Re: Show off a Frame!
I started to finish up a short I worked on in the Spring. I'm kinda rushing it, but here's a frame.
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I started to finish up a short I worked on in the Spring. I'm kinda rushing it, but here's a frame.
The lighting seems a bit too warm for outside light, it might look a little nicer if you correct it a little bit.
Having filmed the majority of it months ago, I've finally got around to start editing Vampire Booze, including adding vfx and colour grading. I decided to grade it all to be far darker than in Vampire Owls, which I thought ended up being a bit too colourful compared to my original concept. I'm liking it so far. Some of the footage was a bit rushed when I shot it though, but I think I've managed to counter a lot of my production mistakes.
Hopefully during the summer, I'll have time to shoot the next episode, Vampire Egress, written by my good friend Chicken Bond, and I'll probably start scripting Vampire Karate and Vampire Furniture sometime soon as well, though the latter is dependent on me making a short non-vampire brickfilm first called A Woeful Wizard At Work...I digress.
I like the colour grading!
Yep it's planned that Rioforce will do some color correction, to try and neaten things up a bit. Lighting is still an area I need to master.
The background of the night and the rain in the window looks like it is more in focus than the subject, just for the sake of next time, blur that area out and you'll see how much better it'll look I like the set.
An unprocessed frame from a shot that took me two hours to animate. The police siren lights flash in the shot, which is why they are only half-lit in this frame. I will do color balancing and clean up reflections and visible sticky tack for the final shot.
Wow. Looks fantastic.
Love it Nathan! Are you using LifeLites for lighting certain areas of the set?
Thanks! Everything in that shot except for the main garage door is lit either by LifeLites or Brickstuff lights.
Thanks! Everything in that shot except for the main garage door is lit either by LifeLites or Brickstuff lights.
Huh, so how were you able to get the lights under the transparent pieces on top of the police casr? I ask because there doesn't appear to be much room to run wires into those pieces, and I myself am looking for ways to lights up certain pieces which cannot have wires connected to them. Are there certain types of lights that can fit under LEGO pieces and have little to no wire running into them?
This film is going to look fantastic. I love night-time shots like this.
Are there certain types of lights that can fit under LEGO pieces and have little to no wire running into them?
Yes, these are the LifeLites I used:
http://lifelites.com/products/3447
http://lifelites.com/products/3460
They are designed to fit under brick or plate. You still need to hide the wire, but the flat plastic part allows you to hide it under several plates first. Most of my wires are built into the cab of the cars, which you can't see because of very careful camera placement.
A bit of testing from my Darkness and Light entry...
IMG_5904 by Aaron Brickle, on Flickr
Last edited by If I Were A Minifig (June 20, 2015 (06:45pm))
Don't put Flickr links in IMG tags, it won't embed the image. You have to get the Flickr direct image link (I usually click the Share link right below the picture and copy the BB code). If you don't feel like doing that, simply pasting the link as a URL would work better.
As for the image itself, it's looking nice!
Nathan, that is everything I love about brickfilming stuffed into one single frame.
Amazing set, impeccable use of LEDs, and great scale and complexity.
I could gush over that frame for ages, so I'd better just sum it up by saying:
Everything is awesome!
Minifig, glad to see that fixed. Third edit's the charm, eh?
It's a basic frame, but one that leads to a lot of interesting questions.
I like how the slightly different shades of white give it a slightly weathered look, great use of that 'flaw' in the bricks.
I think the framing would be more effective if there wasn't that strip on the far right side. If you had two bars on the sides, and the one in the middle, I think the framing could evoke that exact, symmetrical, and imprisoning feel that being behind bars would give you. Plus, it could look pretty cool.
Here's a frame from a short I'm working on while work on HOO has to take a break for the summer.
Hope you like it!
It will be cool to see a Homemaker brickfilm. I need to get some of those figures; it's something I've always wanted to try. That's a neat use of the Chewbacca head, too.
Here's a frame from the short I'm working on.
My Mom got some new lights for photography work, so I used them while I was home for a week; and they give a really nice even light that gives much more of an outdoors than I've ever been able to achieve before. I'm really happy with the result.
A little snapshot of my new Lego series that I plan to start in at least 2 weeks
EDIT: OK, Maybe I'll wait a bit before starting
Last edited by The Motion Hero (July 28, 2015 (11:14pm))
It is really nice lighting, Backyard.
Here's a frame from my TMNT Stop Motion Series Intro sequence released about a week ago
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