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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377913/#p377913</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yeah, but, there are still original brickfilms being made. This summer's contest definitely spawned a lot of unique and creative brickfilms.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2018 23:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree with [b]BrothersWaughStudios[/b]. Studios aren't really creative any more.  I mean it's fine to create a sequel to a movie... like what George Lucas did with the original Star Wars 1977. As he created a great film, with a good sequel. However, I don't like the idea of studios creating a whole bunch of prequels to a franchise. Although, you do need to make a profit on a film, you can still do that with a creative film.

Also, with the new trilogy that came out and including Solo, most of it is just building upon older characters. But I'm not saying that either one of these films are bad and all, but you know half the people came there because it was just a Star Wars film. And not just because it's Alden Ehrenreich, or Donald Glover.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Tiny World Studios)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 23:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377732/#p377732</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is a danger in overgeneralizing these things. I think saying things like original brickfilms are becoming a dead art and the movie industry is running out of ideas are all over generalizations, and you just need to keep searching for the people with creative ideas, because they do exist and are still making great stuff, but aren't necessarily the ones making billions at the box office or on the front page of YouTube. In fact, you hear this sort of thing in every artistic medium: The amount of times people say that the music industry is nothing but talentless nobodies obviously don't look deep enough to find that there are a lot of great musicians working today.

Today, when brickfilming isn't as niche as it used to be, you are bound to notice a trend in non-original, IP based films, and when something attracts a large crowd of people, of course there is going to be a lot of bad, but it's easy to think that the brickfilming world in general is in decline if you only focus on those who aren't putting as much effort into their work, but in reality, we are actually in a pretty good place right now, where more and more brickfilmers are joining the scene and making great content. And even regarding IP based work as 'bad' is in itself over generalizing things. I'd go as far to say that the quality of work made by newcomers has increased immensely in the past few years.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (William Osborne)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377727/#p377727</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[quote=BrothersWaughStudios]Yeah, that's because no one in the movie industry right now is creative. All they know how to do is copy. Jurassic Park remakes, the Ghostbusters remake, and all these super hero and Star Wars movies. No one in the movie industry knows how to do their own thing.

At least Jackie Chan is still making original movies[/quote]

Yeah, but even here you just have to search a bit.
I would recommend films by [b]Edgar Wright[/b], [b]Quentin Tarantino[/b], [b]Christopher Nolan[/b], [b]Martin McDonagh[/b], the [b]Coen brothers[/b], [b]Alfonso Cuarón[/b], [b]David Fincher[/b], [b]Martin Scorsese [/b]... and hopefully soon myself :lol: 
But for real, I think if you search a bit you can find a lot of incredible directors who make great original films! :)]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Yetgo)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377725/#p377725</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[quote=Yetgo]I think brickfilmers can make what they want to do, if they want to make stories in allready existing worlds it's okay to me if they work hard to do so. Sometimes it's great to see things in a new perspective, so if the brickfilmer has a new creative idea about an existing property he should film it. :) 

For me personally it is just more fun to create totally new characters, so I rarely use existing stuff.  :D 

I think, a good middle way is hiding existing stuff in the background as kind of an easter egg and so making the story not completely dependent of it, an example is [b]Murder in the Arena[/b] by A&M Studios and Legostudio01.

The only real problem I see here is that brickfilms with already existing themes and characters are way more popular then the ones with original new ideas. A way to prevent that is to search a bit for that, because there are enough Brickfilmers with original ideas out there! :D 


Also, I think the same thing can be said about the movie market, I recognized that a lot of people, me incluuded, are already pissed about the big studios only making sequels, prequels and remakes. :rolleyes:[/quote]

Yeah, that's because no one in the movie industry right now is creative. All they know how to do is copy. Jurassic Park remakes, the Ghostbusters remake, and all these super hero and Star Wars movies. No one in the movie industry knows how to do their own thing.

At least Jackie Chan is still making original movies.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (BrothersWaughStudios)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377722/#p377722</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I think brickfilmers can make what they want to do, if they want to make stories in allready existing worlds it's okay to me if they work hard to do so. Sometimes it's great to see things in a new perspective, so if the brickfilmer has a new creative idea about an existing property he should film it. :) 

For me personally it is just more fun to create totally new characters, so I rarely use existing stuff.  :D 

I think, a good middle way is hiding existing stuff in the background as kind of an easter egg and so making the story not completely dependent of it, an example is [b]Murder in the Arena[/b] by A&M Studios and Legostudio01.

