Well...

Let's start with the animation.  There was a lot of light flicker, and the entire thing was choppy.  You need to set up up lights wherever you animate.  Practicing your animation will help the choppiness, as well as animating at 15 fps.  The "ship" had essentially no effort put into it.  It was just a plate. I understand the whole free-roaming minifigs concept, but I don't think it was pulled off very well.  I expected something totally different from what the title says, the animator didn't have a huge role in the film. The story was odd, a tad hard to follow.  You need voice actors.  We can't well who's talking, and it's not fun to listen to.  Also, don't overuse cue cards.  It's a cliche. 

Definitely work on it.  I'm %100 sure you put effort into this, but there needs to be more.

Ahem!

Why the frame rate looks bad is probably because I haven't tweaked my software ideally, it is still going at 15 fps. Light flicker was because there aren't enough powerpoints to put the light in everywhere I went. Yeah sorry about the credits I got that from darthmilo77 and the please subscribe and comment I got from forrestfire101. Because forrestfire101 is (I think) the most popular stop motion person on youtube (about 26K subscribers) I thought that'd work.

Yes I know it was a failure, I only did it in 2 weeks. And I suppose I am only 12 and I've been doing 15 fps for about a month and a half.

It's funny youtube has mostly responded great to this. Seems BiM has a higher standard than youtube.

I hope I can get better otherwise there's no point sticking around BiM.

You might as well quit now if you have an attitude like that. The whole reason of posting your films here is to get suggestions on how to improve your film. You can't expect everyone to love it. Don't get mad at people for telling you what you did wrong and what you could use improvement on, I started out way worse then you, but thanks to the constructive criticism I have gotten a lot better. Listen to the community instead of shunning them and you will improve a lot.

And please don't say that you are tempted quit brickfilming only because someone didn't like your film. I made films way worse than you and
I didn't quit, listen to advice and you are bound to improve. Every single brickfilmer had to start out somewhere. Even the greatest ones sucked at one point in time.

Last edited by Spudster (January 19, 2009 (05:25pm))

Yes, something that you need to learn quickly is that Youtube has the lowest standard for content on the internet.  And regarding that bit about the "getting it done fast" thing... no.  Stop-motion isn't to be rushed.  If you're going to quit (which you shouldn't), don't quit because of constructive criticism, quit from lack of patience. 

You're only a month in.  I suggest practicing a bit, then releasing another film.  You're beter than I was a month and a half in.

I personally thought the film was good from a storyline perspective, it had humour, pretty cool music, and didn't have a lot of the problems that beginning animators normaly have.The introduction set it up to be really epic.

However it did have lots of OTHER problems beginners have, such as:Set bumps. The set jiggled lots because you touched the camera or whatever the camera was sitting on as you moved the minifigure or took the picture.
Sound acting: As far as i could hear, you were the only voice actor in the film, and i made it difficult to tell when different people were talking.
I can't complain TOO much about the "ship", as it made me think of The mMagic Portal, which was epic because it was the pioneer brickfilm.It was sort of bland but it fit well with the rest of the film.

For some of your shots (not the last one where they were frozen) you could tell that you were playing the same frame over and over again, instead of taking a new pic. Trust me, it looks better if you take several pictures for all scenes, evevn if no one is moving. The exception is your last shot, it would have looked odd if you did that.

I didn't quite get the bit where most of em where sleeping or something except for two, perhaps they had gone back to base and were being lazybums?

Yeah thanks for bringing out some positive points.

I know I still have my problems, and as a beginner.

And yes I think I'm starting to learn my lesson on repeating footage.

Oh you know how they fell back in the middle of the battle and they got stuck because the animator smashed their engine?  They then headed for land and decided to be lazy slobs, leaving the other guys to do the dirty work.

To everyone else, I admit I over reacted. I've been having a bad day and I wasn't in a good mood. I didn't really mean the thing about leaving brickfilming, because it's a hobby. I'm sorry.