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In two of the great films Black Ops by Keshen and 007 by whomever I realized they had bricks raining down after an explosion. How did they get those.
I pretty sure that Keshen8 animated his in the editing program, after effects or Photoshop. I'm pretty sure that you would be able to do it by taking pictures of bricks and layering them in gimp 2.6 or you editing program. 
It's a simple thing called Smoke and Screening. Simply open up Gimp, (you need a picture of just the background and the bricks you want) create a first layer with the shot. (Hold the bricks up with other bricks, play-do whatever you need as long as your camera is in the same position as background shot) then create! a layer under the top layer (the background.) Erase the supporting bricks and there you are!
Or create CGI bricks, animate them falling, and composite them into the shot.
Or create CGI bricks, animate them falling, and composite them into the shot.
Yeah, like, modeling, animating, rendering, and compositing the animation over and under layers of the brickfilm is easier.
For my advise, I'd simply just mask the frames (It seems that the others have already given you a good explaination). While CGI would be the more 'popular' choice, it takes some time to learn, as well as some dedication. On compositing a CG shot, that's a whole 'nother ball game all together.
Im pretty sure that keshen doesent really animate it, he uses a technique called rotoscoping.
Rotoscoping is still animating. I don't think it's a technique that would help you animate falling bricks though.
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