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How do you make the effect of the dark background? I mean we only see the minifig and the floor and the background is black. I take as example 'The Magician' ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNKkY4vwDvE ) by ZachMG.
When I do that effect I simply don't light the background. I can't think of any other solution to this.
I like to think I'm quite experienced in this subject.
I used a big grey baseplate, cleared it and lit it using only one lamp from the top.
Yeah I do the same as Hazzat.
I actually found this by accident with my brother, and I thought it looked aweseome, so I made a big LEGO brawl, and minifigs were all beating eachother up in a dark expanse. 
Perhaps you need to show an image or diagram, because when I tried this, the lamp lit half of the room up.
You must have a powerful lamp, I'd guess!!
I have one halogen lamp, and one "energy efficient" one.
The walls in my animation room are painted light tan.
Cover around the edges using black card or something more opaque. The 'shade' bit on my lamp is plastic and points the light in a certain direction, so you'd never guess that my book collection sits behind my animation table.
I'm doing this in my current film. What I did was I put a black piece of card behing the baseplate, set the grain down a bit and set the contrast up a bit.
Thanks to everyone! Your comments helped me. 
helped me 2 
i've been wondering the same thing
I use a black towel and lower the exposure.
I use some black card at the back of my set and just only highlight the baseplate. Win win situation. Plus it's fair easy, I'd say.
If you switch the lamp on the left off, the one on the right acts as a tight spotlight.
Ah, I see we're bumping old threads. I guess someone might find the information useful though.
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