The only real problem I see here is that brickfilms with already existing themes and characters are way more popular then the ones with original new ideas. A way to prevent that is to search a bit for that, because there are enough Brickfilmers with original ideas out there! :D 


Also, I think the same thing can be said about the movie market, I recognized that a lot of people, me incluuded, are already pissed about the big studios only making sequels, prequels and remakes. :rolleyes:]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Yetgo)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377720/#p377720</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It's easy too when the characters are already created. Put character x in situation y and it's easy to come up with how they might react. What if the batmobile broke down and Wolverine was the tow truck driver? What if Luke Skywalker had met Dumbledore instead of Obi Wan? What if minecraft were made of bricks instead of blocks? Lol, I still don't quite get the concept of Minecraft Lego sets. It seems like sort of a strange moire pattern to me.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (thistof)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2018 05:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377718/#p377718</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[quote=BrothersWaughStudios]Yeah, the DC/Marvel/Star Wars brickfilm market is so oversaturated, it's mind boggling.[/quote]

It's not really mind boggling. That's the same market the major studios are really pushing now too anyway...]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[thedylandproductions@yahoo.com (Dyland)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377716/#p377716</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yeah, the DC/Marvel/Star Wars brickfilm market is so oversaturated, it's mind boggling. There are the select few who actually do good work, such as AFewGoodFilms, AubreyStudios82, Brick FORCE Studios, Huxley Berg Studios, Lisaisanut, etc., but there are so many others who make all these super hero brickfilms, and a lot of them time, they kinda suck. We actually started out with some IP films, and they're all bad. We were one of those AubreyStudios82/AkashLegoProductions copycats you see almost EVERYWHERE nowadays. 

It is definitely more challenging to make an original brickfilm, but we contend that the payoff is better, and you'd likely be more proud of the finished product than, say, an Infinity War trailer recreation. There are definitely some IP brickfilms worth checking out though, like Gamerzone1500's LEGO Batman and Indiana Jones: The Movie, and Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Eye films. And, though it's mentioned a lot, we still feel that Star Wars: The Great Disturbance should get props for being truly spectacular, even though it is an IP film. :) 

Not that IP films are bad, it's just that, as everyone else has said, there are WAY too many of them. MindGame and Penta are still putting out quality original brickfilms though. We actually have several original ideas in the works.

Some great original brickfilms:

The Nattodesu series (Lisaisanut)

The Enforcer and Beyond Recall (supercoolclark)

The LEGO Hot Fuzz (TheRisingFreak)]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (BrothersWaughStudios)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/377689/#p377689</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It's true that the hardest part is to find original stories ; I don't have this issue since the local film director and scenarist, my son, is always bristling with fresh ideas, but as an adult I'd be hard pressed to find something that I both can do and that hasn't been done already.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (47Firkin)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/376789/#p376789</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A lot of it might come down to people having trouble finding inspiration for more original ideas. Some might just really want to animate but don’t know WHAT to animate. As many users have already stated, IPs have the characters, locations etc already laid out for you.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Evolved Turtle)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/376513/#p376513</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Funny to read that topic, 'cause I've noticed that "zombie" brickfilm seemed quite popular too :D  (Don't know why)…..
Is there any hope to have an audience while making original brickfilms (trying to promote actively a channel). I still find some brickfilms like this one : [url]https://youtu.be/ISlAOLv9oM4[/url] with more than 1M views since the begining of the year, even this one with less fluidity has a decent number of views:  [url]https://youtu.be/Jq0nOSe-W2E[/url]  
But it's true that some even greater brickfilms have sometime REALLY low audience. What make those brickfilms quite popular compare to other ones? Any clue? :o]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Nounours Production)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2018 21:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/376397/#p376397</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Something I just noticed about the BFG festival 2017 Best Film nominees is that they are half non-IP and half IP-based. A nice balance there, in a determination of quality rather than visibility.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[sillypenta@gmail.com (Penta)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Are original brickfilms a dead art?]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/376324/#p376324</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yes, looking back now I agree it was wrong for that to be implied as the primary reason at some point earlier in the thread. I agree with what you have said, and there is nothing wrong with it; I like to think most people would agree. Hopefully this thread won't turn into an "IP vs. original" debate, but stay on topic as just discussing the current state of non-IP brickfilms and how and where to find them.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[sillypenta@gmail.com (Penta)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/376321/#p376321</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Or maybe some people make IP brickfilms because they just want to make fanfiction. There's nothing wrong with that at all. Some people just want to use their hobby as a way of having fun, with things they enjoy, and engaging with other fans of the same material. It's why I keep making Marvel brickfilms; they don't get very many more views than my original content, it's just about what I personally enjoy doing in the [i]very[/i] little time that I have to make brickfilms. Plus, most of my best friends in the community are people I met through working on the Marvel Brickfilm Universe.

Quality issues aside, not everyone who makes IP brickfilms is out to "pander" to a mass audience.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (jampot)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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