For what it's worth, Pagano and Pickett's book was the work of professionals working for years to create a highly polished and relatively thorough guide. I think you'd have a hard time matching that and then expanding on it even further with a few hobbyists crowdsourcing a guide online. But that doesn't mean there isn't a place for smaller guides and tutorials about areas people are interested in improving in.

Both very good ideas that I agree with. I have also actually been thinking that it would be cool to do one myself, but I have not done one yet nor mentioned the idea because I do not feel that I personally am experienced/good enough to be able to make one, but if you do want to make a brickfilm tutorial, then like thistof said it would probably be best to focus on one single topic, perhaps the topic you are interested in the most or the area that you feel you you do the best.

Holding Our Own, What a guide! Where can we hear these Accordion covers?

I was just reading an article last night about improving your animation, although it can be applied to any life skill. It said the thing you need to focus on is the thing you're worst at. So maybe figure out what you totally don't know how to do, research it, do a lot of practice, and then come up with a guide. They say the best way to learn something is to teach it.

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I'll do my best =P

Haha, thanks for indulging. Was that elements song from Animaniacs?
I wonder what other obscure hobbies our fellow brickfilmers indulge in....

That's a good guess.  The Elements is from Tom Lehrer, a math professor from Harvard, who wrote songs for PBS' Electric Company, and did a short run of performing his own music.  It wasn't long before he realized that wasn't the life for him and he returned to a more private existence.  I wasn't as successful memorizing "Yakko's World" from Animaniacs, though I'm pretty good at singing verse 1.

Also, see the "Drawings and other art" thread for a look into other brickfilmers' creative hobbies. As for me, I always liked making stuff, be it music, art, or anything creative.  I also like toy history, Transformers (I collect), playing and designing board games, 1980s pop culture, classic video games, ham radio, sci-fi, and assorted other areas of obscuriana.  And inventing new words, like "obscuriana".  What do you like, Thistof?

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