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Bricks in Motion
Bricks in Motion
We are a friendly filmmaking community devoted to the art of stop-motion animation using LEGO® and similar construction toys. Here, you can share your work, join our community of other brickfilmers, and participate in periodic animation contests!
A place to discuss, share, and create stop motion films.
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That cup was cool! The film was great
That was really cool.
Nice, really well built. Must have been a large bricklink order.
Umm... Holy cow. That rocked!
Shots like the one where all of the people are working on the building make me ant to animate. In fact, the whole thing makes me want to animate. I hope it wins! If there's a vote, you have mine.
I love it!
Fantastic animation, amazing sets!
11 out of 10
I totally wasn't excpecting something near as awesome as this. That was amazing.
5/5
It's really awesome.
That was really cool! Nice bright colours and a nice set, it made me smile.
I hope you'll win.
Btw, your quicktime version doesn't seem to be working. I got a 404.
That was great. 
Smooth animation, great set design. You deserve to win.
Thanks for your comments guys! I'll answer questions...
@ Moo-C-J: The cup took too long to build, maybe 5 hours all up. The fact I had only just enough pieces, and had to build it cleverly with what I had, was tricky and it could've taken half the time if I'd had an ample supply of bricks.
@ Keshen: Yes it was...two orders in fact. I spent at least AUD$150 on LEGO I think...
@LegoShark: I'm pleased to hear that you find my humble film inspiring! Luckily it's not voted on, it's Looked At.
@Bastetta: Hmm I'm not sure what's up with it for you, it works fine for me at home and school though.
I also have a few photos: (click on them for a bigger version)
My room for animating, in the back garden...gets boiling hot in summer, freezing cold in winter! I finished animating this film at about 4:30am on Thursday, it was about 3 degrees...
Anyway
This is the rig I used for that shot where they're putting fruit into the cup. Didn't want a vertical wall cause the fruit would drop off annoyingly, and I don't have a backdrop on my ceiling.
The boost cup I based my cup on. For those of you who don't know, Boost is an Australian smoothie-selling chain that sells fresh juice and smoothies and soup and stuff....it's very yummy as well!
Random pic of minifig. I drew lots of pics to visualise what this movie was going to look like, to plan it all out (v. important) and then loaded my pics into the computer to make a video-storyboard with the music. This made it so I knew exactly how long each shot had to be, and didn't waste time shooting what was only going to be cut later. Editing it simply meant dragging and dropping the clips into premiere, hardly any trimming required.
That was fantastic. I think you did a great job portraying the "Make us Smile" aspect of this. Excellent work, and of course, great sets.
I think this could be a solid nominee for Best Set Design in the BAFAs this year! Superb job.
Last edited by VN (May 1, 2009 (12:01pm))
That was really good! The sets were fantastic, and the animation was real good!
Awesome job.
Amazing! I really enjoyed this. I've watched it about 10 times now.
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