Pritchard Studios wrote:What? No Magic Portal...?
Oh well, life happens I suppose.
It's disappointing for me as well. I wasn't involved in the initial communication and perhaps there was a misunderstanding, but as I said, he changed his mind about providing official clearance after originally indicating that he was on board. He also said that The Magic Portal is different from what we do because it's professional and properly funded; perhaps he didn't realize most of the people we interviewed for the documentary have done professional animation work, often with The LEGO Group's involvement, as has the entire producting team. My understanding is that he felt uncomfortable being associated with this community, which he sees as beneath him, and with "brickfilming," which he sees his work as quite separate from. So, I've come to the conclusion that this omission from the collection (and the documentary itself) is probably for the best.
Bleh, Internet drama. I don't like explaining this in detail, and perhaps miscommunication is to blame for the way things have turned out (Doug would know better than I, because I wasn't the one in correspondence here), but I thought I needed to provide an explanation given that we're backing out on something we said would be included in the collection, and that we made every effort to include.