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Mine is when you first start off you don't care what people think you just have fun and you could do it all day, even if there was natural light. You would feel proud even in the crappest piece of work. Unlike now when your experienced you have to make sure your work is at it's best.
What did you love about brickfilming when you started?
Mine is when you first start off you don't care what people think you just have fun and you could do it all day, even if there was natural light. You would feel proud even in the crappest piece of work.
this.
And than you start thinking and stop making brickfilms because you want everything to be perfect while you can't.
Nothing, my brother kindly made it hell for me.
Moyrust wrote:Mine is when you first start off you don't care what people think you just have fun and you could do it all day, even if there was natural light. You would feel proud even in the crappest piece of work.
this.
And than you start thinking and stop making brickfilms because you want everything to be perfect while you can't.
Wow, dude
This is the complete and perfect truth about brickfilming RIGHT THERE. +50 Epic points for you
I remember making a cruddy brickfilm about Batman and Terminator. I used natural light and
you could see the stuff on my desk. I deleted it from my computer but my friend has it on his computer.
I remember watching a playmobil stop motion films at my friends house and I did a voice for her. It wasn't until about 2 years later I made my own Brickfilm. Each frame was out of focus and the camera moved and shook, the frame rate was at about 1 frame a second and I remember I got really angry because it didn't look like any of the Allbeehive animations. I'm still using windows movie maker now though. It hasn't failed me yet. But I do wish I had AE. 
What I loved about brickfilming when I started was the using of lego. Really, I started watching when I was like 11/12, I loved lego.
What I loved about brickfilming when I started was the using of lego. Really, I started watching when I was like 11/12, I loved lego.
And you still do..
Right?
We saw "The Great Disturbance" and then realized our true calling. (That is, until we tried to make an hour long Star Wars brickfilm and epicly failed. Then we weren't so sure... 
) We never gave up though, and we are still, slowly but surely, improving!
The hot minifigs.
I used to be amazed when I saw even the most terrible brickfilms on YouTube (with like 1 fps, barely any movement), and I just loved them. The first one I remember seeing was a Harry Potter one, I think. I tried making my own, too, around 5 years ago. I made a small robber animation (yes, on the very city set that I'm using now- its that old, except back then it only had about 3 buildings) and it was blurry, out of focus, shaky, and the animated minifig just jumped all around randomly, not in a straight line, when walking. But I loved it and I showed it to any guest or relative that came to our house. When I saw the LEGO Star Wars animation contest on LEGO.com, I started something that is now probably going to be over an hour long, and I'm still working on it. Of course, it missed the contest deadline by years, and its sill not done, but I have over 20 minutes done, and over 3,500 pics. Those were the days...
Of course I just started serious brickfilming when I joined youtube and BiM a week ago.
Wellp, thats my [extremely] detailed story of what got me to love brickfilming. But, Molyrust hit it on the spot with what he said too.
EDIT: I HAVE POSTED THE LEOG CRIMINAL VIDEO THAT I WROTE ABOUT ABOVE ON MY CHANNEL, CLICK THE LINK IN MY SIG TO SEE HOW TERRIBLE IT IS! 
Last edited by DerTarchin (August 26, 2010 (09:50am))
That feeling when you saw your first real animation clip and you think it's so awesome haha.
Mine is when you first start off you don't care what people think you just have fun and you could do it all day, even if there was natural light. You would feel proud even in the crappest piece of work. Unlike now when your experienced you have to make sure your work is at it's best.
Dude, you nailed it right there. When I started it was because of a contest on LEGO.com. I thought I was going to win, before I even started. Luckily I didn't have time to enter, cause I would have epically failed. But my first finished one I videotaped my digital cameras screen while playing the pictures really quickly, and talked. Then I watched it on my TV and thought it was the sweetest thing ever, then my brother found WMM.
The fact that I was in a community of other people who liked what I liked. Also that I could make my "legos" move.
-JK
i loved the fact the my videos where being watch by other people- and they liked them
My main love was when you start to yearn... you start to want so badly the skill level of others. Like when I saw MindGame, I tried so much to be like him. And I tried to get his attention and ask him about how my animation skills were. (OBVIOUSLY CRAPPY... at the time. )
Yeah... those were the days.... 
Mine is when you first start off you don't care what people think you just have fun and you could do it all day, even if there was natural light. You would feel proud even in the crappest piece of work. Unlike now when your experienced you have to make sure your work is at it's best.
What everyone else has said. You're completely right. I started 4 years back, and my first brickfilm was inspired my Nathan Well's "Beast" therefore my Brickfilm was going to be exactly like his, of course. Heh! I remember the Minifigures moved about 5 Studs per shot, but I was extremely happy with it, and had fun running it together on the old laptop at 7 frames per second. I continued (Animating constantly) for about 2 weeks, and then got mad for some reason and stopped.
I've stopped and started many times since then, every time improving, but I found some reason to quit. However I have never stopped watching and loving other Brickfilms. It was only at the end of July after I came out of Hospital (Don't ask) that I decided I wanted to start again. I had way more patience and was doing brilliantly. Main reason I decided to do it again was thanks to HarryAndBillyBrick - I watched their latest Assassin's episode and said to myself "I loved that, yet at the same time it was quite flawed with flickers, and blue tack in sight a lot - so if I find that so awesome then I should try it for myself again, and not care about those problems." and I have improved since I started back.
Technically, not counting my long movie, I am still starting REAL brickfilming.... soo, and what I love now is when anyone looks at my videos, and every viewer counts for me. And I love it when someone posts a helpful comment or a happy comment! I guess I might feel what Lamplight said, and I might yearn more viewers, subs, etc, but right now, I'm fine with only a couple people.
I started with an extension course in primary school, and I joined an animation course with two friends, and we decided to do a bunch of simple Lego things, and getting out of school for 2 hours to play with Lego was as good as it got. I started making more junk at home with an old webcam, but really basic stuff like a minifig walking/sliding into a printer and coming out running, tailed by a troll. Making stuff like that in half an hour while watching in the office on a Friday night when I was 11, was so much fun mainly becuase I could create my own cool movie in one night.
I'm only now realising I haven't done any work on my current project for the last... 7 months. Man I wish I could just pause time and just animate for as long as I want without having to worry about school, social commitments and sport.
When I first saw pizza movies videos, I thought they were the best animation ever. Then I met Zach Machais. Slowly but surely, using WMM and then graduting to monkeyjam, I can honestly say, I'm a better animator than the person who inspired me.
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