Bricks in Motion
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Hi. I'm VERY new to brickfilming..so new I still dont knw if ill be into it once i truly get started...but for my first sketch if been creating thier is a sense where lego miniman(?) is falling from the sky....how do i make this shot look clean and fluid without using computer editing techniques? Do i hold up the character and drop it and take the picture...? i dont get it..plz help...thx. 
You won't be able to make it look clean and fluid without using computer editing techniques, you need to do something we call MASKING.
I made a tutorial on how to mask in GIMP, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-y2_Ew9L0 .
1 minifig, a sheet of blue card, some blu-tak/sticky-tak/whatever. Watch out for shadows on the card.
Or that, but it wont look as clean and you will have to make sure you hide the blue tac all the time.
I actually would recommend not doing masking until you have some basic animation skills under your belt.
I agree with night owl...computer animation is alittle advanced for new brickfilmers...fishing line or magician wire works.
This isnt computer animation, its image editing, you could even do it on paint.
i agree with you on that rsteenoven...but some people are still drawing stick figures on paint and not grasping the endless possibilities what paint can actually do. But if you know paint and use it properly, go for it.
how would you do masking with paint? is there a tutorial?
I've been trying to figure out how to mask on Paint... is there a tutorial that anyone knows of?
Why don't you just download GIMP, its free and you will be able to mask easier than on paint.
Yeah, it's very simple also
wait, I thought you couldn't mask with gimp, only something like Bafran 
I made a damn tutorial on how to do it 
yes, but someone told me that you couldn't mask with Gimp. I think's it t'was young, grasshopper young.
Get Gimp-GAP, use Bluebox, specifically the VALUE setting. If you can film with your blue/green screen a long way in the background, that will reduce the reflections off the super-glossy Lego pieces. If you're able to control the depth-of-field, go fairly shallow, but not very shallow. An aperture of between 5.6 and 11 works well when your key colour is in the far background.
And that's all there is too it. Free, quality blue-screening.
here's how to do it in paint,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoehEhox … annel_page
Guys,I'm new too.Every time I put in the minifig, the lighting changes 
HELP NEEDED!!!!!!
It's been a loooooong time since I saw one o' these.
-Donsalvatore
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