  But I wanted to build a really nice coffin for her.
Does anyone else get strange dreams during BRAWL?

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No stranger than usual. Last night, it was nine foot skeleton cyclopes in a mall in Denmark (no LEGO connection, though, just somewhere I passed through a couple of years ago). The night before BRAWL started, I dreamt about Lantern rings in a bowl of popcorn.

No stranger than usual.

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I had a dream where i was playing GTA V (which i'm getting hopefully Friday, that's probably why i dreamt of it) and i crashed my car into a cliff. The cliff didn't have any rocks, it was just a plain grass... thing. I climbed up and saw a bunch of guys skating on a road. One of them tried to grind along a rail but fell onto the road and got driven over.


Besides, i'm getting sadder and sadder about the fact i'm not participating. I just couldn't do with the crappy storyline i had and i didn't feel like continuing so i didn't. I should start progress on my other brickfilm project, hmm.

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Well, I stayed up past 1:00AM last night working on the last clip of the first set.

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Squid wrote:
backyardlegos wrote:

I stabbed myself in the finger with a 1.2mm diameter needle today at work. This may put me back a little animation wise, but I'm going to try to work through it.

Whilst changing the height of my table, I inadvertently jabbed a bloody huge nasty splinter betwixt my nail and finger.  It went in deep.  I screamed a scream of pain that probably sounded not entirely inhuman then pulled it out.  It hurt like crazy but the pain subsided relatively quickly, and I'm glad of that.

Two years in a row now I've drawn blood whist making a BRAWL film whist I was actually in the process of making it.


So BRAWL does some weird stuff to my head and I get some strange dreams.  Like last night I was dreaming that I was building a LEGO coffin for a lovely woman who apparently was my wife or something and I was very sad.  But I wanted to build a really nice coffin for her.

Does anyone else get strange dreams during BRAWL?

No not at all. I just collapsed last night and dreamed something I don't remember. mini/tongue

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Note to everyone on this forum, not just in this competition. Never EVER try animating on a smooth tiled surface unless you have 1000x A LOT of patience. Seriously, it's the hardest thing I have EVER done (and for BRAWL nonetheless). I now know why even a lot of pros don't do it.

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Kieren Barnett wrote:

Note to everyone on this forum, not just in this competition. Never EVER try animating on a smooth tiled surface unless you have 1000x A LOT of patience. Seriously, it's the hardest thing I have EVER done (and for BRAWL nonetheless). I now know why even a lot of pros don't do it.

Yeah. I wonder how hard it was for the people who made this. (They had a few of those smooth tiles shots)

http://vimeo.com/97069358

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Like I said patience.

As an update, I now have 4 shots complete, and a lot more left to go still. I only have another whole day to animate, so this is not looking good for me currently. On the other hand, warm up for THAC.

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yay, I got my skype back. Now I must tweet about it!

A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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Harborlight Productions wrote:
Kieren Barnett wrote:

Note to everyone on this forum, not just in this competition. Never EVER try animating on a smooth tiled surface unless you have 1000x A LOT of patience. Seriously, it's the hardest thing I have EVER done (and for BRAWL nonetheless). I now know why even a lot of pros don't do it.

Yeah. I wonder how hard it was for the people who made this. (They had a few of those smooth tiles shots)

http://vimeo.com/97069358

Smooth as Plastic uses flat tiles, but one scene of it is overlay, so he's not actually on the flat tiles. Another scene he uses green clay. It's really hard. I did it once, and I regretted it while I was animating. mini/tongue

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https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/106720030 … 538957060/ filmed this shot yesterday. Since I don't have a tripod I just hung the set up. Worked pretty good. I'm hoping to finish all my filming today.

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Well, got a shot done last night, but now my video editor is really acting up and when the time does come to officially edit everything together, I'm screwed. Hopefully I'll get this problem fixed soon. mini/blankexpression

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Kieren Barnett wrote:

Note to everyone on this forum, not just in this competition. Never EVER try animating on a smooth tiled surface unless you have 1000x A LOT of patience. Seriously, it's the hardest thing I have EVER done (and for BRAWL nonetheless). I now know why even a lot of pros don't do it.

Idea: do close ups and use studs for those shots.

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rioforce wrote:
Harborlight Productions wrote:
Kieren Barnett wrote:

Note to everyone on this forum, not just in this competition. Never EVER try animating on a smooth tiled surface unless you have 1000x A LOT of patience. Seriously, it's the hardest thing I have EVER done (and for BRAWL nonetheless). I now know why even a lot of pros don't do it.

Yeah. I wonder how hard it was for the people who made this. (They had a few of those smooth tiles shots)

http://vimeo.com/97069358

Smooth as Plastic uses flat tiles, but one scene of it is overlay, so he's not actually on the flat tiles. Another scene he uses green clay. It's really hard. I did it once, and I regretted it while I was animating. mini/tongue

Yeah one scene he did with a the guy running to his sister. My I who knows how long that took! mini/tongue

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Yay! 18 seconds of footage done. 12 - 18 left with this scene. mini/tongue

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Squid wrote:
Kieren Barnett wrote:

Note to everyone on this forum, not just in this competition. Never EVER try animating on a smooth tiled surface unless you have 1000x A LOT of patience. Seriously, it's the hardest thing I have EVER done (and for BRAWL nonetheless). I now know why even a lot of pros don't do it.

Idea: do close ups and use studs for those shots.

Works in theory, but not for all shots.

I fixed the warmth issue. The red floor room is supposed to be that warm living room that all your grandparents have in their houses, and then you have the foyer in the background with lots of light coming in through the large glass facade.

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If any of you guys are interested in seeing a few of the pictures from my video and the name of it, click here.

Kieren Barnett wrote:

I fixed the warmth issue. The red floor room is supposed to be that warm living room that all your grandparents have in their houses, and then you have the foyer in the background with lots of light coming in through the large glass facade.

Looks nice, Kieren!

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A cheap poster which should get people to stop asking what my film is about:
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Has anyone had to put  red and orange pieces together in a weird place but had no choice?

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There's always a choice, though not always pleasant.  I've just tried to make the film based around the mod and focused on getting the visual appeal of the film to revolve around it and I designed a story based more around the mod than I did the theme.
That's probably not entirely a perfect idea, but I have high standards for colour in my films.

There was a shot I did of a briefly mentioned item called the Tears of Silver in the ruins of Pilver.
For certain reasons I really did not want to have the mod in there, and I still wasn't sure about the weird weapons working as Ks at that point so I stuck an ugly mod in the bottom corner.

However, my camera shoots in 3:2, yes I crop everything to 16:9, thus I can easily put something in those areas I'll cut later but still provide proof of the original.

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