First of all, when I first saw your clip I hadn't read your description at all so I didn't realize it was CGI. At first I thought it was stop motion. I would be very interested in seeing more! Great job on making it look nice! As Pritchard already said, if he was running he probably should be going a bit faster. The slide worked great though! I like your blender videos cause they seem closer to actual stop motion than any of the other blender videos I've seen. You've got a new subscriber.

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Yeah, it was suppose to be a run cycle haha.  I was basing it off of Quigibo's Walking Tutorial and apparently the only run cycle he had only was 4 frames long... I though that would look odd for a 15 fps movie so I took a little "creative license" and added a 5th frame... Oh well, it should be pretty easy to fix to pull that extra frame out.

Thanks   Realism is what I am aiming for, and trying to achieve that in some reasonable amount of time is also a goal I have. 

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Well maybe not faster, as it took about 5 minutes per frame, but defiantly for the special effects and limitless legos.  As for the films I would like to create, CGI was the better option.  I will always respect the brickfilming hobbyist that puts in the time and effort to animate frame by frame.  Though I have to say, building the models then animating/ compositing the movie overnight does have its perks.

Thank you all for your feed back, and hopefully (soon) I will have a trailer for a (possible) series finished... I might have motivation to actually finish it due to a school contest that I could enter for some prize money.   Anyways, thanks again!

I thought it was lego! good job! but he was a little slow

You have a point, but once you make a wall for example, you can just save that file and copy/paste to make a bigger building. And once you have a walk cycle (I may be wrong here) you can just save that movement and use it again and again.

With lighting, can you not move the CGI lamp anywhere, and ajust the number of lights, the brightness and type of light it gives off as well? With real lamps, you don't have those things, unless you get different bulbs which may or not be what you want. As to modeling, you can bring in entire brick libraries, and even make your own peice if Lego doesn't make what you want. You can also build against the law of gravity, and put peices into each other, as well as have stuff just float there if you want.

As to speed, you can see the fruits of your labor quicker with stop-motion. But with CGI, you can model the scenes, animate them, and then just sit back a relax while your computer does all the work. Although render times are very long, so I guess you could do stop-motion in between the times of working on the CGI. I really meant the time that you have to put into it, as you must manually do everything in stop-motion, but with CGI just model, animate, then set 'er up and let 'er go.

But whatever happens, I'll be looking forward to your (Wingman_mn) movies!

(Disclaimer: I have not messed with CGI much, so my current thoughts may very well be wrong, if so, please kindly correct them. Thanks.)