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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Most amusing! :love:]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Hemma Studios]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/1007/</uri>
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			<updated>2009-09-22T11:39:09Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Wait... isn't Star over? :/]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[ninja chewit]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/704/</uri>
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			<updated>2009-09-22T11:19:54Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/83133/#p83133</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Thanks so much for the kind comments.  I'm especially happy to hear that the story kept people's interest, despite the lengthy dialog scenes and minimal special effects.

I've recently updated my "studio"'s web-site with a little additional info about the making of this film.  It's now hosted on StopMotionCentral.com which I'm really happy about.  Goodbye forever to mediocre, ad-annoying, soon-to-be-closing Geocities.

[url]http://www.stopmotioncentral.com/ancientbricks/crisis_reverted/index.html[/url]]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[AncientBricks]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/167/</uri>
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			<updated>2009-09-14T01:47:09Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[This was honestly my favorite entry besides Time and Space
The story was brilliant and the intro and out tro  were amazing and near perfection i could see some obvious green screening in the beginning but i really like the idea of the book opening
the whole story kept me interested the whole time and the sound design was pretty good in some difficult spots but you seemed to have pulled it off nicely
the animation in the third pat seemed a bit choppy and unrealistic in some parts and i thought the camera angles and lighting could have been better executed but that is just me
But then i guess i didn't take into consideration that you were working with someone in a different country
so yeah overall this film was great except minor flaws i saw every now and then
Great job
Congrats on Placing in the top three
-Mutuceba]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Mutuceba]]></name>
				<email><![CDATA[alexander.mutuc@yahoo.com]]></email>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/591/</uri>
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			<updated>2009-08-30T02:52:54Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/78415/#p78415</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/77067/#p77067"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Saw this flick today. It absolutely blew me away! I thought everything was stunning. The script was brilliant, I thought it was one of the best Sci-fi brickfilmstories I've ever seen. The animation was smooth and the set design was great! I also loved the opening and ending titles.
Amazing job! I think this one should've won!]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Infurno]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/227/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-08-25T14:34:48Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/77067/#p77067</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/75522/#p75522"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=HomerBall]...although PdoubleyouC hardly did any animation for this movie.[/quote]

PWC did all the animation in the 33rd century ship.  Quantity-wise it was less than the 27th century scenes that I did, but difficulty-wise, I'd say his shots were more challenging to animate: shaking room, rotating and falling can, cart flipping over the rail, broom flying into the warp core, warp core melting down.  That's arguably more difficult than animating walks and a lot of dialog, which is mostly what I did.


[quote=JKAnimation]CRAP, I forgot to post how awesome this film is!   I loved it so much, the voice acting was great. I loved the special effects. The animation was great, too.  This has a good chance of winning. 
Awesome job. (BTW, I loved the trailer.)[/quote]

Well, we didn't win, but were excited to come in 3rd.  Glad you liked it, JK. :)]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[AncientBricks]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/167/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-08-20T15:50:05Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/75522/#p75522</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[CRAP, I forgot to post how awesome this film is! 
I loved it so much, the voice acting was great. I loved the special effects. The animation was great, too. 
This has a good chance of winning. 
Awesome job. (BTW, I loved the trailer.)]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Just Kidden]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/146/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-08-14T14:07:07Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/73382/#p73382</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Another great STAR entry with a great plot.
Well done although PdoubleyouC hardly did any animation for this movie.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[HomerBall]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/610/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-08-14T07:13:15Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=Rich]Loved that, it was excellently paced, unlike some other Brickfilms that seem to go by in a flash. [/quote]
That's exactly what we were going for pacing-wise.  Glad you liked it.

[quote=Rich]The only thing that annoyed me slightly was that some of the character dialogue involved no animation for several seconds, and there was the odd bit of light flicker.[/quote]
I admit that animating the long dialog scenes was quite challenging.  Some of the dialog really suggested some movements, but much of it didn't, and I didn't want to err in the direction of too much arm waving during dialog that can show up in brickfilms.  I'm still undecided about the "small shaking" approach to dialog in a brickfilm, where the minifig sort of wiggles around a tiny bit while he's talking, whether I prefer that approach to dialog over a still minifig.

As for the light flicker, don't forget there was a gyrating warp core on the other side of the room that was bound to flash and flicker constantly.  That's a plausible excuse, right? :)  Perhaps animators who really struggle with light flicker should just have all their films set around warp cores or bonfires so the flicker actually works FOR them, not against them.

