For good or for evil?

This is a great idea. It'll most likely be frustrating, but I can see the potential.

The only thing I disagree on is semantics - you say we should help were we can because we are animators. I say we should help because we know more about animation (technically, they are animators too). But that's just me being picky, feel free to ignore this paragraph.

Well put, I originally had written "because we more skilled" but decided that sounded too aloof.  Anyway, I know it won't exactly be easy, I've already been flooded with nearly 50 messages since posting this late last night, but I expected it.  As I noted in the video, it is also keeping my channel alive, because very soon I was going to run out of older content to upload, and I still have several years of college before I'll be able to access my LEGO, and after that I have to worry about a job, and other things.  This allows me to keep my channel from dying.  Looking at it from a more monetary point of view, thanks to Google Adsense, I earn about a dollar a day from my channel.  Not much, but it ads up, and I welcome any extra cash.

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You obviously still have a webcam. KG and I are, I think, proving that you don't need access to a ton of lego to turn out a quick 30 second thing for fun every now and then - and if you don't drop a Radiohead tune into the mix, you can earn cash off it. I have some ideas for other things outside the realm of natural justice for bad standups that should be equally easy to do, and it's literally a half a day's work (not counting the time spent afterwards pressing F5 to see if you have any new comments). It's a good lesson for the people who follow your tutorials too - you don't need to spend $100s on lego or devote years to learning CG techniques, just pick up a $5 lego set, point your camera at it and go.

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Ooh, I like that.

Have you received any messages from people wanting to be promoted yet? You should have kept on the opening annotation on for longer so people could properly read it and realize that you choose who to feature.

Cool stuff, Nathan.

Sorry, VN told me about this, so I should have thought to warn you, but he actually animated 5 of the twelve shots in the film, so one of the shots you showed was done by me. It's no problem, though. I should have thought to let you know what shots he did.

- Leo

Hah, wouldn't we all...

Nathan, what is the purpose of this project? I thought you would be helping people by promoting amateur filmmakers needing help brickfilming. The video you posted was by VN and Leonardo812, who are both really good. It seems like you are just promoting, already popular, amazing videos. I hoped you could help out n00b animators like me become as good as VN and Leonardo812 and you.