*deep in thought* I [vaguely] remember watching Pawel Kamiski HWS's stuff and then I watched a bit of KG's and Mindgame's videos and then other ones that I can't remember. So, I thought to myself, "This looks easy." I made my first *brickfilm* back in January 2009 when I got a bunch of LEGOs for Christmas. I then built a small house with those bricks and found a minifig that came along with it. I borrowed (Borrowed? Pfft) my parents' camera and I took pictures of the minifig walking through the front door. It turned out to be a 3 second film that I only showed to my family because it sucked horribly. About a year and a half later, I made my first official brickfilm and uploaded it to my dad's YouTube account.

That one also sucked as well. So, yeah. That's my story.

I'm not entirely sure how I started, but I do remember finding this site somehow.

I remember seeing some brickfilms on YouTube, so maybe I searched "lego" on Google, found a YouTube video (probably a brickfilm), watched it, found some more, watched those.  One of those films could've had a link that led me here.  I somehow knew how to animate (I could've asked one of my parents or something), so I started to make films.  I found SmallTimeProduction's (known to YouTube as sillyplenta) Benny n' Lee films.  I remember I found this site again, because I noticed a Benny n' Lee film in the directory (I thought, "Hey, the guy that makes Benny n' Lee is on here?").  I looked in the directory for a while, until I hit a link on the home page that led to the thread about the BiM 2011 contest.  I wanted to enter, so I joined.  Little did I know how involved I would get with this site and how much I would learn about animation.

EDIT: Wait, now I remember I saw Nathan Wells's stuff around when I started brickfilming.  I think I learned how to animate through one of his tutorials.  I think it was his tutorials that got me into brickfilming.  I could've found this site through a link he made somewhere.

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Same here. I used a camcorder and did some stop-motion with my Lego star wars stuff. Then I stopped doing stop-motion for a few years until I got this book. Then I started a YouTube channel, and here I am now.

Here's my full story:

1. First off I saw "The Han Solo Affair" on Lego.com

2. I got interested in "brickfilming," and made a couple videos of me pulling along the Rebel Trooper transporter set and talking the troopers.

3. Then I lost interest, until I saw this, and soon got it for Christmas or my birthday. (I can't remember which).

4. I started making films at 15 fps, (I will post some sometime), but they weren't very good. (Lots of light flicker/out-of-focus/choppy movements/camera bumps).

5. My Mom found this contest on Mountain Rose Herbs, and had the idea of us making a brickfilm entry to it. We did, and you can see the result here.

6. About a year after that film, I was looking at The Brothers Brick (I think) and saw an ad for the BiM Tales of Yore contest. I got really excited because previously I had thought Brickfilms.com was the only brickfilming site, and I knew that was dead, so it was cool that there was an alive community that did the same hobby as me.

7. I tried to enter TOY, but failed,

8. and, now I'm here.

Most of y'all were inspired by senior brickfilmers in the Youtube age.  I was inspired by a classmate back when Brickfilms.com was an unknown message board and video uploading meant no calls for 24 hours on a 56k modem.  There were no preexisting brickfilmer that inspired me, just a classmate with a amateur recreation of The Matrix subway fight scene.

They didn't really impress me. They made me want to make ones better than yours, something I'm still striving for

By watching some of the "greats" as would be mentioned in the brickfilming world. I loved the fluid, moist, tasty, scrumptious animations. It provoked me to try and I was in love with my first video. Here it is, laugh away!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6F2zm8O32k
Upon gaining 200-300 subscribers I may release my early films, that actually turned out good.
It was just fascination that got me started. I hope to get back into wanting to make films like that again.

This really inspired me to start, a friend of mine made it when we were like eleven. I know, such and attractive film right? We kind of had a feud back then in the 5th grade, so I was like F*** you! I can do this ten times better than you did! Thus, Co0lwill was born

I saw a few old brickfilms on YouTube in 2007, including Spite Your Face ones, but some that grabbed me and taught me to go to brickfilms.com were Blunty3000's shorts.