[quote=Rich]And could your friend get me some signed albums?[/quote]
Are you asking for signed comedy records by my friend?  I'm afraid you lost me.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[AncientBricks]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/167/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-08-14T05:16:00Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/73328/#p73328</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/70519/#p70519"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Loved that, it was excellently paced, unlike some other Brickfilms that seem to go by in a flash. The only thing that annoyed me slightly was that some of the character dialogue involved no animation for several seconds, and there was the odd bit of light flicker.

And could your friend get me some signed albums?]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Rich]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/130/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-08-05T11:13:09Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/70519/#p70519</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/70468/#p70468"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[My friend Chuck D decided to share the following ideas with me about where CR went wrong and where it could go for a sequel or prequel.  I thought it was pretty genius and hilarious:

[quote=Chuck D]
Could they train a dog to take the Coke can off the counter and throw it in the trash?

And what was Spaceman planning to do when he left the room? Mingle with the natives? "Hi! I'm from the past. My life-altering mission was to move a can of Coke 4 inches to the right. What do you do?"

And when they send the Elijah guy next, will Spaceman still be there prior to the meltdown? If they failed attempt after attempt, would there
ultimately be 40 cadets in the room when they continue to make efforts? At that point, the machine would be stopped by running into idiot cadets and the meltdown averted. Either that, or the machine is strong and powerful enough to gore through all the bodies into a blood bath. I'd watch that! 

What I really want to see is the Spaceman Files. A volume of episodes about what Spaceman does in the future once the crisis is actually averted and he spends the rest of his life there. When is that release?

You know what Buchanan should do? Deliver fresh pretzels. Oh, but the can was already there. And crisis remains unreverted. Dang!

Why doesn't Buchanan send intercept for the stray meteLEGOr that hits the ship? Can he find someone to blow it up? Or alter its path?

I also want to see the prequel...Spaceman Flunks Astrophysics: The College Years

So many possibilities!!!![/quote]]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[AncientBricks]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/167/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-08-05T04:48:31Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/70468/#p70468</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/67908/#p67908"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=AncientBricks]I often feel that many brickfilms, given the challenges of stop-mo, often fly by too quickly.  I was going for the opposite effect, very relaxed pacing, let you sit in there and soak up their world a bit, enjoy being there for a while.[/quote]
Despite that, I felt the begin could have been done a little differently, like a narrative rather than a reading of text.  Had I not been patient, I'd have closed the video at the 2 minute mark out of lack of interest.  But after all those backstory stuff, it got me interested.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Lechnology]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/80/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-07-29T08:49:09Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/67908/#p67908</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/67855/#p67855"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Thanks everyone for the kind comments.  I'm glad to hear people are enjoying it.

The slow pacing was a conscious choice, to make it feel more like an old fashioned TV sci-fi show, like a Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock.  I often feel that many brickfilms, given the challenges of stop-mo, often fly by too quickly.  I was going for the opposite effect, very relaxed pacing, let you sit in there and soak up their world a bit, enjoy being there for a while.   

I also wanted to make a film with a storyline and plot you could sink your teeth into, and with plenty of dialog to allow a little character development.  So I'm pleased to hear that some found the story and the script some of the film's best points.  Obviously, the visual effects are pretty simple, so as we were making the film, we were hoping the strength of the story would carry it.  And hopefully the animation was just good enough not to detract from the telling of the story.  Our 13 pages of script turned into a 15 minute films (almost exactly 1 page per minute, isn't that like a rule-of-thumb?)

Glad to hear someone liked the explosion sounds, I was hoping they wouldn't sound too obviously "mouth made".  :)

[quote=Leftfielder]Love the Asimov (not as much as the Heinlein, but close enough).[/quote]

I've never read any Heinlein, may have to take a break from the Foundation Series and give him a try.  I must admit that I prefer Asimov's Robot series to Foundation.  And I loved the campiness of iRobot.  

[quote=Leftfielder]And I appreciated test results list ;)[/quote]

Ah, you recognized some of the names on the list then?  :)  Cool.]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[AncientBricks]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/167/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-07-29T04:18:24Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/67855/#p67855</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/67825/#p67825"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Love the Asimov (not as much as the Heinlein, but close enough).
Excellent film with good pacing.
And I appreciated test results list ;)]]></content>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Leftfielder]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/576/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-07-29T01:30:57Z</updated>
			<id>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/67825/#p67825</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: STAR: Crisis Reverted]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/67653/#p67653"/>
			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I love it...that was awesome...good job...]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MPfist0]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/452/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2009-07-28T20:06:32Z</updated>
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