Noodle is right, the target audience has changed. I personally want to make a film to impress the members and will once I fill out this blasted BrickLink order and start to script. I am willing to "Audition" for the review panel, but I will miss your reviews Noodle. In my opinion, this should be taken as a note to all brickfilmers on the site that this is what happens when YouTube becomes the objective and the community is left on a shelf for an afterthought.

You will be missed Noodle, I have read many a review by you.

I am sorry to hear this, Noodle, as you were quite reviewer. I enjoyed reading your reviews, as they were helpful when deciding whether I should watch a certain brickfilm or not. I am happy that you are not completely leaving the site. You are a great member, and one to be missed dearly if you ever do leave.

I do agree with you on the state of not just BiM, but the entire culture of brickfilming. It was once an art that was beautiful, but has been tarnished by the Partner Program and the desire to make a quick buck. I believe I speak for most of the community when I say that the art of brickfilming is already dead. It has been buried by too many 30 second shorts that deliver a short punchline. Sure, they're entertaining, but there is no real effort put into it. Even Egyptian Holiday could have been much better than it is.

I bid you good luck, Noodle.

We're not asking for epics like TCOTY or The Magic Portal, but constantly producing things like this by amateurs, or even things with little to no storyline by animators with known ability to make future classics.

And, no Brickfilming isn't dead YET. But over the past few years, it's taken some serious blows. In fact, I honestly can't remember the time we got any real publicity (which, in a way, was a major reason we're in this state to begin with). Hopefully, we won't get the huge rush of new animators we've seen in the past few months

Last edited by lil'jj (June 21, 2011 (11:07pm))

This isn't YouTube, so I think editorialized content should always be a part of a niche community like this.  I want to probably cut down significantly on the number of films that the panel is expected to review, as well as the number of panel members, we've been discussing ways of doing this for a while now.  I'm not really dying to get more suggestions as I feel sort of flooded with them and a lot of times they're things we've tried that didn't work, but if anybody has articulate, specific ideas of how they think we could improve this situation, feel free to share them in this thread.

Personally I think we're in a transition point, where the older members are leaving, either more college or to get on with the rest of their lives, and the new members are emerging. Obviously this is tough, given the fact that the site loses much of it's maturity and quality whilst going through this face, but give a year or so and I'm sure we'll be starting a new 'golden' age. And after all, I'm sure we're all the same when we first started - simple shorts to satisfy ourselves. Admittedly YouTube has corrupted this system to an extent, but in my book it hasn't effected this site all that much.

In any case, it's with much regret I watch you leave. You've contributed many reviews to the panel and thus have been a great help to the site.

Bye.

Just wondering, Does anyone consider me one of those silly immature new members making lousy movies?

I feel bad that Noodle is resigning (I include myself as a major part of that); I respect his contributions to the community, and I believe that my posts and such have played a part in his resignition and I apologize for that.

Last edited by Juggernaut Pictures (June 22, 2011 (08:14am))

Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.

You don't need to make a film in order to critique one.