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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Awesome! I still need to shoot my bit of 12 Joys, which I'll probably do this week.

EDIT: Okay, so I'll strike while the iron is hot and start sending data to the people involved so far. If anyone else is interested, places are still available and will be for some time - technically we can have as many parts to this adventure as we like! If anyone wants to join, PM me or comment here and I'll send you the relevant info.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/189/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-22T13:03:11Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Cool! I'm really close to completing the Dangerous by Daylight entry. After that I'll quickly film my part of '12 Joys of Brickfilming' project, and then I am ready to work on this.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BrickStory]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/131723/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-22T13:00:41Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Okay, so far we have [b]Rockydude411Bricks[/b] and [b]BrickStory[/b]. Would anyone else like to join? We can go ahead and start production with only two people, but three would work much better. Would anyone be willing to take the Castle/Adventurers/that-kind-of-thing category?

Once that's sorted, I'll send everyone involved the criteria, and we'll work on the minifig design for Arlen so that everyone can build him. After we've started other people are welcome to join and work on a new category, but message me first so I can send you the criteria. I'm really excited for this project, guys!

So, anyone for the Castle category?]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/189/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-22T10:26:23Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[May I join? If so, I would like to make a dream world animation.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Rockydude411]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[rockydude411@yahoo.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/130340/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-17T23:07:05Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=backyardlegos]I'm seriously interested in participating, but I'm not sure about my timeline. If we set it up in way that not all the films have to be released at the same time, I should be able to participate. Perhaps instead of specifying a number of jewels, you can just say "jewels", which leaves it open for the addition of more films, and you can put a bunch of extra portals in the portal room. I really like this idea, and want to make one of the films, I don't think I can get one done by July, simply because I'm not living in the same place as my LEGO collection right now, and won't be for at least a few more months, at best. I can currently only make the two films I have storyboarded and sets built for (and their each one set films, so I don't have enough bricks here to rebuild into new sets).[/quote]

Good ideas all!

I think if the releases of each addition are staggered, then that would allow people who can't fit to the July deadline to still participate. You're right, there could be more portals in the room, and one of those adventures (let's say yours) could come out some time closer to September (let's say). i was planning on staggering them a bit anyway, but that makes more sense now if there could be more films to it.

You bring some good points.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/189/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-16T09:30:35Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I'm seriously interested in participating, but I'm not sure about my timeline. If we set it up in way that not all the films have to be released at the same time, I should be able to participate. Perhaps instead of specifying a number of jewels, you can just say "jewels", which leaves it open for the addition of more films, and you can put a bunch of extra portals in the portal room. I really like this idea, and want to make one of the films, I don't think I can get one done by July, simply because I'm not living in the same place as my LEGO collection right now, and won't be for at least a few more months, at best. I can currently only make the two films I have storyboarded and sets built for (and their each one set films, so I don't have enough bricks here to rebuild into new sets).]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[backyardlegos]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[backyardlegos@gmail.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/4579/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-16T00:48:04Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=jampot]It should be any one of the themes that I listed: 
You don't have to do Castle, it can be Greek or Egyptian or anything on that list.[/quote]
Ok, could I be put down for Castle then? :)]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Slurpy]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/125782/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-15T13:51:20Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[It should be any one of the themes that I listed: 

[quote]Castle, Viking, Greek/Egyptian/ancient history, or high fantasy (elves, dwarves, trolls etc) animation. Could also possibly be explorers or adventurers of some kind, or even mountain climbing or extreme stunts - it doesn't have to be fantasy, but needs the big nature or historical setting.[/quote]

You don't have to do Castle, it can be Greek or Egyptian or anything on that list.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/189/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-15T13:31:43Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I would gladly like to do a Castle theme, but if I am put down, do I just do a Castle theme? No Greek or Egyptian theme?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Slurpy]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-02-15T13:20:45Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Brilliant! I don't mind at all; I'm not the best brickfilmer either, and by doing these kinds of challenges we learn and improve (it's why I try to enter every animation challenge). i'll put you down for sci-fi - welcome aboard! I'll let you know of the details once we have two more brickfilmers.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/189/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-15T12:46:31Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I would be up for the challenge once I finish my BFCU Challenge entry, which should be sometime at the end of next week.
I have improved vastly since I joined this site, but I can't guarantee that all shots from my film will be spotless. If you don't mind that, then I would love to do the sci-fi film.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BrickStory]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/131723/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-15T12:38:26Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Hate to double-post, but this is an important update. I've decided to try to get this off the ground, but in order to make it a bit smaller-scale. Rather than, say, six adventure videos, we'll go for three. That means I need [b]three brickfilmers[/b], each willing to do one of the following:
[list=*]
[*]A Space, Arctic, Racers or any other kind of sci-fi animation.[/*]
[*]A Castle, Viking, Greek/Egyptian/ancient history, or high fantasy (elves, dwarves, trolls etc) animation. Could also possibly be explorers or adventurers of some kind, or even mountain climbing or extreme stunts - it doesn't have to be fantasy, but needs the big nature or historical setting.[/*]
[*]A Wild West, Dream-world, Beach/Hawaiian, Ninja or Spy animation, although to be honest there's the most freedom in terms of content with this one. If you have an idea that I haven't listed but you think is awesome and suitably different to the others, then ask me and I'll probably say yes.[/*]
[/list]
The idea is that each one is quite different to the others, so that a wide range of genres are shown. You can genre-bend (a robot knight in a Castle video? Aliens VS ninjas? Abraham Lincoln's time machine?) but it is important that each setting is vastly different.

