Yah, it's not dying. The year to see three major stop-motion releases was...never, I'm pretty sure; certainly not in the last 20 years. Also, Laika's next film, the Box Trolls is set to release October of 2014, and Aardman has said they are working on three different feature length films at present. There are plenty of stop-motion features on the way.

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To those who are saying that as long as you don't show LEGO's logo or use their name... what do you think is printed on top of every stud and on basically every element? Also, Max Butcher wrote...

I hardily disagree with this statement. Brick Animations are most definitely a "legitimate art".

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What do you define as "legitimate" art (or "illegitimate" art for that matter, since if you define "legitimate" there must logically be some sort of opposite to set it apart from)?  The number of "mainstream" people it reaches after its unveiling?  According to that measure, modern "artists" who are highly controversial, such as, say, Tracy Emin or the guy (I can't remember his name) who took a glass of water and tried to claim it was an "oak tree" would be revered, and people like Vincent Van Gogh (who only ever sold one of his paintings in his entire lifetime) would be considered mere amateurs.

While there are many, many mediocre brickfilms out there, there are quite a few which I actually think are on par with and even better than some big-budget live-action films I've seen.  Just because something was made in someone's spare time using plastic figurines and building bricks doesn't instantly disqualify it from being considered artistic.  Granted, I think it would still be a stretch to claim brickfilms can be on par with other artistic mediums, but I think it's rather snobbish to say that this medium will never have the potential to become art.

Max Butcher, I feel like those are the most prominent examples of brickfilms that qualify as Art with a capital A. Some of your films, actually, are definitely on par with the examples you provided. Of course the technical execution doesn't compare, but the vision behind both are on the same level.

The very idea of animating with Lego people is a novelty at best so no matter how amazingly innovative your film is people will be like "hey let's go see the lego movie" instead of taking it seriously (or not seriously, depends on what the film is about.)
However brickfilming is one of the easiest options for those who have a limited budget, and I'd like to think that it gives a lot of practice directing because you have control over EVERYTHING. So in that way the skills you learn while brickfilming can translate over to like pro stuff but the film environment nowadays is such that a brickfilm won't get much farther than Youtube in the real world.

http://youtu.be/lPnY2NjSjrg
Im sure this is endorsed by Lego, but still considered "Hollywood." If this film does good, then there may possibly be more Lego films in the future. (Serriously though, I'm excited for this movie )

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