Cynthia Price (thickasabrick) bought Brickfilms.com from Revmen. A lot of stuff ensued, and everyone eventually ended up here.
You can read about it here.

It's awesome that you came back! Hope to see films from you soon.

-JK

Thanks guys, thanks for such a warm welcome. I looked over that page that you recommended Kidden: it sounds to me like a lot of drama. However, it kind of warms my heart to see that people will stand up against corporatism and move on to something better. This 'Taab's posts sounded way too concerned with profits and patronage, and that's not what lego filming is about. I'm glad that the community agreed with that sentiment, and I'm sure that Taab felt like an idiot for investing money in a site and then ruining it to the point that it was deserted by its own community.

Haha, I always appreciate a bit of introduction into the goings on around here, but I'm definitely not prepared to enter a contest. I'll probably have to completely relearn the SMA process before I can actually start putting something together, and I imagine I'll have to invest in a more modern webcam...the piece of crap I used ten years ago probably isn't going to cut it against all these new HD cams....hell, ten years ago we could only dream about affordable webcams of such high quality.

So perhaps you guys could give me the rundown on the tools of the modern lego filmer?  Back in the day I used Anasazi to film, Audacity to soundtrack, and then assembled it all in movie maker. I'm really hoping there's some better free software available these days...I loved Anasazi, but it would be cool if there's something out there that lets you do all that stuff in one program. Plus, I'm excited about incorporating Pro Tools into the process; Pro Tools is often marketed as a soundtracking software, but I've never done soundtracks, only songs. So give me some tips, what are you guys using?

Welcome back. Another good animating program is Helium Frog, I prefer this over monkeyjam because you don't have to wait for it to load for ages whenever you want to play back your animation.

BRAWL 2013 ENTRY Quack In Time
"Why in the world did you do a weird language if you know English?" - tenny1028

Great to see you back, even though I don't remember you. To start off with, here are some topics I recommend visiting - Cafe Corner, for everything that doesn't fit anywhere else, or that doesn't warrant a topic. A Beginners Guide To BiM, great for learning about the site. And The Animation Challenge, for testing your animation skills.

Enjoy your stay!

I didn't get to ask this question because the Split topic got closed...  So, does anyone know why TaaB targeted the Brickfilming community?  And how did she become admin right away?

Maybe she was a Megablock CEO.

How much money are we talking about?