For the purposes of this post, let's call the protagonist [b]Arlen[/b] (that doesn't have to be his name, it's just a stand-in). Arlen is a regular minifigure working in the modern world, doing [something fairly mundane, let's say he's a painter (of walls, not art)]. He's bored of it. On the way home from work, or even when he's at home, two portals open nearby. [b]Blot[/b] - the bad guy that everyone will be able to make - runs from one to the other, but Arlen gets sucked through as well. He ends up in a big chamber with lots of generic, blocky portals (literally just doors made of basic red-yellow-or-blue bricks) and is told by the [b]Keeper[/b] (a really geenric figure, like 70s or 80s style) that he must help stop Blot from uniting three portal gems. There's no time to get anyone else, as Blot's already gone through another portal and the Keeper (being a keeper) can't leave the multi-portal chamber - Arlen must go through. Arlen sees the chance to leave the mundane behind and have a proper adventure, and so takes it.

So, obviously the story for the intro video is mapped out, but for the other three there's almost total freedom. The only criteria is:
[list=*]
[*]Blot must be the main villain. He can have subordinates (e.g. for a Castle video, an evil wizard might provide the main challenge) but Blot will try to grab the gem near the end of the video. Somehow, Arlen will stop him, but the how is up to you. The video must end with Arlen having the gem, and I'll explain why in a second.[/*]
[*]Arlen has no powers of his own, though like all minifigs he can build and rebuild things if there are enough bricks around.[/*]
[*]Keep it PG-13, people.[/*]
[*]Length should be between 2 and 6 minutes. No more, and certainly no less. Let me know if you think those parameters are wrong.[/*]
[/list]

Arlen and any recurring characters (e.g. Blot) will have the same voice actors, as you might expect, but that comes later. First, would anyone like to volunteer to join? Like I said, there's a lot of freedom with this, and in terms of a deadline, I think the release date should be some time in the summer, like early july. That gives us all a lot of time to put together some high quality brickfilms.

So, anyone up for this? Let me know if you want any more information.

EDIT: Forgot to say, I'll take the intro video and the finale, when that comes around. If you'd like, I can post preliminary shots of the portal chamber and stuff sometime during the week.

Information on Blot: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/jampotstudios/9685361779/[/url]
BFCU Character Collection: [url]http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/topic/17700/brickfilm-cinematic-universe-character-collection-stage-thread/[/url]]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/189/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-02-15T11:59:15Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=backyardlegos]I really like this idea; if enough individual creativity is possible, I'm definitely willing to participate. I think the key is to have the only real commonality between the films is the protagonist and antagonist, and each brickfilmer needs to be able to create a fairly independent film that is linked to all the others; e.g. there's an overarching story, but each film can also be entertaining on it's own, so it's sort of a series that one may watch in any order. It would really help establish the BFCU, as well.[/quote]

That's really the idea. You start on the first video, the portal room, but you're free to watch the others in any order, and each film is pretty much independent. I figure people would be more motivated that way, and you avoid the problems of having too many needless discussions.

[quote=BrickStory]While reading your post I got really excited for a project like this, but when I read what Pritchard had to say I was brought back down to Earth. He's right in everything he said. Most people would loose interest really quickly and drop out, unfortunately. 

There is this game I used to play with my sisters where one of us starts a story, then another one of us continues where the other left off, and so on. This is pretty much the same except for the portal room and the almost broken fourth wall. My point is, there was a group like this on Flickr that played the story-telling game with accompanying MOCs. It was really cool, but only a few players managed to meet deadlines and everyone lost interest after a short while.[/quote]

I know. That's why I haven't really committed to this yet, because it's a big ask of anyone who's involved, and it's always difficult getting these sorts of things off the ground. Like I said, no biggee if this doesn't take, but I'm glad that aside from issues of practicality (which I foresaw anyway) the response to the concept itself has been pretty positive.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[jampot]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/189/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2014-02-13T06:40:32Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/318024/#p318024</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[While reading your post I got really excited for a project like this, but when I read what Pritchard had to say I was brought back down to Earth. He's right in everything he said. Most people would loose interest really quickly and drop out, unfortunately. 

There is this game I used to play with my sisters where one of us starts a story, then another one of us continues where the other left off, and so on. This is pretty much the same except for the portal room and the almost broken fourth wall. My point is, there was a group like this on Flickr that played the story-telling game with accompanying MOCs. It was really cool, but only a few players managed to meet deadlines and everyone lost interest after a short while.

I'm interested, but I don't think I could take part for the reason mentioned above. :/]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BrickStory]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/131723/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2014-02-13T06:11:37Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: BFCU Interactive Adventure]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I really like this idea; if enough individual creativity is possible, I'm definitely willing to participate. I think the key is to have the only real commonality between the films is the protagonist and antagonist, and each brickfilmer needs to be able to create a fairly independent film that is linked to all the others; e.g. there's an overarching story, but each film can also be entertaining on it's own, so it's sort of a series that one may watch in any order. It would really help establish the BFCU, as well.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[backyardlegos]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[backyardlegos@gmail.com]]></email>
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			</author>
			<updated>2014-02-13T03:57:49Z</updated>
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